Meyer agrees to OSU job-accepts in principle to 7-year, $40 million contract

[CF DolFan]

http://www.clickorlando.com/sports/Source-Meyer-agrees-to-OSU-job/-/1636890/4810492/-/5bkcl4/-/index.html

I didn't think he would return to coaching but obviously I was wrong.


ORLANDO, Fla. - Sources told Local 6 that former University of Florida head coach Urban Meyer has agreed in principle to become the next head coach of Ohio State University, and will be introduced in the coming days.

According to Sports Director David Pingalore's sources, Meyer has agreed to a seven-year, $40 million deal.

On Monday, Meyer told the Gainesville Sun that he felt good enough mentally and physically to return to coaching, but there had been no interview with Ohio State.

 
Sources told Pingalore that Meyer will bring several current UF assistant coaches with him to Columbus, including D.J. Durkin, the Gators' linebackers coach, who will be the OSU defensive coordinate.

Mickey Marotti, the strength coach at UF, will also join Meyer and become OSU's Director of Football Operations, according to sources.

Luke Fickell, who is the interim head coach at OSU, will stay on as an assistant head coach, said sources.

Meyer stepped down as the Gators' head coach in 2010, citing health concerns

[Phishfan]

Is it just me or has anyone else had this shiny image of Meyer get tarnished. It started with his first retirement that lasted about a day. Then it culminated with him saying he wanted to be with his family, retired again, took a job with ESPN that kept him away from his family only to have his daughter tweet that ESPN should give her father back.

I have no respect for the guy and I once considered him a great coach (this predated U of F) and a good man.

Meyer is denying this claim by the way so we will see how it unfolds.

[Dave Gray]

I wonder what his incentive is?  A huge payout?

He was a God at Florida.  Why leave and roll the dice with Ohio State?  I guess that the Big10 is a pretty big fraud, so he'll probably be able to go and do pretty well there without having to build.

[Landshark]

I wonder what his incentive is?  A huge payout?

He was a God at Florida.  Why leave and roll the dice with Ohio State?  I guess that the Big10 is a pretty big fraud, so he'll probably be able to go and do pretty well there without having to build.

He's from that area so it doesn't surprise me that he will go coach there.  I'm just wondering how that offense of his is going to be able to operate on frozen tundra.

[AZ Fins Fan 55]

Meyer is denying this claim by the way so we will see how it unfolds.

Yeah so did $aban when it came out he was going to Alabama......how did that unfold. LOL

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

I have no respect for the guy and I once considered him a great coach (this predated U of F) and a good man.

He is not a good man.  Never was.  He is a great coach.  

Guess what none of them are.  Every single successful NFL coach and major college program coach has choose to put his career and football ahead of his wife and kids.  Every single one of them.  

Don Shula isn't in the hall of fame of husbands, he is in the football hall of fame.  And part of the reason he is there is he put the Dolphin's before his wife while she was dying of cancer.  There isn't a single NFL coach I admire as human being.  Not a single one I would want as a father.  

I admire Shula and Belichick for their skills as a football coach, but neither is good man.  

Meyer was never good man.  He is still a great coach.  

[CF DolFan]

^^^^ Tony Dungy is both.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

^^^^ Tony Dungy is both.

A man who chooses to coach an NFL team in Indy while his family lives in Tampa and then even after his son commits suicide decides that coaching the Colts is more important then living with his remaining living children is not in my book a good father, a good husband or a good man.

[CF DolFan]

^^^^ there is much more to it than that.  Everything is not cut and dry ... black and white. There are variables in every person's life that defines right and wrong and they are not equal. I know of families that choose to live that way for numerous reasons.  Specifically I know of a family where father and son spend the week in Texas and mother stays here to raise the other kids but this fits what they are trying to do. Not my cup of tea but who are we to say that isn't being a good father? Especially in today's market there are more commuters than ever before. My wife works with several people in the mortgage industry that work here and live elsewhere because there are no jobs back home.

[Dave Gray]

I think the point is that to be successful at coaching in the NFL, you have to put that job as the first thing in your life.  No human being has the ability to do that job well, while still having the time to put towards the other things.  ...and that's fine.  I'm not judging.

[Phishfan]

I think it is a bunch of bunk personally. Ole Rex had plenty of time to foot worship all over the Internet  .

[Tenshot13]

You are all forgetting that said coach has pretty much financially set his GREAT grandkids for life. 

[CF DolFan]

I'm too lazy to post a link but his coaching staff is growing. For a man with no coaching job he is pretty busy acting like it.

[jtex316]

For the record, Jim Caldwell coached the Colts a week (or two) after Dungy's son committed suicide as Tony spent time with his family during that time.