Early coaching careerįollowing the end of his playing career, Meyer took one season to intern as a defensive back coach at Saint Xavier High School in 1985, in Cincinnati, Ohio. By then he had twenty years of college coaching experience, which included nine as head coach. Urban Meyer Coaching careerīoth sportswriters (Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year), and television commentators (Home Depot Coach of the Year Award) acknowledged Urban as the college football coach of the year in 2004. Meyer received an annual salary of $8 million and has gathered up an accumulative net worth of $35 million as of 2021. He recently was the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars before being fired and has built a reputation in coaching. The lovebirds are happily married with three children together and reside in Jacksonville, Florida.Īmerican football coach and former college player have been a college coach for almost all his coaching career. The couple met at Cincinnati while studying, and she was a freshman nursing student, at Sigma Chi’s Derby Days philanthropy event. In 1986, Meyer married his longtime girlfriend Shelley Mather Meyer. Meyer also is a practicing Roman Catholic. In college, he played defensive back and was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity (Zeta Psi Chapter). He played for two seasons in minor league baseball in the Braves organization. Meyer was a great player in high school and was picked in the 13th round of the 1982 Major League Baseball Draft by the Atalanta Braves as a shortstop. He participated in football in high school and college. Meyer then joined Ohio State University and graduated with a master’s degree in sports administration in 1988. He then attended the University of Cincinnati, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1986. Meyer joined and studied at Saint John High School, graduating in 1982. Urban is among the three coaches together with Nick Saban and Pop Warner to win a major college football national championship at two Universities. He guided the Buckeyes to their first Big Ten Conference title in 2014, during his time and the program’s eighth national championship.
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By the end of the 2009 season, his winning percentage (.842) was the highest among all active coaches with a minimum of five full seasons at a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) program.Īfter Meyer’s temporary retirement in 2011, he served as a college football analyst for the television sports network ESPN, prior to joining Ohio State as their head coach. Previously, he coached the Gators to two BCS National Championship Game wins, in the 20 seasons. Urban came out of retirement in 2021, to become the head coach of the Jaguars, his first NFL job. He remained at Ohio State as an assistant athletic director and was an analyst for Fox Sports, appearing weekly on their Big Noon Kickoff pre-game show. Meyer retired from his coaching profession in 2019 by the conclusion of the Rose Bowl.
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