That was a topic of discussion for me and some friends last night, before the news of Corch’s firing broke. And, yes, I know Meyer’s got a 187-32 record as a college head coach, with three nattys. And, yes, I know there are plenty of examples of second acts for college coaches who couldn’t cut it in the pros. I mean, if a total douche like Bobby Petrino could land on his feet — handsomely, even — at Arkansas, surely there’s a place somewhere for Urban Meyer.
But this makes three fairly spectacular flame outs in a row for the guy when the going got tough. Beyond that, you can make the argument that Meyer’s stint at Jacksonville is the worst showing for any NFL coach, ever. And that’s before you get to the erratic personal behavior he displayed as the ship was sinking. Handling adversity isn’t Urban Meyer’s strong suit.
What has been his strong suit is talent accumulation, but with the advent of the transfer portal, even that has to be questioned somewhat. If your coach behaves like a complete dick, you don’t have to put up with that on the college level anymore.
I have no doubt Meyer intends to return to the college coaching ranks, because he’s not built to have the Jacksonville fiasco as the final item on his resume. But how many schools are prepared to roll the dice on an expensive chance like Corch (and he will be pricey), knowing that it’s likely he’ll flame out in less than five seasons and his tenure will play out in a very public way?
Okay… how many schools besides Auburn?
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UPDATE: LOL. Stingtalk is all in on Corch.
There are several schools that I’m sure are furious they waited until now to fire him. If this would have happened two weeks ago he’d have been snatched up in a heartbeat.
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Nope. He’s as employable as Zach Smith at this point.
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Give it a year or two to die down. Some high-profile program will take him.
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HA,HA,HA,HA…Bluto, you know that Douchebag will have some ca$h thrown at him from some unassuming ad that he won’t resist or maybe that young lady who is stalking corch at his restaurant will pop up somewhere and change the narrative…hopefully the next coach at jax turns that ship around and truly shows that corch is a Douchebag and more…
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The problem in JAX is the owner not the HC de jour.
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Young lady stalking Corch? You misspelled young lady banging Corch the last 6 mths or longer.
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I disagree. Not only will Urban have a job at a desperate P5 program by this time next year, he’ll hire Smith as one of his assistants, saying “Zach’s a good man and a good coach who’s made some mistakes but deserves a second chance.”
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Somebody will hire him. The chance of short term success too alluring.
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Speaking of sleazebags.
Urban Meyer. What a fuckn sleazebag.
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Yep. Meyer and Jimbo, two peas in a pod. I’d kind of like to see him go to Texas, just to see which one could out sleaze the other.
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Meyer to Texas? I could see that happening. Desperation leads even the most prideful to strange decisions.
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A match made in hell…
I actually think Auburn would shy away because of the yankee attitude/disposition and the recent philandering issues. None of the other red flags would be of any concern to them.
If Brian Kelly or Jimbo wash out, those might be fits.
South Carolina if SOS put in a good word (he may put in a bad one) although I’m guessing Beamer may be around a bit.
Miami or FSU perhaps?
Otherwise, I have a hard time matching him up somewhere.
I think you need a desperate program with very little concern with the appearance of virtue. Tennessee?
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You know tOSU would take him back in a hot second if they tire of Day.
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I don’t know. The release terms seemed intentionally ugly. You’d need all new people in place in the administration(s) to make that work and you KNOW that Cincinnati’s coach is getting that job if it opens up.
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I live here.
Trust me, he’s be welcomed back.
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Perhaps, but now how do I trust your judgment?
Its a fair point, I think.
Are you a child? Chained to something? Incarcerated?
Why the fuck would anyone CHOOSE to live in Ohio?
Its prism through which all your declarations must be viewed, IMHO.
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Great state to live in, despite local collegiate athletics.
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See what I mean?
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He takes a year off, and then Clemson.
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FSU
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If Oklahoma had known Corch would be on the market, I can safely say Brent Venables would still be in Clemson.
