Head Coach Urban Meyer - Page 38 - ScarletBuckeye

McKraut · 02-01-2012, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by AZBuckeye

Yet @rivalsmike claimed that we turned down a commitment from Davonte Neal today?

I still don't buy it, but if it's true, I'm gonna get pretty upset.

I'm not really buying that unless he knows Diggs is coming in and that's the only slot he'll have left. Until we hear it from Neal himself, I won't buy it.

Block "O" · 02-01-2012, 06:11 PM

I love Meyer's honesty in these call in shows. There is no BS, he calls it like he sees it.

Arapahoe · 02-02-2012, 05:45 PM

OSUBasketballJunkie · 02-05-2012, 03:21 PM

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Ohio State football | Meyer: Coach at full speed
He challenges coaches to teach, as well as motivate

By Tim May
The Columbus Dispatch
Sunday February 5, 2012 6:29 AM

It wasn’t even 8 a.m., and Urban Meyer already was switched on.

He had the rapt attention of about 1,000 Ohio high-school football coaches and others on Friday, and he didn’t loosen his grip for more than an hour. From talking about what he wants from a player, to speaking of the demands he puts on his staff, to telling the assembled coaches how much he appreciates their work, his voice never dropped below eight on the 10-point volume scale, and sometimes leaped off that chart in the Easton Hilton ballroom.

Since being hired on Nov. 28, it was his first major appearance in front of those who help provide the lifeblood of the Ohio State program, and he clearly was up for the moment.

“This means everything,” Meyer said afterward. “There’s parts of the job you don’t like; there’s parts that you love. This goes in the love category.”

The audience could tell.

“He was very intense and very passionate,” said Olentangy coach Ed Terwilliger, one of the longtime leaders of the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association.

Meyer gave them a mental glimpse into his locker room, where he said motivational slogans and the like don’t adorn the walls and the bulletin boards because they are just talk. What he seeks, he said, is constant effort toward the goal of “competitive excellence,” a point he referred to often.

“My job as the head coach is to put a plan together,” Meyer said. “The plan is very simplistic. It’s not rocket science. You recruit really good players. If you’re lucky, you recruit great ones. Number two, hire great coaches. Everybody knows that.”

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PHATBUCK13 · 02-06-2012, 05:03 PM

PHATBUCK13 · 02-07-2012, 09:56 AM

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Bob Hunter commentary: Meyer shows Big Ten how to compete with SEC

Almost a week after Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema bristled over Ohio State coach Urban Meyer’s “illegal” recruiting tactics and Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio called the recruitment of committed players “unethical,” it’s interesting to see where things stand.

After a Friday discussion of these stink bombs by the Big Ten football coaches, they publicly acknowledged that there is no unwritten “gentleman’s agreement” regarding the continued recruitment of orally committed players. They admitted that Meyer has done nothing wrong. They say they are all on the “same page” on recruiting tactics, and that they are striving for improved respect for one another during this process.

What they didn’t say is more important, but it is so obvious that maybe they didn’t have to: The bar has been raised. The recruiting business has always been Keith Richards-ugly, but Meyer has upped the ante in the supposedly genteel Big Ten. He has given the league’s coaches a taste of the cut-throat, take-no-prisoners style of the Southeastern Conference. Now his coaching peers must either step up their game or fall behind.

Never has a coach who has yet to even set foot on a practice field had the impact on an entire league the way Meyer has. In two months, he has managed not only to restore the momentum the OSU program had lost during its recent scandal, but maybe even increase it. At a program that had won six consecutive Big Ten titles before a 6-7 season, that’s not easy to do.

That probably partially explains Bielema’s reaction. Just when it appeared that the scandals might cripple OSU for years to come, Meyer swooped in and got eight recruits to flip their commitments, including four from Penn State and one each from Wisconsin and Michigan State.

