Michigan State football: 3 pros and 3 cons for Urban Meyer as head coach

I’ve held off long enough. While I put the odds of Michigan State football hiring Urban Meyer at around +18000, there is still a chance, and the longer we go without hearing the program or Meyer himself say, flat out, that he’s not coaching here, the smaller those odds become.

Uncle Urban is an extremely divisive figure. A large part of Spartan Nation doesn’t want the baggage that comes with him, which there is plenty. His coaching tenures end in controversy and becomes a PR nightmare for whatever school he’s leaving.

On the other hand, the vocal majority of Spartan nation want someone who will win, and Meyer wins. A lot. They know that college football has become a business and like all companies, there are shady people who get things done.

Here’s a brief look at the positives and negatives for hiring Urban Meyer.

Pro: The dude wins

Everywhere he has been head coach (in college), he has won. Like, he has never had a season with a losing record. He alone has more seasons with double-digit wins (12), than the Michigan State Spartans 126-year history (9). He took a 2-9 Bowling Green football team and went 8-3 the very next season. Two years removed from a losing record, they started the season 8-0, eventually going 9-3.

He then went to Utah, taking a team that went 5-7 the year before and won 10 games in his first year. Two years removed from a losing record, he went undefeated. See a trend?

Not to mention the two national titles at Florida, the first one coming in just his second season. At Ohio State, he had double-digit win totals every single year, with no more than one conference loss in a season, two of those conference losses coming against Michigan State and a perfect record against Michigan.