Vols Last Shot at Meyer in the Swamp?

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ranradVOL said:
Here's to hoping you get a new avatar. I feel like you're gonna ask me if I wanna hop in your windowless van and go to the circus every time you post.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Seriously though, I have a van and you're most certainly invited.

It's more of a warning to take everything I say as a joke because, more often than not, it probably is.
 
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Wishful thinking, IMO. Weis will get fired. The Domers will offer Meyer a truly obscene, unprecedented amount of money. UF will grit their teeth and come close enough to matching it that Meyer will stay.

I don't underestimate the lure of the Golden Dome to a Catholic boy from the midwest, nor the appeal of rebuilding their legendary program and becoming the first coach to win NCs at two different schools. But if he leaves, I think it's going eventually going to be to the NFL.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Wishful thinking, IMO. Weis will get fired. The Domers will offer Meyer a truly obscene, unprecedented amount of money. UF will grit their teeth and come close enough to matching it that Meyer will stay.

I don't underestimate the lure of the Golden Dome to a Catholic boy from the midwest, nor the appeal of rebuilding their legendary program and becoming the first coach to win NCs at two different schools. But if he leaves, I think it's going eventually going to be to the NFL.
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All coaches leave at some point. I think Meyer's next move will be a bit later when his youngest son Nate is out of HS.

However if Meyer does leave UF after winning 3NCs in 4 years, I'll forever thank him for taking our football program to another level. UF has deep enough pockets to find a suitable replacement.

Ron Zook need not apply.
 
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I don't see why he doesn't go to ND if they offer, other than money. He's done just about everything possible at UF. I know he likes to rebuild teams, and Notre Dame needs it.
 
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I don't think he goes anywhere except the NFL and that won't be for a while. Until he can prove that he can win at UF with a more traditional offense.
 
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I fully believe he would go to ND. Urban is a ND homer, always has been.


I dont care either way..."To be the best, you have to beat the best."
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Wishful thinking, IMO. Weis will get fired. The Domers will offer Meyer a truly obscene, unprecedented amount of money. UF will grit their teeth and come close enough to matching it that Meyer will stay.

I don't underestimate the lure of the Golden Dome to a Catholic boy from the midwest, nor the appeal of rebuilding their legendary program and becoming the first coach to win NCs at two different schools. But if he leaves, I think it's going eventually going to be to the NFL.
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One thing to think about in my opinion is the fact that Florida is going to lose Tebow and probably most of their defense to the draft. He is going to have to start over anyways and Notre Dame has plenty of talent themselves to work with. He will essentially be starting over whether he stays at Florida or not. That's not to say he won't field a competitive next year if he stays at Florida but they lose five games was it the year after they beat Ohio State?

Two... winning a national championship at Notre Dame will trump winning a championship at any other school.
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
All coaches leave at some point. I think Meyer's next move will be a bit later when his youngest son Nate is out of HS.

However if Meyer does leave UF after winning 3NCs in 4 years, I'll forever thank him for taking our football program to another level. UF has deep enough pockets to find a suitable replacement.

Ron Zook need not apply.
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You guys could always pick up Fulmer. In fact we Vol fans would highly encourage it!
 
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Whether Meyer leaves or stays, the continued success of UF's program at the level they have enjoyed the past few years goes hand-in-hand with continued struggles of the Miami and FSU programs. When one or both of those schools get some recruiting momentum (very likely to happen soon IMO since both of those programs are either going to have success or new head football coaches very soon), UF will have a significant talent drop off. The Gators will not go back to their pre-1990s form overnight, but when recruiting slips even a little it's a slippery slope into mediocrity (see UTK over the past few years).
 
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HKYvol14 said:
I fully believe he would go to ND. Urban is a ND homer, always has been.


I dont care either way..."To be the best, you have to beat the best."
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I agree but at the same time, Meyer has been superior to everyone in recent years. I'll take beating the next best to win it all. Carrol. Meyer, Saban and Richt isn't an easy task. I'd rather only have to beat Saban and Richt to get to Carrol, Tessel, Brown or Stoops.
 
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ranradVOL said:
Here's to hoping you get a new avatar. I feel like you're gonna ask me if I wanna hop in your windowless van and go to the circus every time you post.
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My insides are hurting. I'm still laughing.
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
All coaches leave at some point. I think Meyer's next move will be a bit later when his youngest son Nate is out of HS.

However if Meyer does leave UF after winning 3NCs in 4 years, I'll forever thank him for taking our football program to another level. UF has deep enough pockets to find a suitable replacement.

Ron Zook need not apply.
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I've argued before that you guys would be better served for Meyer to leave in the next few years than to have him decide to settle down and retire in Gainesville. Better the legend leave too soon than to have him hang on for years and years and years while you're stuck with him.
 
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Something that just crossed my mind... Let's say Meyer does go to Notre Dame. I'll says it's 50-50. Could we see Gruden at Florida? He knows the area after being with the Buc's. If that were to happen, I wouldn't expect much of a drop off.
 
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I too believe that Meyer will end up at Notre Dame. His ego and of course $ will drive him to take the job. He's already on record as saying that's his dream job. Dreams rarely change.
 
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The_Orange_Pearl said:
Two... winning a national championship at Notre Dame will trump winning a championship at any other school.
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No coach has ever won national championships at two schools. If he were the first guy to do that, and the second school were to be Notre Dame, of all places....well, at that point he quits being a merely great coach and starts being mentioned in the argument about the greatest college coach of all time. That would be an awfully tempting ego move for a guy who will have accomplished everything possible at Florida.

I still think he goes to the NFL if anywhere, though.
 
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The_Orange_Pearl said:
Something that just crossed my mind... Let's say Meyer does go to Notre Dame. I'll says it's 50-50. Could we see Gruden at Florida? He knows the area after being with the Buc's. If that were to happen, I wouldn't expect much of a drop off.
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I still think Gruden will go somewhere in the NFL soon. He may surprise me.
 
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jarhead said:
I too believe that Meyer will end up at Notre Dame. His ego and of course $ will drive him to take the job. He's already on record as saying that's his dream job. Dreams rarely change.
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I think the only way he'd make more money is off some kind of endorsements. I believe Florida can and will match anything Notre Dame offers. You're right about his ego though and that may be why he goes. Even with another championship, I and just everyone else will still view him in the same class as Pete Carrol. If you win a championship at Notre Dame, just one.... you're a legend. Especially this day in age. Despite all of their failures, they clearly have the largest fan base in the country. They have their own contract with NBC. They are the Cowboys, Lakers, Celtics, Yankees etc.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
No coach has ever won national championships at two schools. If he were the first guy to do that, and the second school were to be Notre Dame, of all places....well, at that point he quits being a merely great coach and starts being mentioned in the argument about the greatest college coach of all time. That would be an awfully tempting ego move for a guy who will have accomplished everything possible at Florida.

I still think he goes to the NFL if anywhere, though.
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Could be right. I just see him at the college level because of all of the success. Not to mention he is probably already making more money than most NFL coaches. With what he has done at the college level and possibility of being the greatest... there are only a few NFL coaching jobs I'd look at. Cowboys, 49ers, Packers, Bears and Steelers would probably be about it. That's only because I agree with everyone about his ego and those teams have a lot of history.
 
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gavol2572 said:
I still think Gruden will go somewhere in the NFL soon. He may surprise me.
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Would be kind of cool to see Monte vs. Gruden. You're pry right. It would probably be hard to go from being an NFL head coach who won a Super Bowl to being the head coach of a college football team.
 
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