The college football world has been as chaotic as ever this season, with several notable programs making coaching changes. Among the schools now searching for a new head coach are Florida, Penn State, Arkansas and Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n
During a recent appearance on The Triple Option podcast, College Football Hall of Famer Urban Meyer shared which job he believes stands above the rest. It\u2019s the one he once called home.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not even close and I think it\u2019s Florida<\/a>,\u201d Meyer said.<\/p>\n Meyer, who led the Gators to national titles in 2006 and 2008, explained why he chose Florida over Notre Dame when he made a similar decision two decades ago.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m Irish Catholic. I still love Notre Dame and not many people know this story, but I was offered both jobs,\u201d Meyer said. \u201cA lot of people thought I was going to South Bend, but Florida\u2019s a better job. It\u2019s the recruiting, and at that point in my life, I had young kids at home.\u201d<\/p>\n Meyer went on to explain why geography gives Florida an edge over schools like Penn State and Notre Dame.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is why I\u2019m saying it\u2019s ahead of\u00a0Penn State because when you recruit at\u00a0Notre Dame\u00a0or\u00a0Penn State, you\u2019re on a plane half the time,\u201d said Meyer. \u201cWhen you\u2019re at\u00a0Notre Dame, because I did it as an assistant coach, you\u2019re recruiting Seattle, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Arizona, Dallas, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Detroit and Chicago. At\u00a0Florida, you\u2019re a 45-minute flight from your recruiting base. I had two planes and they said I could be home at night. I said this is a no-brainer.\u201d<\/p>\n Not a member of Gators Online?<\/p>\n CLICK HERE<\/a>\u00a0to join the Gators Online community! It\u2019s the top place for passionate Florida fans to find the best insight and news in the market.\u00a0<\/p>\n Boasting a talented collection of experienced journalists, we dig deep into recruiting and provide breaking news and analysis on UF sports.<\/p>\n SIGN UP<\/a>\u00a0for the\u00a0GatorsOnline Newsletter\u00a0\u2014 Receive Breaking News, In-Depth Analysis via Email!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The college football world has been as chaotic as ever this season, with several notable programs making coaching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,4504,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-247528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-regwall","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}