The primary question centers on the way he left the game a year ago, after previously retiring and quickly unretiring in 2009. Less than six months after forcing former coach Jim Tressel to resign in the wake of NCAA violations, and just two days after ending a 6-6 season under replacement Luke Fickell, Ohio State administrators know it was some combination of fate and luck that landed a candidate like Meyer in their laps.Ī 10-year head coach with two national championships who grew up in Ashtabula and started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Ohio State, Meyer is the coach from central casting sent to save the program after a season of suffering. “It’s tougher than any other contract I’ve signed in my life,” Meyer said Monday. It was the contract written up by his 21-year-old daughter, Nicki, that the Meyer family hopes will allow him, less than a year after retiring as the coach at Florida, to get back into football with more balance and less of the unhealthy obsession with what he called “the pursuit of perfection.”
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It wasn’t the contract that will pay the 47-year-old more than $4 million per year, plus perks and incentives, over the next six seasons to lead the Buckeyes. Urban Meyer pulled out the contract, the 24th head coach in Ohio State history referencing the document, written on pink paper, that he believes will change his life. Urban Meyer, an Ashtabula native and former Florida coach, was offi cially introduced as the new head footballĬoach of The Ohio State Univeristy during a press conference Monday in Columbus.
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