With several decades of college coaching under his belt, three-time national champion Urban Meyer has been to stadiums all across the country. But there are two that he doesn’t seem to keen on ever returning to.
On the latest episode of The Triple Option, Meyer reflected on the toughest and most intimidating environments he’s ever had to play in.
The two schools that he named were LSU’s Tiger Stadium while he was head coach at Florida, and Penn State’s Beaver Stadium from his Ohio State days. But he had a very interesting story about his worst memories from Tiger Stadium.
Meyer recalled in 2007 for a trip to Tiger Stadium that there was an old lady in a walker who flipped him the double-bird. Later on, a man got close enough to him to dump a cup of pee onto him.
“Awful is a term I like to say,” Urban Meyer said. “It was awful and the worst one ever is 2007, we were defending national champs and we come rolling into LSU, which by the way is the most ridiculous atmosphere — I have them and Penn State — just absolutely ridiculous. I remember the old lady, she’s in a walker, she’s walking, and as our buses come by she stops and takes her hands off the walker and just [two middle fingers]. The double bird, staring right at me. I was like, ‘What in the Hell?’”
“Then, as we entered the stadium in 2007, I mean, it’s maybe a 10-foot wide walkway as you walk in the damn stadium. Nasty. Saying things, mean looking. This one guy just yelling, staring right at me, and he’s right off to my left. I have two police officers with me as I’m walking in there and our players, we kind of warned them to stay away from that nonsense,” Meyer said.
“One guy is holding a cup and as I get closer to him, we make eye contact and he’s just screaming at me and I wanted to take a swing at the guy but right then he takes [the cup] and he dumps it on me. I thought it was a beer and I dropped my bags and I go after him. One cop grabs me and one cop kind of goes after him but it’s a chain link fence and he just disappears right behind it. The players saw it. We go in and I lost my mind. Then I’m like, ‘Wait a minute. I thought that was beer.’ It didn’t smell like beer. So, I had to jump and take a quick shower and figure it out.”
Gross.
Meyer went just 3-3 against the Tigers during his six seasons with the Gators and just 1-2 at Tiger Stadium.
Little wonder that he has so few fond memories of that place – hostile old ladies and pee cup throwers aside.
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