“It Will Be Hard For Meyer To Say No To OSU”

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Add ESPN.com’s Edward Aschoff to the list of folks who think Urban Meyer would have a hard time turning down Ohio State if the Buckeyes called him.  And Aschoff wrote for The Gainesville Sun before joining ESPN’s army of sports drones, so he should have some insight into Meyer’s desire to coach again as well as his love for his homestate Buckeyes.  In the writer’s words:


“Oh, and there’s the itch.  It’s a coaching itch that won’t leave a man, who ‘retired’ at the age of 46, anytime soon.  He’s won everywhere he’s been and led the Gators to two national championships and three SEC title games in his six years in Gainesville.  His health might be in question (for now), but that coaching fire that made him one of the most exciting young coaches in the country is still inside him somewhere.

Don’t expect a new recruiting base to deter him either.  He coached at Bowling Green, where the Midwest was his home and if he can dominate recruiting in the SEC, the Big Ten shouldn’t be an issue.  OSU’s recruiting grounds stretched all the way to the southeast, especially Florida, and Meyer owned that area.

As far as family is concerned, it might not have much input this time around.  Meyer said in a book in 2008 that OSU, Notre Dame and Michigan were the only coaching jobs that his wife had no power to veto.

Check and mate.”


Well, hell, why don’t Meyer and the Bucks just announce the hire today?  Aschoff makes this thing sound as locked-in as most Ohio State fans hope it is.

But at least the writer’s final statement leaves him a hair’s width of wiggle room on the subject:


“If OSU makes that phone call after next season, the truth is it will be hard for Meyer to say no.”