Urban Meyer has pulled a Tom Brady multiple times over the years, but it seems he will finally put his coaching years behind him.
The three-time national champion and head coach of 17 years was fired by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the middle of the 2021 season — the only season he spent with the team — and hasn’t returned to the sidelines since.
His track record, however, of having retired two other times only to later return kept people asking questions.
Last week, Meyer was asked if he would consider coming out of retirement again — for a third time — in a roundtable discussion for Ohio State’s annual coaches clinic.
“That book’s closed,” he said during a roundtable with current Ohio State head coach Ryan Day and former head coaches Jim Tressel and John Cooper, according to Eleven Warriors. “It’s gonna be TV and grandfather.”
Meyer, 58, first retired in 2010 after winning two national championships with Florida.
But he decided to return to coach Ohio State in 2012 and stayed for seven seasons, accumulating an 83-9 record and a national championship in 2014.
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Meyer left Ohio State and retired for a second time after a season in which he was suspended for three games due to his handling of domestic abuse allegations against assistant coach Zach Smith.
Meyer also cited repeated headaches caused by a cyst as a reason for stepping away.
Yet, that retirement wasn’t permanent.
He returned to coaching just two years later to lead the Jaguars, which resulted in a dismal stretch with only two wins after 13 games and other troubling actions inside and outside the team environment.
Doug Pederson came in the next season and turned things around for the team, leading Jacksonville to a 9-8 record and to the divisional playoff round against the Chiefs.
“It feels good to be part of a professional locker room, not only when you’re in the locker room but when you’re talking to the coaches. It’s a professional setting,” outside linebacker Josh Allen said in July about Pederson. “He’s talking to us like grown men. Nothing but respect.”
It appears that Meyer will continue as a college football analyst for Fox Sports, mainly on the Big Noon Kickoff show.