When Texas runs off Sark in the next couple of years, he’ll be in Austin.
If for some reason Saban decided he was ready to go out on top, the Bammers will ignore it all and have Corch in Tuscaloosa in a heartbeat.
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This. One of the top-tier P5 programs that has been underperforming will hire him. USC would have. OU, UT…shit if Saban suddenly hangs it up, I bet Urbz is in the mix.
They’ll care much more about this first two years & the wins than the inevitable ethical dumpster fire.
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Is there time for bama to lose five straight to Auburn first?
If so, yes, bammer would hire Satan himself (again), if that happened.
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With Corch in Austin, the NIL money will be off the charts and he’ll land the top class forever. He could literally buy the team he wants. Those ten gallon hat wearing f’ers have the dough and Corch has the weasleability to get ‘er done.
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Urbs and the Texas boosters are cut from the same cloth.
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Urbs and the Texas boosters are cut from the same cloth.
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His timing is good to return to UF in a couple of years. By then, UF will have spit out Napier, and the media will have forgotten that Corch is a criminally insane sociopath.
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This CBS Sports story below mentions the now infamous video of him in the bar, describing the incident as “suggestively dancing with a woman who wasn’t his wife.”
I keep seeing similar descriptions. That was the FIRST video, right? Him “dancing”? Why is the second video showing him GROPING a young lady at the bar never mentioned? Was it a fake, or am I missing something?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/urban-meyer-fired-by-jaguars-in-midnight-move-after-less-than-one-season-on-job/
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I think most teams would hire him, and when I say think I really mean know.
The bigger question is “how far would they go to hire Corch?”, and that could get scary/crazy/cringy/hilarious. Let’s say Napier can’t find Tebow (savior) in the portal and has a rough 2022, do they can him if Meyer says he will come back to Gainesville? What do Texas and Auburn boosters do to get Meyer?
Oh, and let’s be honest, Irvin Meyers will do all the shady shit behind the scenes. All of it.
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Rest assured, Napier’s going to have a rough 22. I don’t see how he avoids it.
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I don’t think any major program will touch him for at least a few years, maybe ever unless he would work on the cheap. Then there are some that would chance it.
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I mostly agree with this. I could see Luke Fickell getting hired by a P5 in the near future, and Cincy having the right combination of shamelessness and desperation to stay relevant that they would hire Corch.
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^^This. If Fickel goes Corch is the replacement.
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He’ll bide his time on FOX Sports for a while. Something will open like…LSU?
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Oooo, what if he lands at Tech. Bwahahahahaha
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We all better hope he doesn’t land at Tech. He would be a thorn in Georgia’s side both on the field and in recruiting. He’d win the weak assed ACC Coastal within 2 years and be winning the weak assed ACC within 3. But the sanctimonious Techsters won’t sign him. They’d rather grovel in mediocrity than do something someone else would question.
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Don’t let your Gator fan friends or twitter folks enjoy this pile on…they WILLINGLY looked the other way when they employed him for wins.
They have no right to act above it all.
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I’m thinking Corch lands in the ACC. Maybe Dabo’s 3 losses this year and assistants bailing was just the beginning…
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Oddly enough, I seen the classless POS ending up in the Pac12…maybe in a California school, the competition isn’t as unrelenting as the SEC and Big10 and he’ll still get enough media coverage to feed his massive ego.
But he could just as easily end up in a mental hospital packed with chronic masterbaters, I’d be as indifferent to that news as I would be to the news that he returned to coach college football. You Go Urbs…really, just go away.
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It’s a real shame the Notre Dame and USC jobs opened and closed just before this happened.
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No way ND hires that toxic man.
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Reblogged this on Whipped Owl and commented:
Urban made my Black Monday coaches to be fired list just yesterday. 8 hours later, he was fired.
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Where’s Corch??? Here for the hot takes ❤
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I hope he never gets another job. He doesn’t deserve one, but the world ain’t fair. If it was, he wouldn’t have gotten this far in the first place.
