November 7, 2024

Inside Urban Meyer's life after football at Ohio State

8:54 AM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio — Urban Meyer is here, in this office half the size of his old one, in large part because of where he was in 2018. The season began with Meyer’s highly publicized three-game suspension. And his career was questioned again when he dropped to one knee on the sideline, his left hand bracing his head, his play sheet falling to the ground during Ohio State’s game against Indiana. The scene spurred Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith to call Meyer into his office the following week, where he met with Smith and those closest to the head coach on game day, including the head athletic trainer, team doctor and director of football operations. Smith wanted a “management plan” for Meyer. The sideline incident was the product of years of issues Meyer had suffered due to an abnormally large arachnoid cyst on his brain. Doctors diagnosed…

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