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- Today I'm going to
tell you why Urban Meyer

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is going to be back

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on the sidelines coaching
sooner than later.

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Welcome to "Google is Free".

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I'm going to show you why
you shouldn't be surprised

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if Wisconsin, Nebraska, Arizona State,

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Georgia Tech or Colorado

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all take a swing at landing Urban Meyer.

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Every team I just named is looking

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for a new Head Coach and all
of them except Arizona State,

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'cause let's be real, at
one point had some sort

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of national brand when it
comes to college football.

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Now let's do a little bit of math.

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A sorry program that's dying
for national relevance,

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plus a historically amazing
college football coach

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who comes with a ton of baggage

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equals an Athletic Director throwing money

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at Urban Meyer to win now

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and to also be an embarrassment later.

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From the sporting news deep dive

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from a decade ago into how
Meyer created a toxic culture

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at Florida that broke the program,

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to being a domestic abuser
protector at Ohio State,

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where the school allowed him
to teach a leadership class

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after his scandalous
tenure as Head Coach ended,

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to the debacle with the
Jacksonville Jaguars

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that featured the hiring of an
alleged racist to his staff,

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giving Tim Tebow his 50
11th try at a NFL career,

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kicking one of his players

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and that whole situation
when he left his team

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to get drunk at a bar with young women.

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- And so I explained
everything that happened

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and owned it and just stupid,

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should not have myself
in that kind of position.

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- To Fox Sports bringing him back

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after all of that to talk
about football on TV.

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Look at this picture.

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This is the man that knows he can get

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away with anything and
people will still hire him.

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Now, take a look at this clip of the folks

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in Nebraska going crazy over Meyer.

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(fans cheering)

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Google will remind you that in 2019,

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Jim Harbaugh said this about Meyer.

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"A really phenomenal record
everywhere he's been,

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but also controversy follows
everywhere he's been."

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Truer words have never been spoke.

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Given his record against Urban Meyer,

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Jim Harbaugh knows that Urban
Meyer will win you games,

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but he'll also bring the drama

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and myself and Google
understand that schools

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are so desperate that they'll do anything

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to win on Saturdays.

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Remember when Hue Jackson
tried to hire Art Briles

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at Grambling State earlier this year?

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And if that can happen there,

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it means that Urban Meyer is
definitely getting courted

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by some Power Five teams.

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Oh, and for all the Ohio
State fans watching this

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who still love Urban Meyer,

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got two words for you.

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Go Blue.

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My name is Carter Phillips.

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Thanks for watching and
stick with Deadspin.