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If Bobby Petrio and Hugh Freeze can get jobs after the bullshit that they pulled, then nothing is out of the realm of possibility. At some point, some desperate AD trying to save his ass will give Urban a call. If it’s win or get fired, why wouldn’t he make the call. Even when Urban flames out or blows up again, he will have turned some college program into a winner for a few years. Imagine what he can do with NIL to get their NLI’s. If Urban can come in and win, it will result a fat new contract for the AD or trigger some bonus that will cushion the bank account when the inevitable quitting or firing takes place. Other than self respect, if I’m a bottom feeder, what do I have to lose?
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Urban Meyer isn’t going to a bottom feeder. He just did that and it ended poorly, to say the least.
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You don’t think some big school like Illinois, Missouri, Florida State, or Arizona will take a swing at him (Not necessarily one of those, just that level of school). They have some history and money to take a run at him. He’s not going to a low level FCS or such but a name school with some history but no recent success?
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They may take a swing, but he’s not pitching to a place that he can’t succeed at immediately.
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Yep. He needs a recruiting pipeline, facilities, NIL money and Jimmy Sexton all lined-up plus power alums desperate and willing to hold their nose. Our beloved commentator “Corch” should change his name now to “Future Texas HC”.
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Sounds a lot like FSU or more likely Texas may be in his future. Texas has more money than God and a desire to win above maintaining any ethics. That would land Corch in the middle of fertile recruiting grounds with NIL money spilling out his pockets. He is also the type of personality that will tell the boosters to go to hell when they try to tell him how to do things. Sounds like a match made in Hell.
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Urban’s not going to work his way back up the food chain. He clearly no longer has much passion for the actual detail work of coaching. He wants the glory and the groupies that come with being an all-star coach and p.o.s. human being, but he doesn’t seem very interested in doing real work.
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Wow. The nerds really have no shame. They sicken me.
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That’s true.
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What schools? That’s easy:
Texas
FSU
Floriduh
He’ll be coaching one of those schools inside of five years.
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Corch, you hit the nail on the head with your namesake. Good on you.
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Congratulations oh Profant of Meyer. Who’s up next?
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Urban Meyer is a piece of shit.
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Full stop. Close comments.
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The bugs deserve him.
If they went that way could we finally justify what I propose and rotate Kennesaw, Mercer, Georgia State, Southern and Tech, all at home of course?
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To put into perspective how truly disastrous of a season this was for that prick, Meyer becomes only the fourth non-interim coach in the NFL since the merger with the AFL in 1970 to not make it through his first complete regular season. Two of those previous three to Meyer were college coaches before going to the NFL. Meyer is the ONLY of the previously college coaches to get fired. The other two were of course Petrino in Atlanta who snuck out in the night and Lou Holtz who resigned as the Jets coach in 1976 with one game to go in the regular season. While the fact that Urban has fewer wins in the NFL than national championships as a college head coach, Urban got himself fired and wins and losses in his first season had little to do with it.
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It looks like a job for the Saban Coach Car Wash. I wonder if Saban has reached out to offer a helping hand. I mean it did wonders for Booch Jones. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Those ADs don’t care if he flames out after 5 years as long as he wins a natty or two along the way.
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Yup. Gators like Spencer Hall spit on the floor every time his names get mentioned but they sure do still celebrate the hell out of those two championships and Timmy’s Blessed Heisman too.
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I can’t wait for Timmy to put some lipstick on this pig.
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The dude is toxic and a pr nightmare at this point. All his laundry is visible to all. Not sure any AD or fanbase will hitch their wagon to him anytime soon. While there is upside, his ability to wreck a program is crystal clear. Wanna bet $9m per year (for 10 years) that he’ll behave and quickly win some nattys before he flames out? Not me and not anyone with a brain.
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My best friend is a Gator (I know). He is fond of saying that Urb coaching your team is like living with a beautiful, nymphomaniac stripper. It’s great until you wake up to take a leak one morning and it really burns.
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