re: Urban Meyer, Steve Spurrier, or Will Muschamp?

For one game? Meyer

For one season? Meyer

For 5 years? Meyer

For a decade? Spurrier, no question about it.


I think Meyer is a great coach, but I'm not sure he can build and sustain a program. He took over Florida and Ohio State teams stacked with talent and made the most of them, but Florida absolutely fell apart in 2010, and he left a bad situation for Muschamp initially. Meanwhile, Spurrier made Florida into what we know it to be today and he sustained that success for a decade, and then he turned a historically awful South Carolina program into a consistent, sustained winner while totally overhauling his offensive philosophy. Plus, Meyer just seems like he'll quit the minute the going gets tough. Lose to Alabama in the 2009 SECCG with a Florida team predicted to repeat as BCS Champs? Quit. Going gets tough when it's time to rebuild in 2010? Quit.

To me, what Meyer did at Florida and Ohio State is nowhere near comparable to what Spurrier did at South Carolina or what Saban did at LSU, since both of those programs were veritable dumpster fires.