This is the first article I've read that questions "how long the 'retirement' will last". Won't the coach take some time to deal with his real health issues, and then "feeling reinvigorated", decide to coach again at one of the top tier programs that will come begging.
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Maybe Tressel can hire Meyer at Youngstown State Then,they can have a gabvest about the greatest generation of coaches who made mucho bucks going down the rabbit hole and coming out with a bunch of money and take a knee and pray.
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The Boston Globe's excellent investigative piece about Aaron Hernandez and the time he played for Urban Meyer at the Univ of Florida is very powerful and very incriminating. Left me with strong impression that Urban Meyer cares far more about winning than values and virtue. here's the piece: https://bit.ly/2BT5jLN
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Meyer should seek the Packer job so he can work in an adult environment where he will not be held responsible for the bad domestic non-work related behavior of adult male employees who work for him. If Meyer thinks OSU acted cravenly when it caved into the hysteria of the media-driven #MeToo circus and threw him under the bus, he is correct, in my opinion.
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Good riddance to bad rubbish. This man has repeatedly demonstrated his name does not belong in close proximity to the word “leader”. The institutions that tolerate and even profit from his misdeeds are no better.
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This latest "the" Ohio State University affair has produced in me increased disenchantment with how college sports, especially football, has overwhelmed and over shadows the true mission of higher education. When the Meyer affair became public, one read of the substantial raises Meyer gave to the accused assistant--$50K and more over a period of years. The sums involved in big time college football (and basketball for that matter) stagger the imagination. One can understand why so many of us become jaded and disgusted with the whole thing. Enough.
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Hopefully none of the football 'gods' will never hire oscar meyer again...
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Good article, with, for the most part, reasonable inferences and speculations.
However the final paragraph is dubious. First of all, anyone with any knowledge of the history of the OSU Athletic Department and indeed the university's administration will certainly chuckle at the author's reference to the university's "moral vision of itself." In addition, that the author pretty much dismisses Meyer's brain cyst as little more than a convenient pretext or cover-up for the real reasons behind his departure needs supportive evidence and is at least uncharitable if not downright snarky.
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Given all that we know about the long-term physical costs of just playing football, why is anyone surprised that the cheerleaders for the sport, the coaches, are hypocrites? After watching him coax 19-year-olds to risk permanent damage to their health so he can beat Michigan, we should consider Meyer's lying as one of the Least of his transgressions.
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He should have been dismissed rather than allow to continue coaching.
The only honorable action in this situation was the Ohio State trustee who resigned because the trustee thought Coach Meyer's punishment was too soft.
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Urban Meyer was merely the latest example of sports dominating a university. The Ohio State University, in recent memory, has fired two basketball coaches, one football coach, the band leader and the University President all for various infractions. This doesn’t even include more recent scandals with the swimming, wrestling, and football program. It’s hard to watch a university give up its integrity for sports victories.
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@Tod Just my opinion, but effectively he was dismissed by the school but allowed to resign to save face. Just a few days earlier he made it clear that he was coaching in 2019 and that while his successor was outstanding, his time had not yet arrived. Then he suddenly reverses course and decides to quit? I don't buy it.
He'll be back coaching again by 2020. I have no doubt about it. He is too sharp, too young to sit there and watch his kids play sports like he said when he quit at UF.
I have no doubt he probably has some health issues, but its hard to take him seriously when each year he claimed he's beaten them back with a different approach..less hours, more delegation etc.. Then a loss occurs and guess what..his health issues again flare up.
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