Urban Meyer is said to be asking for $12 mill per year
To go pro. That (depending on where you look) would make him the highest paid coach in the NFL. Belichick makes either $11 or $12 mill per yr.
January 5th, 2021 at 5:04 AM ^
I'll pitch in on the GoFundMe to get $12MM to bring him to UM.
January 5th, 2021 at 7:20 AM ^
this, all day!!!!
January 5th, 2021 at 1:26 PM ^
Seriously? You would want Urban as your coach? Yes, he will get you into the play-offs and W's over Ohio State but at the cost of your soul. Don't forget, Florida doesn't want him back and a good portion of the Ohio State people feel the same way.
January 5th, 2021 at 1:32 PM ^
I'll worry about my soul, Urbz can worry about the Ws!
January 5th, 2021 at 7:23 AM ^
Maybe they’ll just raise the ticket prices just a little bit to $400/game
January 5th, 2021 at 10:15 AM ^
Too much push back from alumni on that. They'll raise tuition to cover the increase.
January 5th, 2021 at 9:27 AM ^
I said a while ago If we change coaches we should shoot for the best and go after Urban and Dabo and offer them ridiculous money.
They might both say no but you never know unless you ask and offering more then 10 million a year would at least get them to listen
January 5th, 2021 at 10:04 AM ^
So do like Texas, look stupid, and end up with Sark?
January 5th, 2021 at 11:27 AM ^
Well no other established coach would probably coach for this fan base.
I mean Urbz is already mostly hated by UofM fans so when he goes 9-3 and loses to OSU it won't be that much different.
A respected coach who sees how the fans turned on Harbaugh isn't coming here, since only getting to the playoffs will save him from the wrath of those who expect too much and think too little.
January 5th, 2021 at 12:14 PM ^
SIX YEARS. And Harbaugh doesn't have even one season with just one loss.
3-3 vs MSU
No shared B1G championship
No big bowl win
Nothing
At Michigan. (Notice I am even ignoring the 0-5 vs OSU). And you complain about the fans??
Wow! I think a coach WOULD come here if he thought there were enough fans like you.
January 5th, 2021 at 12:45 PM ^
Hey thanks for proving my point!
Last one loss season before Harbaugh showed up?
17 years!
Before Harbaugh arrived, last seven vs MSU
1-6!
b4 Harb last 11 vs OSU
1-10
You live in delusion.
Harbaugh may have slammed his head into his ceiling and gone numb but he has pulled the program out of the worst stretch the program ever had.
He deserves a "thanks but not enough" and to be shown the door with some respect, but instead you clowns act like delusion toddlers that didn't get what they wanted.
January 5th, 2021 at 2:58 PM ^
I don't see that as delusion. He failed here. It's obvious and it's over.
I like the 'thanks but not enough' line and always with respect but any fanbase would turn on any coach in this situation. That's normal. Time to go.
Oh, and don't forget he hasn't won a game as an underdog! How is that possible? 0-11 0-12?
Six years ago I would have said that must be some alternate universe.
January 5th, 2021 at 3:18 PM ^
"I don't see that as delusion. He failed here"
Geeesuss! He didn't fail!
He literally doubled the win total the first year he was here and won on average 2 games more each year than his predecessors.
How many more games did Campbell win his first year? O right none.
Fickell? O right none.
Is that enough to justify his salary? No!
Is it a success? Yes!
And I agree with you, even more than the "QB whisperer" bullshit which I never really believed, I was sure, because of what Harbaugh did to USC at Stanford, that the team was good for a big upset or two.
And other than OSU '16 he never did :)
January 5th, 2021 at 12:39 PM ^
I wouldn't say the Michigan job gets more scrutiny than a lot of places. Some of those fan bases are truly insane. And you should follow British soccer. Those fans grab the pitchforks after one loss.
January 5th, 2021 at 12:55 PM ^
Exactly!
The fact that you can compare the "crazy" of futbol, being played by grown men as professionals to this amateur sport shows how fuckin psycho this Harbaugh hate is.
January 5th, 2021 at 1:34 PM ^
Give me a break with this shit, an Alabama fan killed another Alabama fan because they weren't upset enough about a loss. Michigan fans expecting the ceiling to be higher than mediocre are not crazy.
January 5th, 2021 at 1:43 PM ^
So, being a better fan than a murderous Alabama idiot is enough for you?
Talk about supporting mediocrity.
