The following year, he joined Coach Earle Bruce's staff at Ohio State and spent two years as a graduate assistant - coaching tight ends in 1986 and receivers in 1987 - while pursuing his master's degree in sports administration. Xavier High School in Cincinnati in 1986. Meyer's first football coaching experience was as an intern at St. He matriculated to Cincinnati and played defensive back for the football program, graduating in 1986 with his bachelor's degree in psychology. I am part of it, I believe in it, and I will live it."Īfter graduating from Saint John High School in Ashtabula, Meyer was a 13th-round MLB draft pick of the Atlanta Braves and spent two years in minor league baseball.
My duty is to ensure that Ohio State's football program reflects and enhances the academic mission of the institution. "This University and the state of Ohio have enormous meaning to me.
"I am honored and humbled by the opportunity to return to Ohio State," said Meyer. He was 65-15 in his six seasons at Florida with the two national titles, two Southeastern Conference championships and three 13-win seasons, including consecutive 13-win seasons in 20 to become the first coach ever to accomplish that feat.Īnd now he brings his coaching talents home to Ohio, the state where he has lived for 25 of his 47 years and where he met his wife, the former Shelley Mather, who grew up in Frankfort, Ohio. He was 22-2 in two seasons at Utah, including a 16-game winning streak and a 12-0 campaign in 2004 when he led the first-ever non-Bowl Championship Season program into a BCS game. He led Bowling Green to the best turnaround season in the nation in 2001 with an 8-3 record and he went 9-3 in Year 2. Meyer has not only won big at each of his three previous head coaching positions, but he has won immediately. Meyer has already won two national championships - in 20 with the University of Florida - and no less than three national coach of the year honors, including The Sporting News honor in 2003 and the Eddie Robinson and Home Depot Coach of the Year awards, respectively, in 2004. 926 percentage owned by Boise State's Chris Peterson. 2 among current major college coaches with that percentage, trailing only the.
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Through 10 full seasons as a head coach, Meyer has the tenth-best winning percentage in major college football history with a winning rate of. He brings with him an understanding of the University - both the important traditions of its football program and the excellence of the institution." Smith said that Meyer is "known not only as one of the nation's most successful coaches, but also as a leader and mentor who cares deeply about the young men who are his student-athletes. As an Ohioan, he shares our common values and sense of purpose." "As an alumnus, he understands and believes in the core academic mission of the University. "In Urban Meyer we have found an exemplary person and remarkable coach to lead the University's football program into the future," Gee said. Gordon Gee and Director of Athletics Gene Smith, Meyer returns to collegiate coaching after sitting out the past year to devote time to his family - wife Shelley, college-age daughters Nicole and Gisele and 13-year-old son Nathan - and to work as an analyst for ESPN. The only candidate interviewed by a five-member search committee of senior Ohio State leaders, headed by President E. It was at that time when the 47-year-old Meyer, born in Toledo, raised in Ashtabula and with degrees from the University of Cincinnati and The Ohio State University, signed a six-year agreement to become the 24th head coach in the storied history of Ohio State football. Sometime during the morning of November 28, 2011, Ohio native Urban Meyer returned home. Year in Coaching: 26th (First year at Ohio State)Ĭhildren: Daughters, Nicole and Gigi, and son, Nathan High Point Solutions Stad, Piscataway, NJīig Ten Championship Game, Indianapolis, IN
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