Urban Meyer hired as new head coach of Jacksonville Jaguars
Urban Meyer is out of coaching retirement. The Jacksonville Jaguars have officially hired Meyer as the franchise’s new head coach.
“This is a great day for Jacksonville and Jaguars fans everywhere,” Jaguars owner Shad Khan said in a released statement.
“Urban Meyer is who we want and need, a leader, winner and champion who demands excellence and produces results. While Urban already enjoys a legacy in the game of football that few will ever match, his passion for the opportunity in front of him here in Jacksonville is powerful and unmistakable. I am proud to name Urban Meyer the new head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars.”
Meyer succeeds Doug Marrone in the position as the sixth permanent head coach in the Jaguars’ 27-season history. Tom Coughlin was the Jacksonville head coach from 1995-2002, followed by Jack Del Rio from 2003-2011. After Del Rio, Mike Mularkey was the team’s head coach in 2012 with Gus Bradley in charge from 2013-2016. Marrone was head coach from 2017-20.
Meyer, who won two national championships at Florida, last coached at Ohio State. He was also a college head coach at Bowling Green at Utah. He went 17-6 at Bowling Green (2001-2002), 22-2 at Utah (2003-2004), 65-15 at Florida (2005-2010) and 83-9 at Ohio State (2012-2018).
Meyer, who has reportedly been assembling his coaching staff, will likely get to coach Trevor Lawrence as Jacksonville has the No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft.
DO NOT take Dan Mullen away from UF!
LOL!
I don’t know man. There was only one Jimmy Johnson. A lot of CFB coaches flame out in the NFL.
Yep. Steve Spurrier, Chip Kelly, Nick Saban…
I believe ol’ Stevie could have pulled it off but issues with ownership wrecked that train. At least that’s how I remember it. Kinda like the ol’ buying groceries – cooking thing.
Actually Spurrier agreed to coach Washington on the condition they would bring back legendary Bobby Beathard as GM. But Beathard never came.
Spurrier traded Stephen Davis to the Panthers huge mistake for the hbc.
They probably couldn’t afford Stephen Davis and he didn’t last much longer after Spurrier left the NFL. He was past him prime and had trouble holding onto the ball in key spots during Spurrier’s last year.
One big difference is the game in the NFL has become more college like then it was when Spurrier or Lou Holtz failed
Look at Kliff Kingsbury, he was fired at his Alma Mater in college and in two years made Arizona respectably.
And remember also. Some of the college coaches that failed it was not all their fault
Snyder tied Spurrier’s hands. Spurrier has talked about the fact years later he could even choose his own backup QB with Snyder’s meddling.
Saban’s tenure could ha s been alot different at the Dolphins if could have gotten Drew Brees.
Petrino once he found out Michael Vick couldn’t play that season, basically bailed on the Falcons.
Butch Davis did OK at Cleveland he was still the last coach before Stefanski to lead the Browns to a playoff birth.
Don’t forget Pete Carroll. He’s had a nice run in Seattle.
Johnson benefitted from a million draft choices. Not that he couldn’t coach.
The migraines cleared up just in time.
A lot of them didn’t have the number 1 draft pick. Multiple draft picks and lots of cap money to go out and get some good veteran talent to go along with all the young talent they they have on the roster.
I heard he was sick of his family and needed to spend some time at work.
Probably the other way around.
The stadium won’t be nearly as full as he remembers from the Cocktail Party
Every stadium is empty now
This is an interesting hire. Meyer hasn’t failed anywhere he’s gone, but plenty of legendary college football coaches can’t recreate their success in the NFL because it’s such a different beast. Everyone has great players, and those players are almost constantly shifting. I don’t see him lasting long in the NFL, but that isn’t because he isn’t a legendary coach. It’s because I think the NFL is infinitely more stressful than a college football job as things seem to constantly shift.
That and the enforced parity. In college ball players choose where they go and the best among them tend to glom onto the same handful of programs to have a shot at a championship. Saban won most of his games this year through his recruiting efforts alone and before the kickoff happened. In the NFL the league doesn’t allow this – letting all the stars pool in one place.
In chess anyone can look like a grandmaster up a rook and a queen from the start of the game. Get used to playing that way and you lose your edge – which is why college football coaches at a high level tend to fail when they get picked up by an NFL squad. On the rare occasion an NFL squad poaches a college football coach from a non-blue blood it usually turns out better because those coaches haven’t been able to win the game through recruiting before it even starts.
Footnote: I’m not trying to cry sour grapes here, just being realistic. Saban and his staff work their ass off at recruiting and deserve everything they get out of it.
The parity is very true. The gap between NY Jets and the KC Chiefs is non-existent compared to say the gap between Alabama and New Mexico State
The parity is also in the level of the talent. A team, blueblood or not, is luck to have 5-6 NFL caliber players on the team. They can feast on the players that are not and the teams that have none. In the NFL, of course, they all are NFL level players. And while some are better than others, the gap is not as wide.
I wonder if Mullen’s silence on the NFL is because he has been waiting to see if and where Meyer goes?
The NFL may (notice I said may) view Mullen as damaged goods.
Everything started out great until week 10. He was the darling of the East.
Then you had the shoe-throw-loss, the SECCG loss, and the Cotton Bowl loss. Stir in a some NCAA investigations and Show Cause orders and voila!
Or maybe not.
You forgot about Mullethead charging the Mizzou sideline.
Good luck Urban. Except when you play Tampa.
I’m taking the under on the 3-5 years before he has a ‘medical condition’ that requires him to step down.
Urban Meyer wants to be added to the small list of both National Championship and Super Bowl winning coaches
Guess I’ll go burn my Minshew jersey now.
Been in the college game tooo long. But he’ll get a nice fat paycheck. I could have been hired for a cool million after taxes and only signed for one year and saved the Jaguars a lot of heart ache.
He may succeed. While I don’t think much of him as a person, he is an excellent coach. He doesn’t have to babysit teenagers, just manage young men who are more mature (usually). That might actually fit better for his coaching personality. Stay tuned. Even if he fails, he is richer.
I just want to know the name of Meyer’s Heart Doctor. Just in case..
That man is amazing!
I’m not sure why you’d want his heart doctor’s name. His health issues at Florida were a result of esophageal spasms and he left OSU because of a brain cyst. You’d probably what to know the name of his Gastro or Neurologist.
Come on Joe be nice to Timmy he’s just another silly puppy
Well, Joe who knows what’s really wrong with Meyer, except that he couldn’t take the heat in the SEC. So he used health issues as an excuse to run away, only to take the OS job. You don’t have to recruit against, or play against SEC talent in the B1G…
In 2010 there were various reports and excuses put forth.
“ClickOrlando.com reports that Meyer suffered a heart attack this year”.
So, there you go. Carry on…
IF things go well for Meyer, Jacksonville could for the first time ever, be the best football team in Florida.
So will this prompt Corch the Moron to once again change his name? And will his obsession with Meyer, Mullen and everything Gator continue?
And yet your obsession with UGA, Kirby, and Corch continues. You both got a drinking or mental problem!
Congratulations, Corch.
Those headaches are going to ratchet up when he realizes that he does not have the control that he had at OSU. The odds are he will be gone in 3-4 years. We just have to see.
four years. I would take the under on that.
Urban has his name on two Brew Pubs in Columbus – one near The OSU Campus. Now that he will be moving to Jacksonville. The waitresses can breath a sigh of relief.