And Michigan fans are "crazy" because they "hate" Harbaugh even though he turned the program around.
Plus it seems some are too stupid to understand what mediocre is.
January 5th, 2021 at 1:46 PM ^
Your immediate jump to lashing out, calling me names, and the huge man of straw you built out of what I said suggest you know you're full of shit too.
January 5th, 2021 at 1:48 PM ^
Where did I call YOU a name?
January 5th, 2021 at 2:04 PM ^
"Plus it seems some are too stupid to understand what mediocre is."
You're really going to hide behind some here? Don't worry I'm not going to tell on you.
January 5th, 2021 at 2:09 PM ^
So, you admit you don't understand what mediocre means?
Cool!
Thought this was gonna be a challenge.
January 5th, 2021 at 1:57 PM ^
Straw man 101:
Someone says it's "psycho" to hate a former player, who has turned around the program from less than mediocre to mediocre, and the response is:
"At least I didn't kill anybody."
Bet you have a well mulched garden.
lol
January 5th, 2021 at 2:07 PM ^
LOL. More lashing out, you're funny.
"At least I didn't kill anybody."
Did the voices in your head say that because I didn't?
January 5th, 2021 at 2:16 PM ^
"an Alabama fan killed another Alabama fan because they weren't upset enough about a loss"
You've accused me twice of lashing out, but if I were to "lash out" it would be more like:
No, the voices in my head are telling me anybody with the username "username" is a complete idiot and what's worse he didn't even win that since he's only the third.
See the difference?
January 5th, 2021 at 2:29 PM ^
"At least I didn't kill anybody." and "an Alabama fan killed another Alabama fan because they weren't upset enough about a loss"
Those mean the same thing to you and I'm the idiot?
I'm really really sorry I didn't agree with you that Michigan fans are the worst even though that is an objectively untrue statement. You are so big and manly and smart, I mean it's even right in your name, and calling people idiots on the internet over something that doesn't matter at all is definitive proof of such. Please most high keyboard warrior can you find it in your heart to forgive me? And one day teach me how to be such a winner like yourself? Can I too one day get this angry defending a guy who doesn't even know I exist? Boy that would be swell, I hope so.
January 5th, 2021 at 2:34 PM ^
Yes, No, No, No
January 5th, 2021 at 12:08 PM ^
Are y’all serious? Urban Meyer enabled domestic violence. Are we talking about a different Urban Meyer?
January 5th, 2021 at 12:25 PM ^
It’s amazing to me how people will set their morals aside so easily. It’s just football. I’ll burn the Big House to the ground before I let Urban turn it into what he had going at Florida and the blind eye to domestic violence
January 5th, 2021 at 12:33 PM ^
If he's cleared to coach in the NFL or be on FOX's football show, he's clean enough to coach at Michigan.
January 5th, 2021 at 2:30 PM ^
Yeah I can't wait for the coach that focuses recruiting on juvenile detention centers, we're bound to get some real killer talent!
(cough*cough Aaron Hernandez)
Now THAT is a fucking strawman!
January 5th, 2021 at 2:15 PM ^
The ethics (or lack of) he demonstrated in the Zach Smith episode make me say no. Sorry if this comes across as self-righteous but his decisions and then consistent lying afterward disqualifies him to be the highest paid and highest profile employee of my alma mater in my mind.
January 5th, 2021 at 5:06 AM ^
Nothing will cure those stress and anxiety issues more than being the highest paid coach in the NFL, with zero pro experience, and being tasked with turning around a bottom dwelling team!
January 5th, 2021 at 6:34 AM ^
The thought of it gives me a headache! I need some pizza.
January 5th, 2021 at 7:58 AM ^
Just ignore those headaches, man. Better yet - tell people you never were aware of them even though it could physically and mentally scar you for life. Lie about it if you have to.
January 5th, 2021 at 10:26 AM ^
No headaches when you don't need to create a bag system to pay players under the table or cover up for on campus assaults and murders. Will be interesting to see him operate on an equal playing field.
January 5th, 2021 at 5:07 AM ^
Being a head coach is a headache compared to the cushy job of being a TV analyst. Figure has to be big to make sense.
January 5th, 2021 at 11:56 AM ^
And the general understanding is that pro coaches, with smaller squads and no off-season recruiting visits, work far less than college coaches.
Pro coaches purportedly actually get a real break off-season.
