Here’s the deal on this Urban Meyer to Texas thing
Look, I could be wrong here. It wouldn’t be the first time a coach that couldn’t quite get the football out of his blood came out of retirement to scratch the competitive itch again. Heck, it wouldn’t be the first time Meyer did it.
And yeah, despite how financially secure and in love with family Meyer is, the amount of money being rumored is enough to have anyone think about the “what-ifs” that go with having more Benjamins than you or I will ever see in our lifetime tossed in your direction.
There’s also a part of me that would like to see the marriage between Texas and Meyer. College football is more entertaining with him on the sidelines and I have little doubt he would make the Longhorns a national threat again in a short amount of time. If Meyer was successful at Ohio State, he can probably do similar things in Austin. Texas and Ohio State are close to the same program with the same resources, tradition, and recruiting ability.
But, Meyer has accomplished all he can as a college football coach. He’s won conference titles, he’s won national titles, he’s had a Heisman winner, and then some. There’s really nothing left to accomplish other than missing the game. If that trumps everything else, then you’ll see these rumors come to fruition.
With everything packaged up and rolled out for inspection though, there are a lot more negatives to Meyer giving it one more try just because he misses coaching. That’s what it would boil down to.
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