Urban Meyer Out
From Schefter "After less than one year in Jacksonville, Urban Meyer is out as the Jaguars’ head coach, sources tell ESPN."
December 16th, 2021 at 8:00 AM ^
fun fact winner
December 16th, 2021 at 5:32 AM ^
I think it’s silly to say that he won’t be back to college football. This arrogant prick will need to inflate his ego again and will take a job that will have him, no doubt. FSU maybe? I think he steps away a year or two, get this PR nightmare under control and is back at it at a slimy school.
December 16th, 2021 at 5:37 AM ^
Hit the bricks pal cuz you are going out!!
December 16th, 2021 at 5:39 AM ^
It’s obvious he wanted out and acted like a d**k to get fired. He can now come back to the city that loves him and go back to teaching ethics at tOSU.
December 16th, 2021 at 6:09 AM ^
I’m sure there’s plenty of his blind faith followers that are blaming the media instead of the guy who shoved his hand up a girls ass on Twitter, kicked a lowly kicker because he’s to chicken shit to try it on a linebacker and called his coaches losers. Couldn’t get players to buy in to a guy who never actually played meaningful snaps of football. Close the chapter on who the better all around coach is in the true game of football instead of who the better salesman/extortionist is. Fuck you Urban.
December 16th, 2021 at 6:11 AM ^
Harbaugh has a winning record in the NFL and college.
Urban never would be able to succeed in the NFL.
December 16th, 2021 at 6:16 AM ^
"After deliberation over many weeks and a thorough analysis of the entirety of Urban's tenure with our team, I am bitterly disappointed to arrive at the conclusion that an immediate change is imperative for everyone," said owner Shad Khan.
Nice job of slipping in the "bitterly disappointed" moniker that is now destined to stick with Urban.
You can thank Jim Harbaugh for that phrase sticking with Urban. Harbaugh has erased the winless streak with OSU and that's been forgotten.
The fact that Harbaugh has taken a pro team to the Super Bowl and Urbs can't even make it one year without controversy following him AND the fact that other people are bitterly disappointed with Urban is all too poetic.
December 16th, 2021 at 8:23 AM ^
Shad thought he was getting a program changer and he sure did. Jacksonville was never gonna be a good team this year but Urban “Tommy Boyed” the shit out of an already messed up franchise. Couldn’t have happened to a bigger jagoff than ole Urban. Sadly he’s probably counting the 7digit deposit that hit his account this morning and living his best life again. Jagoff!
December 16th, 2021 at 6:19 AM ^
Goodbye Jags. Hello Associate Athletic Director for Leadership and Values at The Ohio State University.
December 16th, 2021 at 6:42 AM ^
Shad Khan probably wouldn’t let Urban work an hourly job at Flex N Gate at this point
December 16th, 2021 at 7:02 AM ^
Absolute disaster. Taking the Jacksonville job and absolutely f'ing it up made him untouchable during the craziest coaching carousel ever. The jobs at Florida, LSU, Oklahoma, USC, and his dream job Notre Dame were all open and he was not seriously considered for any of them. Had he just been at home with his wife and grandkids, he would most assuredly been hired by one or those and drawn interest from all.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:05 AM ^
He’ll get a great job next year though. Everybody on this thread has too much faith in college ADs.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:14 AM ^
I think you’re probably dead on. That makes for a good thread topid, guess Urban’s next coaching gig
December 16th, 2021 at 7:20 AM ^
I’m not sure. That the Lambo story was the last piece of news to break before he got canned will make it one of the most remembered moments. College ADs will tolerate a lot, but hiring a guy who might physically abuse students is going to be very tough for them to get through. If that happens at your school after you hire Urban despite his history, you’re out as the AD too.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:47 AM ^
After Les Miles getting fired at Kansas for what went down at LSU with a college girl, I have my doubts. The video at the bar in Cincinnati did him in for any future college job IMO. Even at Ohio State or Florida.
December 16th, 2021 at 12:13 PM ^
IIRC, last time Urban went after the ND gig, one of his demands was that they admit a recruit or two "no questions asked" every year. ND said no.
Ohio State was willing to gesture vaguely toward the "student" part of "student athlete", so that's where he went.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:06 AM ^
It's big time football and winning trumps everything, but I don't know how you hire a guy who kicked a 31 year-old man and told him him "I'm the head ball coach, I'll kick you whenever the fuck I want" to coach in college, at least for a couple years.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:15 AM ^
“These type guys” always come back. Motorcycle and not your wife. Escort service. Violations. Players and student assistants dying…
Sad.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:43 AM ^
And none of those examples had a winning coach anywhere near the level of Meyer.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:15 AM ^
Wonder what OSWho sites are saying?
