Two coaching jobs ago, this at the time A+ list college coach had people place bets for him in games against much smaller schools.

He knew he could control whether or not his team could cover a 30-40 point spread.

Urban Meyer
Florida Gators

This is the most unforgiveable part of the Urban Meyer bar video calamity

The fastest way for an NFL head coach to lose his team is for him to lose the respect of his locker room.

And right now, it appears Urban Meyer has about as much credibility inside the Jaguars’ locker room as Oscar Mayer.

Meyer — the former college coach at Florida and Ohio State, whom Jaguars owner Shad Khan fell hard for because of his gaudy résumé and popularity in north Florida — is just four games into his NFL coaching career and he has already made a mess of it.

It’s difficult to pinpoint which of Meyer’s recent transgressions was the worst:

Not joining his players on the team plane ride home after a difficult Thursday night loss at Cincinnati a week and a half ago.

Being caught on camera in a compromising dance-grind position with a woman who’s not his wife — at his own Ohio restaurant-bar, no less.

The subsequent series of apologies and excuse-making in the damage-control tour that has followed. – Source

Jaguars coach Urban Meyer promises not to miss another team flight

WATFORD, England — Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer promised Friday to not miss another team flight.

The last time he did, Meyer ended up embarrassing the franchise and drawing a public reprimand from owner Shad Khan after videos surfaced of the coach’s behavior in an Ohio bar.

Meyer, speaking outside London ahead of Sunday’s game against the Miami Dolphins, had opted not to fly back with his winless team following Jacksonville’s 24-21 loss at Cincinnati on Sept. 30, a Thursday night. It’s a highly unusual move for any coach, but Meyer said Friday that he had given the players three days off and his coaches two days off after the loss. He said he stayed in Ohio to visit his grandsons.

“Yeah, I look back now … I talked to our GM about it. It didn’t seem like a big deal, but yeah that’s something I won’t do,” Meyer said Friday.

Instead of joining his team on the flight, Meyer remained in his home state of Ohio to see family members and went to dinner that Friday at his restaurant/bar in Columbus, Urban Meyer’s Pint House.

The first video shows a young woman dancing between the 57-year-old Meyer’s legs as he was sitting on a bar stool. The second, taken from a different angle, shows Meyer’s right hand on or near her bottom.

Khan publicly reprimanded Meyer for the coach’s “inexcusable” behavior and said Meyer must “regain our trust and respect.” Meyer had earlier apologized to his family, his team and Khan for actions he called “just stupid.”

The Jaguars slipped to their 20th consecutive loss in a 37-19 defeat to the Tennessee Titans last Sunday. – Source

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