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This post covers my feelings on UFM pretty damn well. The phrase "ruthless winner" is exactly what my opinion of him was coming in and hell, I was excited for it. I loved JT to death, but thought he was a little too nice at times. Much to my surprise, Urban knocked it out of the park off the field and was very committed to the personal development of his players. I could go on and on, and list example after example, but it was self-evident in the overall body of results. When you coach 100+ players a year and have one of the biggest staffs in the country, there are going to be some individuals that don't represent you well. But I honestly think that Urban did an outstanding job here and legitimately cared about those around him. I am not connected enough to say I know that to be a fact, but it is my honest opinion. I think Urban made some mistakes here. He did. But I will think of him as one of the greatest coaches we have had, hands down, and will miss him quite a bit. I hope he stays in Columbus and becomes our next AD...I personally don't see him doing that with his career trajectory, but I truly hope he does.
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cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
I would say that this opinion is on target for most of us on the site including me and, I believe, Ord. At the same time,I often get the feeling that to question the decisions/actions of Woody, Tress, or Urban brings out a quick negative reaction. That's something we are quick to observe on BWI and goBlowblog, but seem to accept here.
My fear in Urban's first couple of years, was that in pushing to grab the best athletes available he would get the school in the NCAA's sights again, or that they'd have more problem children on their hands - thinking Pryor. That hasn't happened.
As for Urban becoming the AD, I'd have to believe that the ZS mess would remain uppermost in the mind of the BOT and Drake or anyone else who becomes president. Given the working relationship and the time commitment a coaching staff puts into a Div 1 football program, and the intimate knowledge they pick up of each other inside and outside the program, I can't believe that Urban didn't see warning signs in ZS's behavior. People just don't suddenly go off the tracks without leaving a trail of smaller incidents behind.
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https://www.toledoblade.com/sports/...hange-urban-meyer-the-man/stories/20181209030
Fame, success did little to change Urban Meyer the man
MATT MARKEY
Blade Outdoors Editor
[email protected]
DEC 10, 2018
9:57 AM
BOWLING GREEN — It was 16 years ago, almost to the day, that I spoke with my friend Tim Dunn here about the news that the young and dynamic head football coach at the university would be leaving to take a job in Utah.
While many in the town and the Bowling Green State University community were sad, angry, or disappointed that Urban Meyer, who had led a remarkable resurgence in the Falcon football program in his first job as a head coach, was departing, Dunn took a much more pragmatic, big-picture perspective on things.
Dunn, a Bowling Green businessman and prominent Falcon booster, said: “That guy is a national championship just waiting to happen.” Well, Tim was right, and Tim also was wrong.
Meyer did win a college football national championship in 2006 while leading the University of Florida, but he went on to win two more in his career, so it turned out that Tim’s very bold prediction was not quite bold enough.
When Meyer announced early last week that, prodded by health concerns associated with a cyst attached to his brain, he would leave the coaching ranks following his Ohio State team’s Rose Bowl game against Washington, some decided it was time to pick apart his legacy. He has gone 82-9 in seven seasons as the head coach in Columbus, and he beat rival Michigan every time he faced the Wolverines. Over his head-coaching career, Meyer won more than 85 percent of his games, including taking a Bowling Green team that had won just two games the previous year and going 17-6 in two seasons with the Falcons.
His record has been lauded, his health problems well-documented, and his flaws analyzed, magnified, and criticized ad nauseum. He wore the alpha headset, so all of that comes with the territory, but the self-important experts really know little about the man, the father, the husband, and the grandfather that is also named Urban Meyer.
In the years since he left Bowling Green, our periodic conversations were never about football, coaching, recruiting, or his golf game. He always talked about his wife, his children, and how he acknowledged daily that the Good Lord had been especially kind to this kid from Ohio named after a pope. Like any college coach should do, he said prayers of thanks every day for his wife, Shelley, since she did 95 percent of the parenting, 100 percent of the home management while he worked, and was likely the best unofficial assistant coach/recruiter in the country.
He shaved off time here and there to take in his children’s sporting events, and once during halftime of her fifth-grade CYO basketball game, his oldest daughter Nicki got a dose of the ultra-competitive and aggressive approach favored by her dad, who said he’d give her “twenty bucks” if she fouled out. She didn’t, but she led her team to victory, nonetheless.
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Fame, success did little to change Urban Meyer the man
MATT MARKEY
Blade Outdoors Editor
[email protected]
DEC 10, 2018
9:57 AM
BOWLING GREEN — It was 16 years ago, almost to the day, that I spoke with my friend Tim Dunn here about the news that the young and dynamic head football coach at the university would be leaving to take a job in Utah.
While many in the town and the Bowling Green State University community were sad, angry, or disappointed that Urban Meyer, who had led a remarkable resurgence in the Falcon football program in his first job as a head coach, was departing, Dunn took a much more pragmatic, big-picture perspective on things.
Dunn, a Bowling Green businessman and prominent Falcon booster, said: “That guy is a national championship just waiting to happen.” Well, Tim was right, and Tim also was wrong.
Meyer did win a college football national championship in 2006 while leading the University of Florida, but he went on to win two more in his career, so it turned out that Tim’s very bold prediction was not quite bold enough.
When Meyer announced early last week that, prodded by health concerns associated with a cyst attached to his brain, he would leave the coaching ranks following his Ohio State team’s Rose Bowl game against Washington, some decided it was time to pick apart his legacy. He has gone 82-9 in seven seasons as the head coach in Columbus, and he beat rival Michigan every time he faced the Wolverines. Over his head-coaching career, Meyer won more than 85 percent of his games, including taking a Bowling Green team that had won just two games the previous year and going 17-6 in two seasons with the Falcons.
His record has been lauded, his health problems well-documented, and his flaws analyzed, magnified, and criticized ad nauseum. He wore the alpha headset, so all of that comes with the territory, but the self-important experts really know little about the man, the father, the husband, and the grandfather that is also named Urban Meyer.
In the years since he left Bowling Green, our periodic conversations were never about football, coaching, recruiting, or his golf game. He always talked about his wife, his children, and how he acknowledged daily that the Good Lord had been especially kind to this kid from Ohio named after a pope. Like any college coach should do, he said prayers of thanks every day for his wife, Shelley, since she did 95 percent of the parenting, 100 percent of the home management while he worked, and was likely the best unofficial assistant coach/recruiter in the country.
He shaved off time here and there to take in his children’s sporting events, and once during halftime of her fifth-grade CYO basketball game, his oldest daughter Nicki got a dose of the ultra-competitive and aggressive approach favored by her dad, who said he’d give her “twenty bucks” if she fouled out. She didn’t, but she led her team to victory, nonetheless.
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I'm willing to thank BestBuckeye for posting that same link on Sunday morning. He just didn't paste in part of the article that shows not everybody at The Toledo Blade hates the Buckeyes.
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