FLORIDA GATORS: Urban Meyer’s Announces Potential Return as Gators Coach in 2025
Florida’s current head coach, Billy Napier, is widely expected to be fired. Meyer, a three-time NCAA national champion who led the Gators to two BCS titles in 2006 and 2008, has shut down the possibility of returning to the sidelines in Gainesville in 2025.
Urban Meyer on potential return as Florida coach: ‘That ship has sailed’
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Napier is in his third season as head coach, but the Gators have appeared only to have gotten worse since his arrival. Florida hasn’t had four consecutive losing seasons since 1935-38 but is in danger of matching that level of futility with a losing record in 2024. “I want that program to do well, so bad,” Meyer added. “I know so many people there, and we gave a big part of our life to that program,” he continued before reiterating his main point. “But that ship has sailed,” he remarked. Meyer coached at Florida for six seasons (2005-10), leading the program to its last two national championships.
He went on to coach Ohio State for seven seasons (2012-18), during which time Meyer added a third national title to his resume. Meyer has been out of coaching since a disastrous 13-game stint as head coach of the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars. He went 2-11 and was fired after a scandal-filled tenure. Meyer rejoined Fox Sports as a college football analyst in 2022, and it appears that’s where he’ll stay.