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What an awful take...
OSU similarly had been a decade since their last natty appearance in 02 when urban showed up and again STALE under achiever relative to talent and expectations
If anything Florida is a pretty **** good example of a similar situation where he moved the mark of a perennial underachiever..... see a theme?
Texas won a natty last in 05 and last played in one in 09.... pretty recent... Toss in the fact that Texas is legit one of the richest schools they can give urban whatever he wants in the name of being “back”
No, what you wrote is an awful take. OSU posted double digit wins every season since 2005, right up to hiring Meyer. He stepped into a very good program that just won 12 games.
When Spurrier left UF in 2001, they were ranked #3. Then they finished ranked #24, #24, #25 and Zook got fired before the end of his 3rd season. They were still a top 25 team the entire time Zook was there and he didn’t even make it a full 3 years. That means there were still players from that #3 team still on the roster. You are insane if you think that anyone believes Spurrier at UF or Tressel at OSU were underachievers.
If I'm not mistaken, the 2005 and 2009 Texas teams were the first since 1971 to play for the national title. Given the resources, that is terrible. 2 title games in 50 years? By comparison, I think Miami played in 7 title games in 40 years.
I'm not knocking Meyer or saying he can't win there. The dude is one of the best of all time. What I'm saying is that to have that much money and not have 5 or 6 titles or even more championship appearances in 50 years means the program has issues it looks like money hasn't been able to permanently fix. Of course Meyer CAN succeed there. But as has been said many, many times a HC at Texas has to spend half his time kissing the asses of boosters. Everyone knows this. Meyer doesn't strike me as a guy who wants to spend the next few years under the thumb of billionaire big shots at this point of his life. Now I haven't met the guy personally so I could be wrong, but he seems like a dude with a pretty big ego.
Anyways it's going to be easy to figure out which one of us is right. We'll see if takes the job or not.
BTW, the rumors are that if Meyer turns it down, then Texas will make a huge pitch for Dan Mullen. That would be delightful for recruiting, don't you think?
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