Urban Meyer’s preaching the gospel on why football teams struggle goes viral (Video)
Urban Meyer shared his coaching philosophy on Big Noon Kickoff and it’s no wonder why he won three national championships in his career.
Urban Meyer gave a coaching clinic on FOX’s Big Noon Kickoff that high-profile coaches at struggling programs should be sure to watch. For programs like LSU, Penn State and Michigan who entered the season with expectations only to struggle under the weight of those expectations, Meyer boiled down their problems down to three root causes.
Trust issues, dysfunctional environment and selfishness are the causes of inner strife and when a team struggle, you can easily identify those problems throughout a program.
Winning programs may have some of those issues but leadership and selflessness are able to root it out and overcome to maintain on a path toward winning and success.
Urban Meyer’s coaching philosophy goes viral
Meyer’s clip quickly went viral as it circulated on Twitter on Saturday afternoon with fellow coaches to current NFL players Michael Thomas and Travis Kelce among those who shared the words and echoed what the three-time national champion was preaching.
https://twitter.com/thecoachtube/status/1327655367690563596
"“Every time I’ve had a team struggle — every time — it’s fallen into one of three issues: No. 1, it’s some kind of trust issue. The players don’t trust the coach. The coach doesn’t trust the players. Or, it’s awful if the players don’t trust each other.No. 2, it’s a dysfunctional work environment where the expectation is very high, but we don’t work hard. The coach has to be really clear with his team that it will lead to anger, frustration and disappointment because we want to win a championship. But I’ve got bad news, guys: We’re not working hard … Your work ethic must exceed or meet your expectations. That’s a good environment.The last one is real obvious: You’ve got a selfish team, man. Football is an unselfish sport. You’ve got to do the nasty. If I’m a running back, I’ve got to go and protect my quarterback. You don’t always get to go carry the ball. Sometimes you have to go running down a kickoff 22 miles per hour and throw yourself into someone going 15 miles per hour the other way. That’s not fun, so why would you do that? You love your team and teammates.”So to LSU, Penn State, Michigan — stop with the ‘bad players.’ I get sick of hearing that. It’s not players. I don’t think it’s coaches. But there is something wrong. Lift the hood, and one of those three things is usually the reason.”"
It’s stuff like that which allowed him to win two national titles at Florida and another at Ohio State and why he’s still the most-coveted head coach on the market despite retiring two seasons ago.
If Meyer ever comes out of retirement, you can expect that program to quickly rise to the ranks of perennial national title contenders because of what he said on Saturday morning.
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