January 5th, 2021 at 5:18 AM ^
Money well spent if you win however if I was a NFL owner why take a chance on Urban when you have Jim Harbaugh available who has had NFL success already. For the sake of U-M and our future, hire Jim Harbaugh and set us free!!
Don't forget how the Saban NFL experiment went. Jim has proven he is a NFL guy and college football is not his bag anymore.
January 5th, 2021 at 9:42 AM ^
Brilliant, guy. You should start a blog or something.
January 5th, 2021 at 12:21 PM ^
Saban's NFL record gets brought up a lot as being some disaster. It wasn't. 9-7 then 6-10. They signed Daunte Culpepper in the offseason instead of Drew Brees. It's not crazy to think he could still be coaching in the NFL and an elite level.
January 5th, 2021 at 12:50 PM ^
Culpepper didn't even play most of the season; Joey Harrington started the bulk of the games. The year before when they went 9-7 Gus Frerotte had been their starter.
Having said that, I think Saban pretty clearly saw that at Alabama he could get the talent needed to do better than most of his peers. NFL coaches generally have much less control over getting talent than their college peers do, and even if an NFL coach is handling football personnel there are limits to what they can do because of the draft, free agency and the salary cap.
Urban Meyer has had the same advantage at his last two college stops. If he can run a system that works at the NFL level, I don't see why he can't be successful. At the same time, he's just not going to have the huge talent advantage he had at Florida and Ohio State.
Could be fun to watch, especially if he's driven from Jacksonville by a mob with torches and pitchforks.
January 5th, 2021 at 5:19 AM ^
Ego! It’s the only way he can one up Saban as the greatest coach. Saban is unstoppable with his recruiting advantage in Alabama, and Meyer has won in Florida and Utah without a recruiting advantage. Saban on the other hand failed in the NFL and at MSU without that advantage so if Meyer’s system works in the NFL he can prove he’s the GOAT coach over Saban.
Edit: I see people didn't like my comment about Meyer proving he’s the GOAT over Saban. I am not saying he is. The point is he is motivated to prove it in the NFL since Saban failed there. Also my reference to Saban’s recruiting advantage is over the last ten years not in the first year. He only has that advantage because he won big in the first couple of years at Alabama. There also wasn’t a team as dominant in the SEC when Saban started at Bama compared to Bama today or compared to OSU now in the B10. The point here is it’s easier and faster to climb to the top of the mountain if there isn’t another team at the top yet. And if you can get there in your first couple of years in a conference it will be that much tougher for anyone else to knock you off.
January 5th, 2021 at 5:52 AM ^
Not sure I understand the idea about Saban's recruiting advantage. Alabama was 10 years removed from their last great coach when Saban got there, and they have to compete in state with Auburn. Obviously now he can recruit whoever he wants, but what kind of recruiting advantage did he have there before he made the program what it is? I'm not sure it could have been all that much better than Florida, where Meyer was only separated from Spurrier by 3 years.
January 5th, 2021 at 8:42 AM ^
Ten years?
January 5th, 2021 at 11:26 AM ^
Between Stallings and Saban -- a decade -- Bama spent some time in the wilderness. That program was a far bigger wreck at that point than Michigan has ever been. They squeezed one good year out of Dubose, one good year out Franchione, were humiliated by the Mike Price "the tide's rollin'" affair and ended up on a bowl ban.
The institutional and cultural importance of a winning Alabama football team made it a fairly easy ship to right, for the right coach.
January 5th, 2021 at 6:09 AM ^
The Florida job is a top coaching job because of the recruiting advantage. You are the top dog in one the top states for talent in the country, in addition to the weather, beaches, etc. that the state of Florida offers.
January 5th, 2021 at 9:22 AM ^
Florida State and Miami collectively ask, “Oh, really?”
January 5th, 2021 at 2:25 PM ^
Florida State had been suffering from late period Bobby Bowden for a few years when Meyer was hired and hadn't been a national title contender since 1999-2000. Their best season when Meyer was at Florida was 10-4 in Jimbo Fisher's first season and Urban Meyer's last season.
Miami had been national title contenders in 2000-2002 but they were firmly in their Wile E. Coyote years by the time Meyer was hired. Miami fired Larry Coker two years into Meyer's time at Florida, and their best seasons while Meyer was at Florida were 9-3 and 9-4. Miami still hasn't completely recovered.
So I gotta say that Florida can make a pretty good case for being the top dog in the state under Meyer.
January 5th, 2021 at 9:48 AM ^
Gainesville’s beaches are very overrated.