Urban Meyer:Bandwagon Coach

Shortly after Urban Meyer, coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes, won what the analysts say is the most "legitimate" National Championship of our time (insert eye roll), everyone i.e.- Kirk Herbstreit, began saying that Meyer had the best winning percentage of any coach since World War II. Yeah? 

HOLD ON PLAYA.
I don't doubt those numbers, but is winning the only thing that matters when we are speaking about coaches? Or, how many coaching vacancies has one filled and how many years do they stay?
Let's start with the first question: Is winning the only thing? Well no. It's not the only thing, but it sure doesn't hurt. Bill Parcells once said in regards to Lawrence Taylor, my job as a coach is to make men better players and better men. Now I'm paraphrasing, but can we say that's what Urban Meyer does? Ahem. Aaron Hernandez. He's allegedly killed how many people? Reportedly, Urban couldn't wait to get rid of him. Percy Harvin. Percy didn't like doing stairs to warm-up during practice, so Meyer changed warm-ups to shooting hoops. Really? Why is Braxton Miller "flirting" with Jimbo Fisher and FSU football?! Because he knows he's knows he's not in a pro style offense at OSU. He wants to go first round like all of Jimbo's QBs. I'm not saying they are wildly successful after that, but they go 1st round.  Tim Tebow was perfect as far as off the field. Arguably, Meyer could've done some things to help with his mechanics but chose not to because he was so good at the college level. However, that hurt him on a professional level. Those are the obvious examples.
Let's talk about how many places Meyer has been a head coach and how long he was there:
Bowling Green: 2001-2002
Utah: 2003-2004
Florida: 2005-2010

















Ohio State: 2012-present


As you can see, he hasn't been anywhere over 5 years. His worst season record as a head coach came in his last year at Florida and without Tim Tebow, 8-5. Suddenly he had family and health concerns and needed to leave Florida. Then 10 months later, he was suddenly swooped up by Ohio State. If I was an Ohio State fan, I would be waiting for the other shoe to drop. Just know, Urban Meyer is leaving sooner rather than later. Urban Meyer is a Bandwagon Coach.

"You can say I'm just a Hater,

But I'm not the only one.

One day, 

Ohio State fans,

 you'll join us,

And the football world 

Will be as one."

MDK In The House

Rich's Idea

My brother Rich is incredibly innovative. Not in the gadgety way. Most people are thinking about right now or maybe even tomorrow. Rich is thinking about 3 months and 3 years from now.
Rewind to last Wednesday. I open my email to find a Bleacher Report that says a Seminole player was arrested for a non-moving violation and driving with a suspended license. From what I read these players eat live and breath together and the coaches are guiding them. My brother says "You're telling me there is no fail safe to let you know when one of your players has a suspended license? They should have something that sends out an alert or something" Players have special tutors (that was a disaster several years ago), special dorms, special eating arrangements, but there is no alarm that goes off when one has a driver's license issue? You've been in these kids homes recruiting them and you promise to take care of their son but you don't know about their "records". I say they hire somebody to comb records and make reasonably sure you are educated in these kids backgrounds. Do you know what Bill "the Tuna" Parcells says about Lawrence Taylor? He made Lawrence a better player but failed at making him a greater man. Well, it starts in college. Perhaps there is some sort of NCAA rule against it. I don't know. But what I do know is that FSU and UF (and from what I hear Penn State, those guys really love to be "detained") could use some brainstorming on the idea. Credit goes to Rich.