Urban Meyer will be stepping down as the coach of the Florida Gators after their bowl game. While Meyer made a similar announcement a year ago before later changing his mind, it appears that this is the real deal this time. Meyer, who has spent the last 6 seasons with the Gators has put together quite a resume in his decade of being a head coach. Starting with Bowling Green in 2001, Meyer never had a losing season and has averaged better than 10 wins a year with Bowling Green, Utah and Florida. Entering his final game he is 103-23, including 6-1 in Bowl Games. In his first year with Bowling Green he took a team that had been 2-9 in 2000 and turned in an 8-3 season. In 2004, he was part of the first non-BCS conference school to be awarded a BCS bowl when he took 11-0 Utah to the Fiesta Bowl where they didn't just show they belonged, but absolutely flattened Big East Conference Champion Pitt 35-7. He boasts 2 national championships, 2 Mountain West Championships, 2 SEC Championships, and 3 SEC Eastern Division Titles, as well as a slough of Coach of the Year Awards inlcuding being both the Sports Illustrated and the Sporting News Coach of the Decade. Ironically, he'll end his coaching career coaching against Penn St. and Joe Paterno. While Meyer is stepping down after 10 years, Joe Paterno has been the head coach of Penn St. since 1966. To put that in perspective, Urban Meyer was born in 1964.
It's no doubt that Florida will miss him, but they'll recover. Before Meyer and Tebow there was Steve Spurrier and Danny Wuerrffel. The Gators time will come again.
I'll leave you today with my introduction to Urban Meyer which came from Nike's Briscoe High Football commercials:
Two-a-Days
Opening Day
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