One of the greatest football coaches ever to wear the headset at Ohio State has one of the greatest and most honest wives you’ll ever meet. I mean, someone has to keep “Mr. three-time national championship winner” in check right?
Enter Shelley Meyer, Urban Meyer’s outspoken and loving wife, as well as the mother of his three kids. She’s been on this entire life journey from a graduate assistant at OSU all the way through becoming one of the winningest college football head coaches of all time.
Amazingly enough through that journey though, there’s never been a situation in which Meyer has been fired from a job. Never as an assistant, and never as a head coach at Bowling Green, Utah, Florida, or Ohio State. Apparently winning big at every stop shelters a guy from that sort of thing.
But when it comes to the NFL, Shelley told Urban to be ready because a pink slip seems to be the way of life in the big city. Not one to mince words, she was asked by the local FOX affiliate in Columbus what advice she had for her husband as he decided to take the job with the Jacksonville Jaguars, and she didn’t waste any time in telling it like it was.
“You do know you’re probably going to get fired,” Shelley said she told her husband. “So I just had to set him up for the possibility that it could happen, because it never has happened.”
When pressed on how the ultra-competitive and successful Meyer took that reality check, Shelley said her husband understood what he was getting into.
“‘He said, oh I know, I know,” Shelley continued. ‘”He said everybody gets fired. I’m okay with it, I am.”‘
For the first time since Urban Meyer became the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, Shelley Meyer is opening up about the decision to take a new job and a move down south. https://t.co/sQf51OAQEa pic.twitter.com/QR0a9M0GMf
— FOX 28 Columbus (@fox28columbus) February 24, 2021
We’ll find out soon enough what Meyer is made of in the NFL. He is being brought in to turn around a Jaguars franchise that has been reeling, but that also has a lot of chips it can play during the upcoming draft. He’ll be expected to win right away, and a lot of Buckeye fans can’t watch to see how it unfolds.
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