Former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer had been around the game of football a long time. He is well versed in standard football terms like, snap, read-option, move the chains, etc. Some are even newer terms like RPO (run, pass, option), back-shoulder throws, and more. Still, he knows them, we know them, and even Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh knows a handful of football terms we hear.
However, as coaches begin their coaching careers and interact with other coaches, players, and personalities, they start to develop their own terminology unique to the way they do things. Meyer is no different.
As Meyer told FOX College Football host Rob Stone, some terminology he came up with and has used in over 40 years of coaching were often a product of something he saw, heard, or came up with in the inertia of simply being on the field and responding to interactions along the way.
We won’t give it away for you, but if you watch the complete two minute or so segment Stone and Meyer engage in, you might pick up a thing or two.
📕 @CoachUrbanMeyer pulls out the dictionary on #BigNoonKickoff pic.twitter.com/eCBlIobL4j
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) November 14, 2020
Of course our favorite of all of these has to be the same one that Woody Hayes used and Meyer adopted. That’s not a new term around these parts, and there’s little doubt that it’ll ever go out of style.
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