Will Urban Meyer land another CFB job? + Bowl Preview Pt. 1
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The Urban Meyer era in Jacksonville came to an abrupt, but predictable, end on Thursday morning - Andy and Ari react to Meyer's termination and contemplate whether he'll return to the college ranks. Was Meyer's tenure with the Jaguars so absurd and unpalatable that his whole career is "nuked"? If he were to land back in with a collegiate program, where would it be? The guys also chat about the shifting dynamics between college coaches and players with the latest Signing Period in mind. Should college coaches approach coaching much like NFL helmsmen do? Plus, the latest big-named quarterback hits the transfer portal and finds a new home, and a look ahead to pre-Christmas bowl games.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:10.9 | I know I promised a bowl preview, and we will get to the bowls that are starting. |
| 0:15.9 | You're listening to this on a Friday. |
| 0:17.6 | The bowls start today. |
| 0:18.8 | There's football in the Bahamas today, Ari Wassman, |
| 0:21.2 | but there's a lot going on. I think perhaps we underestimated how heavy the news cycle was |
| 0:26.8 | going to be with early signing period transfer portal, NIL, and oh, by the way, NFL news that |
| 0:33.9 | touches the college football world. Because the thing the whole football community is buzzing |
| 0:40.1 | about as we record this on Thursday is Urban Meyer got fired by the Jacksonville Jaguars. And, |
| 0:46.3 | you know, Ari, I've been thinking a lot about this situation. And because I, every time this was |
| 0:52.9 | even brought up, the response from, from fans would be, well, he'll just go get |
| 0:58.5 | another job in college. And every college will try to snap him up. You know, if Ryan Day goes to |
| 1:03.9 | the Bears, Ohio State will just bring him back. And all right, I'm curious, we've both covered |
| 1:10.0 | Urban Meyer as beat writers. We've both covered Urban Meyer as beatwriters. |
| 1:11.9 | We've both covered major college football for a while now. |
| 1:15.7 | Do you think Urban Meyer would get another college job? |
| 1:19.4 | I have been struggling with this for a long time. |
| 1:23.6 | And I don't want to put Bill Landis's words in his mouth. |
| 1:27.4 | So I hope that I am saying this right. |
| 1:31.6 | But I think that Landis thought that he wasn't a college, he wasn't employable in college before all this happened. |
| 1:37.3 | So to me, I just wonder like, I'm not sure that the jobs that he would want would take him. Like, I think that middle tier teams or lower tier teams might take a risk. Like, but I don't know if urban. Like the one that hired Bobby Petrino. Yes. Well, and I don't, and I don't know if it's fair to put Urban Meyer in the same category as some of the other people that, you know, have been in those positions. |
| 2:01.4 | But also, too, it wasn't even just that things didn't go well in Jacksonville. Obviously, |
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