Like father like son — sort of. Urban Meyer’s son Nate, who was already a scholarship athlete with the Cincinnati Bearcats baseball team, has reportedly switched sports and joined the football program as a walk-on. Bearcats’s head coach Luke Fickell told Pete Thamel of Yahoo! Sports that he wants to follow in his dad’s footsteps and become a coach.
He has also switched his major from business to psychology, which is the same major Urban had. Many have pointed to that background as a key in his ability to motivate players and teams throughout his career.
From Thamel:
He’s switching sports to better prepare himself for his goal of becoming a college football coach, as he’s hoping to follow in his father’s footsteps.
Nate Meyer will be a junior in the fall and has already begun taking part in Zoom calls with the Bearcats wide receivers. Fickell said that special teams likely looms as his best chance to contribute.
Nate Meyer is looking forward to the experience to help him on his coaching path.
“Dad, I made a decision. I changed my major to psychology like you were and I want to be a football coach,” Urban Meyer said with a laugh by phone on Wednesday. “I thought, ‘Oh boy.’”
Nate Meyer said his father has been supportive and excited about the move. His mother, Shelley, was a bit more hesitant. Nate Meyer also joins his brother-in-law, Ohio State quarterback coach Corey Dennis, in the family profession. “Oh, God,” Nate Meyer said, recalling his mother’s reaction. “There’s another one going on this path.”
Nate could often be seen on the sidelines with his father before, during, and after football games Urban was coaching at Ohio State. He’s grown up with the game being a part of the family, and there’s obviously a dream there he wants to try and pursue. We say good on you Nate.
We’ll have to keep an eye on how this all transpires down at Cincinnati and beyond. If he’s gotten anything from his dad as far as competitiveness and drive, look out football world.
