It appears Urban Meyer is headed back to FOX’s Big Noon Kickoff for the 2022 college football season. Whatever his issues in the NFL, the network is banking on Meyer’s three national championships still giving him credibility with college football fans. Tuesday morning on Sports Radio 610 in Houston, Payne & Pendergast said they weren’t so sure.
Before the segment even began, Sean Pendergast teased it by calling Meyer “a phony” on his way to break. When the du came back from commercial, Seth Payne noted that it isn’t just about Urban Meyer having a history of lying when he finds himself in trouble that troubles college football fans. It is how bad the former coach is at it.
Payne said that the infamous video showing a woman dancing on Meyer’s lap at his steakhouse in Columbus, Ohio is going to make it hard for him to have the same persona he did during his first stint on FOX.
“It’s gonna be hard sometimes when he gets up and talks about the grander ideals of sacrifice and things like that, because the more I heard about Urban Meyer in the NFL, I feel like the foundation of a lot of the things he talks about is fraudulent,” Payne said. “If he could just talk about football without some of the grandstanding or some of the air of superiority he has about him, that would be cool.”
Sean Pendergast said that would be impossible. The last time Meyer was on Big Noon Kickoff, college football was in a completely different world than it is now. He may not have the credibility necessary to talk about the issues currently facing the sport.
“The bigger, broader issues that are going to get talked about in college football now are things like NIL and the transfer portal that strike at the heart of the emotional issues of college football, the commitment issues of college football. How can he comment about commitment when he is in a viral video with a woman who is not his wife sitting on his lap and fondling her butt?”
Seth Payne, who played in the NFL for eleven years, says that fans will make jokes, but football people have outright dismissed Urban Meyer. He said that an NFL coach abandoning his team after a road loss and not flying home with them was “shocking” to people that played and coached in the NFL.
