tiznow wrote:Urban was just on the Dan Dakitch show. A lot of BG talk. Urban called Dan his best friend.
Seriously, where can I hear the DD show? Sounds like fun.
Fox college coverage blows several types of pack animals. They had a dumb clock for counting UP the amount of time OU was taking between snaps, but not one showing the play clock, as do most network broadcasters now. Dumb.
The game was good, but the production sucked.
Great to see Urban win though. I may have to bump Florida up to my #2 favorite team.
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Staying Put
BG Sentinel Feature on BGSU Football Coach Urban Meyer
Dec. 6, 2002
By JACK CARLE Sentinel Sports Editor
Urban Meyer's two-year anniversary is today. It was on Dec. 4, 2000 Meyer was named Bowling Green's head football coach, replacing Gary Blackney who resigned after 10 years.
Meyer took over a team which had endured six straight losing seasons. In Meyer's first two seasons the Falcons are 17-6 overall, including an 11-5 mark in the Mid-American Conference. The Falcons, 9-3 this season, won their first eight games this fall, were ranked as high as No. 16 in the country, were the brief flavor-of-the-month for the national media and had one of the nation's highest-scoring offenses.
It's Bowling Green's success and Meyer's contagious, enthusiastic approach which have put his name into the national spotlight every time there is a new head coaching opening. The Detroit newspapers consider Meyer a prime candidate for the vacant Michigan State job. Reports from Wyoming have the athletic director from that school attending last Saturday's Bowling Green-Toledo game to get a first-hand look at Meyer. However, Meyer says there is unfinished business in Bowling Green and he wants an opportunity to take the Falcons to the MAC championship and a bowl game.
"We are nowhere near what we can do here. That's what's driving me right now," Meyer said Tuesday afternoon. "Everybody's worried about those other places; nothing's going on."
"I was contacted by one, but I'm not interested. I love it here. We have a lot of work to do. That's the bottom line."
Meyer said the talk of him leaving started when he took the Bowling Green job. Coaches from other schools tell recruits Meyer is not going to stay with the Falcons.
"With recruits, that's been for two years, even before we won," he said. "(They say) "that guy's not going to be there very long"; that's silly ... The future is fantastic here ... I'm proud to be the football coach here.
"Once they get to know me, know my family, know how important it is to have continuity, my kids going to school somewhere."
The Falcons' success has other schools also looking at Bowling Green's assistant coaches. Meyer is worried about keeping his coaching staff intact for a third straight season.
Meyer said Gregg Brandon, the offensive coordinator, and Tim Beckman, the defensive coordinator, and other staff members could be hot commodities this off-season.
The Falcon offensive coaches have been invited to discuss their strategy and philosophy to the members of the American Football Coaches Association.
"It's an honor. Our coaches are excited ... that's a chance for them to better themselves," Meyer said. "As a head football coach, it's a problem, but I'm proud of them."
"If we lose one, I think we can hire a good one." As for the players, Meyer demands a lot from them, including representing the football program and the university in a positive light at every opportunity.
Among other things, Meyer has changed the team's attitude, helped improve the weight training facility, and redone the locker room.
The final piece of the puzzle is a new athletic facility, which would benefit the university and the athletic department as well as the football team.
"I think you all but guarantee that you are one of the top two, three teams in the league every year if you get that here," Meyer said about the new facility. "I feel so strong about the academics, about the community, the environment, about the people. It's the last piece; it's a significant piece. "The problem is, the piece is not going to come from the student body. Someone's going to have to dive into it."
Meyer has preliminary drawings of such a facility in his office with an estimate of at least $9 million to complete. "It needs to be addressed. I saw the scoreboards at Northern Illinois and (Toledo). Kids like to see that kind of stuff," Meyer said. "We have the indoor. Some of those places don't have indoors, which is big time."
Fox's coverage of bowl games is below par, but what should we expect? The network goes all regular season without covering a college football game and then handles the most important games at the end of the year. Does that seem right to you? Imagine if I decided to skip fall camp and the first 11 games of BG's season before showing up on Toledo week. My product would suck too.
So yeah, the NCAA and not Fox is at fault here. If the NCAA's objective was to showcase a quality product on its grandest stage, it would have chosen ESPN or ABC to do it. Don't hate the player (Fox), hate the game (Bidding war for the right to cover BCS games).
On that note, when does ESPN's contract with the BCS begin? I suspect it's either next year or the following year.
Instead of whining about him leaving, which happened six years ago, can't people just get over it and enjoy his success. Every time they talk about him they mention Bowling Green, it's not like they're snubbing the school.
cw08 wrote:Instead of whining about him leaving, which happened six years ago, can't people just get over it and enjoy his success. Every time they talk about him they mention Bowling Green, it's not like they're snubbing the school.
Hmmmmmmm.
There was ONE copy of an article [historical reference] and you pour out a blanket statement about whining.
You were just waiting in the wings to pounce. You know, I don't know what you have but I'm sure there are psychiatrists out there waiting to study you. Maybe they can name the affliction after your pet box turtle.
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cw08 wrote:Instead of whining about him leaving, which happened six years ago, can't people just get over it and enjoy his success. Every time they talk about him they mention Bowling Green, it's not like they're snubbing the school.
Hmmmmmmm.
There was ONE copy of an article [historical reference] and you pour out a blanket statement about whining.
You were just waiting in the wings to pounce. You know, I don't know what you have but I'm sure there are psychiatrists out there waiting to study you. Maybe they can name the affliction after your pet box turtle.
I was going to quote it, but for the sake of the wheel on your mouse, I didn't. But yea, it pisses me off to no end that people have such ex-boyfriend-like envy towards Meyer. It's so outdated.
cw08 wrote:Instead of whining about him leaving, which happened six years ago, can't people just get over it and enjoy his success. Every time they talk about him they mention Bowling Green, it's not like they're snubbing the school.
Hmmmmmmm.
There was ONE copy of an article [historical reference] and you pour out a blanket statement about whining.
You were just waiting in the wings to pounce. You know, I don't know what you have but I'm sure there are psychiatrists out there waiting to study you. Maybe they can name the affliction after your pet box turtle.
I was going to quote it, but for the sake of the wheel on your mouse, I didn't. But yea, it pisses me off to no end that people have such ex-boyfriend-like envy towards Meyer. It's so outdated.
I think what RUIT was getting at was the fact that there has been only people with one post each in this entire thread who seemed to harvest any ill-will towards Urbie, and your post made it seem like no one here is happy about the man's success, like you're some kind of bigger person because you could let it go and others couldn't.