December 16th, 2021 at 7:21 AM ^
I wonder if Ohio State is still proud of having him at their institution…
December 16th, 2021 at 7:29 AM ^
All they care about is that he won a title and beat Michigan.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:44 AM ^
Actually 11 warriors is being pretty reasonable.
December 16th, 2021 at 8:49 AM ^
I'm sure they are NOW because it's always been plain as day (no pun intended, seriously!) that he's a scumbag and he's not coaching them right *now*, but let's not act like they weren't all lining up to Cayman Nebraska him when he was their head coach pulling in top-ranked classes and winning conference titles left and right.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:17 AM ^
That rat will end up somewhere after a year of media
December 16th, 2021 at 7:27 AM ^
I don’t see him getting a media job at anywhere major at this point. My gut says he probably wasn’t very pleasant off the set at Fox, but it was tolerated because he was Urban. Now that his true colors have been shown over the last 8-9 months, I think there’d be a lot of pushback from on-screen talent as well as off-screen. No one’s going to want to work with him.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:25 AM ^
LSU may already have cause.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:28 AM ^
I feel sheepish admitting this, but watching him crash and burn in the NFL (which I expected, just not so spectacularly) has given me much joy.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:36 AM ^
Now it’s been revealed he has a son. Hopefully, little Sub-Urban will grow up to be a legend too.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:43 AM ^
Harbaugh tried to warn Jacksonville when he said Urban was a Great coach but controversy seems to follow him everywhere he goes.
December 16th, 2021 at 9:37 AM ^
Harbaugh always playing 4D chess
December 16th, 2021 at 12:16 PM ^
Harbaugh undoubtedly still maintains his NFL contacts, so he's probably heard REAL dirt on Meyer by now.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:49 AM ^
I wondered why he didn’t resign, to avoid the humiliation of a firing, weeks ago. He could have played the health card. But then I realized, money was probably involved.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:55 AM ^
Let the ESPN roasting begin:
Sports Center, Get Up, and First Take.
For Stephen A. this is like throwing chum to the sharks.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:58 AM ^
So once Urban Meyer got to a place he no longer had a tremendous talent advantage, he bombed. Once he got to a place where he no longer controlled people looking to advance, he failed. He got fired when he could no longer treat the players like unpaid servants. He's such a horrible person Buckeye fans now admit he's a piece of shit (well, maybe not all of them)
December 16th, 2021 at 9:03 AM ^
He'll have all of those tools back when he replaces Sark at Texas after the '22 season.
December 16th, 2021 at 7:59 AM ^
Good.
There are absolutely going to be a bunch of coaches, even new ones at spots like ND, Texas, etc. who are going to be looking over their shoulders just in case they struggle this year.
December 16th, 2021 at 8:29 AM ^
Based on Pope Urban's history, he'd be lucky to coach the Mean Machine!!! Actually based on history, that IS the team the scumbag should be coaching. F Pope Urban!!!
December 16th, 2021 at 8:44 AM ^
Don't you know, pump it up!!
December 16th, 2021 at 8:47 AM ^
Oh man, I bet the Meyers are going to have to totally revise their family contract now. I’d love to see the new contract because the smallest part of me thinks that maybe even his family has had enough of his psychopathic tendencies. Instead of mandating time that he has to spend with his family, the updated version might be limiting the time he’s allowed to spend with them.
December 16th, 2021 at 8:48 AM ^
Urban Meyer - worst NFL head coach of all time. Has a nice ring to it!
December 16th, 2021 at 9:19 AM ^
Funny how the Jags owner thought this would work and blew his wad on this guy.
December 16th, 2021 at 9:23 AM ^
When/if UM defeats The Great Evil next season, OSU will try to convince Meyer to come back. If Meyer agrees, OSU fires Day.
#GoBlue
December 16th, 2021 at 9:23 AM ^
Maybe he just decides to sit at home and count his money the rest of his life. It's not like he needs to work.
December 16th, 2021 at 9:34 AM ^
The College GameDay signs will be fucking great if he lands another college gig in the near future.
December 16th, 2021 at 10:06 AM ^
This football season is a gift that keeps on giving
December 16th, 2021 at 10:09 AM ^
Thoughts and prayers
December 16th, 2021 at 10:41 AM ^
For all of the angst about Coach Harbaugh on this forum over the last couple of years, I give you this:
"Urban Meyer's had a winning record," Harbaugh said. "A really phenomenal record everywhere he's been. But also, controversy follows everywhere he's been."
We are fortunate that we have a great coach who also has integrity. An increasingly rare combination in the world of college sports.