Cowherd Reports Urban is done in Columbus after this season
So, this should obviously be taken with the biggest grain of salt possible, but Colin Cowherd is reporting that two "trusted sources" are telling him that Urban Meyer will leave Ohio State after this season.
Cowherd is definitely an insufferable blowhard 99% of the time, but he hits fairly often on his "trusted sources." Either way, this is a delightful thing to see reported in mainstream media the week of The Game.
https://thespun.com/college-football/colin-cowherd-drops-bombshell-urba…
November 19th, 2018 at 2:55 PM ^
He's scum. It would be rather nice if OSU bent over backward to cover for him due to his winning, only for him to lose to UM, quit, and then leave them with a down recruiting class.
November 19th, 2018 at 2:55 PM ^
If true, all the more reason to wipe the floor with OSU on Saturday as a farewell to Urban.
November 19th, 2018 at 3:07 PM ^
Who's scum? Cowherd or Meyer? I'm confused
November 19th, 2018 at 3:12 PM ^
Could you, perhaps, have meant to respond to me?
If so, Urban = scum.
November 19th, 2018 at 4:37 PM ^
Yeah... sorry about that.
I lose my place sometimes in all the whitespace of this new site. Grrr.
November 19th, 2018 at 8:32 PM ^
I’m The Stig-
That is why indented replies are complete shit. This site needs to have quote replies.
November 20th, 2018 at 1:58 AM ^
This site is the worst message-board software I've ever seen. I love the content, but since the workings of the site are stupefyingly bad, I spend more time at 247sports (which also isn't great -- just at least sort of workable). Free message-board systems like Simple Machines SMF are enormously better than what either place has.
November 20th, 2018 at 8:56 AM ^
Winning cures everything so we haven't bitched in a while but yes this message board still kinda sucks.
November 19th, 2018 at 8:28 PM ^
It is interesting when Michigan fans use the word “scum” as I am so used to that term being directed at us that it bumps me to read it here
November 19th, 2018 at 3:34 PM ^
It would also be a bit of delicious irony for Baron Browning. He and his mother very pointedly asked Harbaugh how they could be sure he would be here for 4 years if BB (a 5* LB) committed to M. They asked because JH left Stanford while BB's brother was on the team there.
November 19th, 2018 at 4:14 PM ^
I remember that, osu has browning playing out of position too and has a new linebackers coach this year too
November 19th, 2018 at 4:56 PM ^
Sort of seems like a fair question
November 19th, 2018 at 5:37 PM ^
It is a perfectly fair question. And they probably asked it of Urban Meyer and probably received assurances that what is likely to happen here (him leaving) wouldn't happen.
November 19th, 2018 at 4:01 PM ^
Dear OSU Players and Fans: Urban has quit on you; it's time to quit on him.
November 19th, 2018 at 8:14 PM ^
This.
I'd said when he was hired that osu had made a deal with the devil. It was proved time and again that it was win at any cost and their fan base didn't care. But I knew it would be at a price and he would fracture the locker room just like he did at Florida. He is leaving the program damaged and they have no one to blame but themselves.
November 19th, 2018 at 4:33 PM ^
That may well happen, but this story is literally that cowherd got drunk with a couple guys who started speculating about what might happen...
November 19th, 2018 at 8:57 PM ^
Last chance for JH to hang a nice fat "L" on him if this is true. At least at Ohio anyway.
November 20th, 2018 at 3:24 PM ^
What do you mean “down” recruiting class?
They have the 3rd ranked class in terms of average recruit rank. 7 of their 15 commits are top 150 guys, while Michigan has 5 such players.
Its a small class. Their overall ranking is a quantity issue, not a quality issue. It’s still an extremely talented class. I wouldn’t call it “down” at all. In terms of talent it’s a top 5 class.
November 19th, 2018 at 2:55 PM ^
Apologies, link didn't work in OP:
https://thespun.com/college-football/colin-cowherd-drops-bombshell-urban-meyer-report
November 19th, 2018 at 2:57 PM ^
But did he guarantee it?
November 19th, 2018 at 2:57 PM ^
I believe it.
As soon as odds were put out there and you could win a decent amount of money on betting that Urban Meyer would be the HC of OSU next year, they knew something...
If you bet $100 that Harbaugh would be our HC next year, you probably win $1
https://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/10/25/odds-already-out-o…
November 19th, 2018 at 2:58 PM ^
So long... don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
November 19th, 2018 at 2:59 PM ^
Dude looks done. If he was acting and feeling that way at Maryland, he might shit his pants Saturday.