A class that figured to be one of OSU’s worst in years was suddenly ranked as high as No. 3 by the major scouting services, and the only other Big Ten program close to that was Michigan, signaling what could be the rebirth of the “Big Two and Little Eight.”

Bielema’s anger at losing previously committed offensive tackle Kyle Dodson to Ohio State is understandable; his public reaction to it bordered on embarrassing. Even though he said on signing day that he had “shared his thoughts and concerns” with Meyer and “the situation got rectified,” he told The Sporting News a day later that Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez was going to take his complaints to Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany. That led to another story where Alvarez said he was unaware of anything Meyer had done wrong.

Even if Bielema simply misspoke when he used the term “illegal,” his apparent outrage over Meyer’s recruitment of committed players seems bizarre: At the same time he was complaining about Meyer’s tactics, Bielema announced the signing of a recruit who had previously committed to Mississippi. In 2007, he landed five recruits who flipped their commitments from other schools.

But Bielema managed to win the trophy for the most amazing quote of the week when he spoke about the dangers posed by Meyer’s aggressive methods:

“I can tell you this,” he told The Sporting News. “We at the Big Ten don’t want to be like the SEC — in any way, shape or form.”

This is so absurd it’s almost laughable. In recent years, the gnashing of teeth in the Midwest over the SEC’s football dominance has been air-horn loud. The SEC’s six consecutive national championships, one achieved in the 2006 season when Meyer’s Florida team manhandled OSU in the title game, has had Big Ten fans sounding like a hallelujah chorus in demanding that their favorite league find some way to close the gap.

For that reason, the mini-furor created by Meyer’s scorched-earth recruiting policies and then quieted by the league’s coaches on Friday could be a scrapbook moment.

It is the first sign in a long time that the Big Ten might actually have a chance.

Bob Hunter commentary: Meyer shows Big Ten how to compete with SEC | Buckeye Xtra Sports

OSUBasketballJunkie · 02-08-2012, 11:54 AM

ozone.net

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Football
Meyer Captivates at Ohio High School Football Clinic

By Brandon Castel

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Hilton ballroom was just beginning to fill at Easton Town Center when Urban Meyer began his message early Friday morning.

Ohio State’s first-year head coach was scheduled to speak at 8 a.m., so naturally, he began at 7:45. By the time he hit his stride, more than 1,000 Ohio coaches had jammed into the room to have a ballad of wisdom dumped upon them.

As the seats filled to capacity, coaches crammed themselves into entryways and some were even forced to listen from the hallway as Meyer captivated his audience at the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association’s annual football clinic.

Those expecting to hear X’s and O’s from the two-time national champion were probably a bit surprised when Meyer spent the morning talking about being a “teacher” and about competitive excellence.

Every eye was glued to Meyer as he worked the front of the room, promising to continue the strong relationship Jim Tressel built with the football coaches and programs in the state of Ohio.

“In your minds, the answer is yes,” Meyer told the coaches on Friday.

“If you want to come down here and visit or go to practice or you want to talk or get film cut-ups, yes, yes, yes. The answer is yes.”

Meyer told the coaches that administrators Greg Gillum and Mark Pantoni will be charged with keeping an open line of communication between the high school programs around the state. He also spoke with the OHSFCA Board of Trustees about producing a weekly newsletter that will feature players, drills and the latest news from around Ohio.

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SuperBuckFan08 · 02-08-2012, 12:22 PM

If you've got the time, watch Urban speak at the OHSFCA. It's an hour long video but well worth it.

Urban Meyer Speaking at 2012 Ohio High School Football Coaches Association Clinic - YouTube

wesbranscum · 02-08-2012, 02:03 PM

i was at that clinic and even though i was late cause we stated ten miles away, infact around 20:48-21:00 you see me in a black shirt white hat walk in under the riddell sign hahaha, it was a powerful speak and you could tell there is goin to be change and its now..it was powerful

Killer Nut91 · 02-08-2012, 02:40 PM

HAHA loved the story about Earle Burce!

Damn is it football season yet!?