MSU Coach Search - Urban

You lost me when you said Comparoni is a trusted inside source for MSU.  That guy is cringeworthy.  I will never forgive him for what he said MSU should do to Devin Gardner. 

I personally couldn't give two shits about who coaches Sparty next.

they talked about this on WTKA this morning, Sam had Vance Bedford on and Sam asked him flat out if Meyer would take the MSU job and Vance's answer was no. He said that where ever Meyer has gone as a college coach he has always had a QB already there and that there was already talent on the team. But the QB was the main one. Vance's other point was recruiting and Meyer wants to be somewhere where he can bring the level of players he needs and wants... MSU ain't that place...

The amount of work that Meyer would have to do to get MSU straightened out to be able to compete would give him PTSD from his time with the Jags... 

Also how happy would MSU fans be when they find out that Scotty Hazelton would be their DC??? Meyer always keeps the DC from the previous staff where ever he has coached in college

The Urban brand is nothing like it used to be. Maybe his name still carries some punch in Ohio (apparently also in the OP's mind), but what 2025/2025 recruits ever saw him coach in person let alone would play for that jerk in the NIL era? 

No man. Cmon

He's going to have better options. A&M could almost certainly come available. That is a better job, that can offer more money and is far easier to recruit to. 

If Urban wants back into coaching, he will have better options than what is going to be a middle-of-the-pack program, at best, in the upcoming 14 team conference. 

So they're going to cough up another $95 million?

"it sounds like they are willing to pay him anything he wants"

They can be as willing as they want, but where's the money actually coming from?  It's public knowledge that "donors" didn't pay for 80%+ of Tucker's contract.  They haven't necessarily settled the issue of Tucker's buyout yet either, so there's potentially 8 figures of liability to still TBD.  MSU claimed poverty when they cancelled swimming, diving, and wrestling (and maybe a 4th sport I can't remember), and suddenly finding another $100 mil for Urban would undermine their ongoing Title 9 defenses in those cases.

If (a big IF) there is interest from Urban, then it's probably because MSU is the only FBS school with an open head coaching position right now and are the only ones talking to Meyer.  I still do not see this as realistic because the only ones reporting on it are MSU people.  As much as we rip on MSU, they are not that stupid to hire another controversial coach following one they just fired, and as much as we make fun of Meyer he is a smart man and will not open up the option of being the head coach of a program that is in the gutter right now.  He led a Utah team in a weak conference 20 years ago, then got hired at Florida with a load of talent, then went to OSU with even more talent.  He is a great coach with talent, but does he believe he can be a great coach with much lesser talent?  That is something that will definitely hover in his mind to not want to take the MSU job. 

UM cheats!

Now let's hire the rapey guy that covers up domestic violence, cheats on his wife with coeds, creates program culture that allows Aaron Hernandez to shoot students on campus and become a mass murderer. 

bUT THe SigNs!!!!!

Thamel is reporting this is a done deal.  The hold up on the announcement is because they are still debating whether to change MSU to XSU or TSUNSU.

"scrape out wins against OSU, PSU, and UM. "

and Oregon, Washington, USC...

So you just fire a coach for sexual harassment and you’re going to hire a married coach caught on video grinding on a young girl at a bar. Can it get any worse at that dumpster fire of a school.

Plot Twist: 

Harbaugh ends up leaving for the NFL and Michigan lands Urban in the off season.

Oh my, the exploding heads on 11w and rcmb. The reading would be glorious.

The last time USC was looking for a football coach President Carol Folt said she would never hire Urban.  Highly doubt that has changed given what has transpired since with Urban.  And I think we can agree that the job is below even him.

Said it before, will say it again: I want no part of Urban Meyer at MSU. I don't care if he is an automatic 9-win season simply by dint of showing up on the sidelines (I don't think he is, but OK). He's not the guy for this position at this time.

I see him taking the OSU job when it opens up on the evening of November 25. 

Being reported a large deal is coming from Brenton Kelly CBS sports. 

No

Won’t happen.  MSU is a reclamation process, awful roster, challenging recruiting base, dysfunctional AD and opponent to OSU.  He has better options in far better recruiting grounds if he really wants to coach and wants to pressure an AD into change - TAMU, USC, UCLA, LSU.