November 19th, 2018 at 3:30 PM ^
I think it's more "acting" than "feeling" on the side of Meyer, given his rocky relationship with the truth. Dude is just setting up for his next "health problem" departure.
November 19th, 2018 at 4:33 PM ^
His sideline episodes this year have all been after his team was doing really poorly, not before.
November 19th, 2018 at 4:10 PM ^
Maybe he'll go into the locker room and change pants like Joe Paterno!
November 19th, 2018 at 3:28 PM ^
These are great (as a total rock hound)! I'm curious what I'm missing, though, with the relevance...
November 19th, 2018 at 3:36 PM ^
there's Na(thing) Cl(aimed) to be relevant in this picture.
November 19th, 2018 at 3:43 PM ^
Ah. That's what threw me. That's not NaCl, it's SiO2...
November 19th, 2018 at 3:46 PM ^
And we've reached "The Michigan Difference" portion of this thread
November 19th, 2018 at 3:48 PM ^
LOL. Yep! Too funny...
November 19th, 2018 at 4:44 PM ^
Aren't you an attorney? You're bucking long-standing stereotypes by trotting out chemistry references, Mister.
November 19th, 2018 at 3:39 PM ^
These illustrate the size of the grains of salt necessary when Cowherd is involved.
November 19th, 2018 at 10:29 PM ^
Aren't they also crystal balls?
November 19th, 2018 at 2:59 PM ^
Don’t need an insider, just look at his sideline behavior. It’s either real, which means that dude needs to retire ASAP before he kills himself. Or it’s fake and he’s settting everyone up and giving himself an out as no public figures are going to question him too much about it as health issues are a (rightfully) touchy subject.
November 19th, 2018 at 3:00 PM ^
Normally I would say this is 100% BS. But I've always felt like the shelf life of Meyer was short, and that he would bail at the first signs of trouble. His departure from Florida is still among the oddest I've ever seen.
November 19th, 2018 at 3:00 PM ^
Wow it's only Monday and already the hype meter is cranked up to 11. Think there will be a few eyeballs fixed on this game on Saturday?
November 19th, 2018 at 3:01 PM ^
Urban is under contract until like 2023. He can't just quit, unless OSU allows him out of his contract. That's the point of a contract.
I'll believe it when I see it. Cowherd talks out his ass most of the time. Did the same thing with Michigan's last coaching search
November 19th, 2018 at 3:06 PM ^
Urban signed a 6-year extension worth about $20 million at Florida in 2007, then quit three years later, so there's some precedent here. USC will just pick up the tab in a year or two if he still owes a big chunk of money to OSU.
November 19th, 2018 at 3:19 PM ^
The only way he would owe OSU money would be if he bought out his contract to leave for another job. If he just quits, he's out.
November 19th, 2018 at 4:31 PM ^
Is it possible that Drake and other higher-ups wanted him out after the Zach Smith debacle, but didn't want to pay the buyout, and would rather make things so uncomfortable for him that he quits?
November 19th, 2018 at 5:22 PM ^
Well, it seems like Drake was the only guy in the room who wanted to punish him at all for Zach Smith, so I'd doubt it.
I do think Meyer is surprised that no one's buying his side of the story and he's hurt by it.
November 19th, 2018 at 3:07 PM ^
Pretty sure that’s not how it works. Sounds like you’re talking about slavery lol
November 19th, 2018 at 3:09 PM ^
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think it works that way. He could "Retire" or resign any time. OSU could probably prohibit him from working anywhere else until his contract expires if they wanted to, and of course he wouldn't get paid. I would guess they would come to a mutual agreement in that case-or possibly already have.
On a side note, I would be thrilled to see him leave. He's a crap human being, but a great college football coach.
November 19th, 2018 at 3:09 PM ^
Sure he can. There's no way the contract doesn't have anything in it about retirement.
November 19th, 2018 at 3:13 PM ^
Urban is under contract until like 2023. He can't just quit, unless OSU allows him out of his contract. That's the point of a contract.
Of course he can quit. He's not the property of OSU. The contract just means that you can't quit and still get paid.
November 19th, 2018 at 3:23 PM ^
He can't quit without paying OSU. He could "retire"...if there's a clause for that in his contract.
Same reason other schools are forced to pay the coach's remaining contract if he goes to another school.
November 19th, 2018 at 3:28 PM ^
He can't quit without paying OSU.
This is entirely different from "he can't just quit". He can quit whenever he wants. There might be an enforceable penalty, but he's not an indentured servant.