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Meyer's Life Decision Turns to Mush

Dec 27, 2009 – 9:00 PM
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Jay Mariotti

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Urban MeyerNEW ORLEANS -- I am trying to understand the fluctuations of the human mind, the magnetic pull of pride and ego, the seductive appeal of coaching, the spinning roulette wheel inside a man's head. Sorry, I'm completely baffled this time. Mind explaining, Urban Meyer, what those very bizarre 24 hours were just about?

All your anguish about slipping in and out of consciousness in the back of an ambulance, your heart heaving in pain and feeling heavier than a barge, your mortality teetering much too early at age 45? All your tears when telling your team Saturday that you were leaving the Florida football program for health reasons, sounding like you'd never return? All the hugs and emotion at home on Christmas Day, when you told your wife and three children that you were retiring from coaching, when your oldest daughter proclaimed, "I get my daddy back!'' and you suggested the scene with her was a message from God?
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