Do you ever sit and wonder what might have been in regards to Urban Meyer and Notre Dame?
The now NFL head coach won a pair of national championships at Florida before winning a third at Ohio State and is now the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
It’s easy to think about what might have been after Meyer left his post as Notre Dame’s wide receivers coach following the 2000 season. But how close was Meyer to staying in South Bend for another year and possibly changing the course of college football for the last two decades?
If it wasn’t for Lou Holtz then who knows what might have happened.
Here is what Meyer had to say about being hesitant to take the Bowling Green job after the 2000 season as he joined Cris Collinsworth on “The Cris Collinsworth Podcast featuring Richard Sherman”
How Urban Meyer got his first HC job at Bowling Green thanks to Lou Holtz 😂
pic.twitter.com/rBaZiNeBug— PFF (@PFF) May 15, 2021
What a butterfly effect type of move.
Say Meyer doesn’t leave – a ton of questions immediately come to mind for Notre Dame, let alone all of college football:
- Is the 2001 squad as awful as they were and does Bob Davie get fired?
- If not, is Meyer groomed to be Davie’s eventual replacement?
- Could we have never had to have known a world where Tyrone Willingham or Charlie Weis were never Notre Dame’s head coaches?
- Does Tim Tebow end up at Florida?
- And only about 4,328 more questions…