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Report: Urban Meyer a strong candidate to become Cowboys head coach
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The rumor mill never stops spinning in the world of football, but it does increase in speed the closer the offseason gets. And with the college football season winding down and the NFL in the second half of the year, the coaching carousel is twirling at full speed.
Urban Meyer’s name has been mentioned with several potential jobs this year, most notably USC, Florida State and even Notre Dame. Really, anytime there’s even the thought that there could be a change, Meyer’s name has been mentioned.
Speculation on Meyer’s future has trickled into the NFL, though. With the Dallas Cowboys continuing to play average football on Sunday afternoons, there’s increasing belief that owner Jerry Jones will part ways with Jason Garrett and start searching for a replacement.
Meyer is one of the names on that list.
According to Mike Freeman of Bleacher Report, there’s an “increasing belief” that Garrett’s time in Dallas is running out and that Meyer would be one of the leading candidates for the job. Josh McDaniels was another name that surfaced, as well.
“Meyer would be a Jones kind of hire,” Freeman wrote. “He’s high-profile, known as a football savant, and to Jones he’d bring instant credibility to the job. He’d also be a risky choice. He’s never been a head coach in the NFL, and getting respect from a professional locker room is a vastly different enterprise than getting respect in a college one.”
Meyer has had tremendous success at each of his stops at the college level: Bowling Green, Utah, Florida and Ohio State. And he said earlier this year on The Herd with Colin Cowherd that he would absolutely listen to a pitch from the Cowboys, citing it as one of the premier jobs in all of football.
Obviously, Meyer lacks NFL experience, but it may be a risk worth taking for Jones and the organization.
Dustin grew up in the heart of Big Ten country and has been in sports media since 2010. He has been covering Big Ten football since 2014. You can follow him on Twitter: @SchutteCFB