Seemingly every weekend on the College Football on Fox pregame show fans and media watch former National Championship winning head coach Urban Meyer closely. With the rumors running rampant about the possibility of Meyer replacing his former offensive coordinator at Texas. It had made huge waves to the point that Tom Herman was asked to address the elephant in the room in his press conference earlier this week.
His comments made national headlines and even Joel Klatt discussed his answer with Colin Cowherd on Fox Sports Radio on Wednesday.
“Tom Herman came out and said it’s hurting us in recruiting that there are rumors about Urban Meyer in Texas. Hold on, one you don’t address that. Right, like I know Tom. Tom if you are listening to this, don’t address that. Go out there and win games, keep your job and you’ll be fine. I don’t quite understand, Texas A&M has really hit the recruiting trail hard and Lincoln Riley is an excellent recruiter.”
On the pregame show on Saturday morning, it appears that Meyer teased the fan base about the whole scenario. In a discussion about the best college towns, Matt Leinart brought up Austin, Texas. Brady Quinn then asked Meyer if that was the next town he was going to fix. Meaning the football team that plays in Austin, the Texas Longhorns. Meyer simply stated, “I don’t know yet.”
Just the mention of Austin has Urban blushing pic.twitter.com/XJerFKbggw
— QB3 (@HouseOfTakes) November 21, 2020
For a fan base that has been split by the football program, some have been looking for any sign that Urban Meyer might come to Texas. He might be teasing them here but there seems to be quite a bit of smoke. As they say, where there is smoke there is fire. The question becomes just how big is that fire?
It might not be a raging inferno yet but combine a loss to Iowa State with Quinn Ewers heading to Ohio State, it could be soon enough.