Ex-Buckeye Cardale Jones says Urban Meyer will never coach again

Former Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer was fired by the Jacksonville Jaguars earlier this month after a disastrous 2021 season that's been littered with controversy and plenty of losing.

The firing came on the heels of reports that he called his assistant coaches "losers" as well as an allegation from former team kicker Josh Lambo that Meyer demeaned and even kicked him earlier in the season.

Of course, there was the controversy of his getting a bit too friendly with a young female in a bar AFTER having decided not to return to Jacksonville with the team following a game against the Cleveland Browns.

Former Buckeyes star Cardale Jones, who won a national title with Meyer as coach in Columbus, recently gave an interview with TMZ Sports and stated his belief that Meyer was finished coaching.

“Urban is a hell of a competitor,” Jones answered. “I don’t know if he’d want to coach college football again in this era with NIL and the transfer portal. I can see that also forcing him to tweak some of the ways he goes about his business when it comes to recruiting and coaching. But I do see him in another competitive world. Maybe it’s back to broadcasting … I don’t think coaching in his future.”

“Urban is at a point in his career where he had so much success coaching a certain way,” Jones said. “It’s almost like the term you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Urban’s ways made him who he is. Those ways are a little behind us when it comes not to just to society but football. I don’t see him really going back to college and doing some of the things that he’s accustomed to doing to build a team and a culture."

“That’s why it might not have worked in the NFL. I wouldn’t say it’s outdated because he was just coaching college three years ago and they won the Rose Bowl, it’s just times have changed. I don’t know if he’s willing to make that sacrifice and change in his demeanor, his personality, his coaching style to keep up with times today.”