Pretty deep dive on how Urban has changed at Ohio St.
The issues that keep Urban Meyer up at night
Marotti says that in the early years of his Ohio State tenure, Meyer would return from vacation armed with ideas to help make his guys better football players. Now, Meyer is consumed with finding ways to help his players better navigate what the head coach sees as a very volatile world around them.
“It’s probably 80–20 now,” Meyer says, explaining where his focus lies between real-world issues and football-related matters. “When I was younger, it was probably 30–70 more football.
“This is a topic of conversation among my colleagues in the profession now. It’s constant now. Fifteen years ago, no. Back then it was,
Tell me about the spread offense. Tell me about punt return. Now it’s about the mental and well-being of your players.”
Meyer has honed his staff’s focus onto the management of four key issues: Sexual assault and harassment on campus; drugs; depression/anxiety; and concussions.
...also very interesting to read about when they had a team meeting about the Kaepernick protest, Meyer said the players had the right to do what they wanted and he would respect their decision. The team ended up not protesting, but instead work in the community together. They would rather do something to help in the community than just do something symbolically.