{"id":422972,"date":"2023-04-15T20:19:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T20:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=422972"},"modified":"2023-04-15T20:19:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T20:19:56","slug":"urban-meyer-puts-a-full-stop-on-his-coaching-career-that-books-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/urban-meyer-puts-a-full-stop-on-his-coaching-career-that-books-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Meyer Puts A Full Stop On His Coaching Career: &#8216;That Book&#8217;s Closed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Meyer sure sounds like a man who is done prowling the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Meyer, a college football coaching icon who currently works as an analyst for Fox Sports, won three national titles during his time as the head coach of the Florida Gators and the Ohio State Buckeyes.<\/p>\n<p>Urban Meyer, a three-time national champion and well-traveled coach in college football, said this week at the Ohio State coaches clinic that his time as a head coach is finished while still being relatively young at 58.<\/p>\n<h2>Urban Meyer Puts A Full Stop On His Coaching Career: &#8216;That Book&#8217;s Closed&#8217;<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Urban Meyer had a coach on staff at Ohio State whose job was all things Michigan. <\/p>\n<p>Watch every game. <br \/>Know who they\u2019re recruiting.<br \/>Etc. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s all he did\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gSSvhiKycU\">pic.twitter.com\/gSSvhiKycU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Unnecessary Roughness (@UnnecRoughness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnnecRoughness\/status\/1646906799801466881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meyer continues to be involved in the sport as a TV analyst less than two years after his dismal 13-game tenure as the coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars came to an end. Meyer&#8217;s tenure in the NFL was a failure, but his two decades of success as a head coach at Bowling Green, Utah, Florida, and Ohio State have made him a constant name of interest for available college jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That book\u2019s closed,&#8221; Meyer said at Ohio State\u2019s coaching clinic, according to The Columbus Dispatch. &#8220;It\u2019s going to be TV and grandfather.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jaguars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jaguars<\/a> Head Coach Urban Meyer says <br \/>&quot;the book is closed&quot; on a coaching return, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SInow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SInow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zsdkpp6KdJ\">pic.twitter.com\/zsdkpp6KdJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NFL Rumors (@nflrums) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nflrums\/status\/1646971747453882387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There is plenty of time for Meyer to reopen the &#8220;closed&#8221; book at a time when outstanding college coaches like Nick Saban of Alabama and Mack Brown of North Carolina are still in their 70s. Meyer has really taken breaks from coaching in the past only to get the coaching itch again. Ironically, Meyer&#8217;s remarks came at the Ohio State coaches clinic, which is a strange place for a coach to declare that his career on the sidelines is over.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Retired three-time national champion head coach Urban Meyer reiterated the &quot;book is closed&quot; on his coaching career, per The Columbus Dispatch: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Ry3baDcCW\">https:\/\/t.co\/5Ry3baDcCW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PTUYOk8SOL\">pic.twitter.com\/PTUYOk8SOL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 247Sports (@247Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/247Sports\/status\/1646894518501777409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>No matter what Meyer says, his supporters will undoubtedly keep calling for him to take over as coach in the future. Meyer has established himself as a consistent collegiate champion despite his failure in the NFL and dubious handling of certain off-field matters, such as the domestic abuse charges against former Ohio State receivers coach Zach Smith.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Urban Meyer shuts down return to coaching: &#39;That book&#39;s closed&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nTD2Rtwmul\">https:\/\/t.co\/nTD2Rtwmul<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1647289954274254849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But, at least for the time being, he has no plans to write a sequel to a &#8220;book&#8221; that features a record of 187-32 over the course of 17 seasons as the head coach of a collegiate football team.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dnffSp35ZpU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NCAA Brings Significant Changes In The Recruiting Rules\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ncaa-brings-significant-changes-in-the-recruiting-rules\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">NCAA Brings Significant Changes In The Recruiting Rules<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Meyer sure sounds like a man who is done prowling the sidelines. Meyer, a college football coaching icon who currently works as an analyst for Fox Sports, won three national titles during his time as the head coach of the Florida Gators and the Ohio State Buckeyes. Urban Meyer, a three-time national champion and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":388281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[7096,7093,7095,7094],"class_list":["post-422972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nccaf","tag-urban-meyer-retired","tag-urban-myer","tag-urban-myer-career","tag-urban-myer-coaching"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}