Urban Meyer Steps Down

Today, Urban Meyer stepped down as the head football coach at the University of Florida.  Though this comes off as surprising news to most of the Gator Nation, it really should not be.  We all remember that last December he resigned due to health reasons, but changed his mind the next day and only took a leave of absence after the Sugar Bowl.  This time, he is resigning to spend more time with his family.  

Though I do believe that his main motivation for his resignation is to spend more time with his family, I suspect that the season that the Gators endured had something to do with this resignation.  After the health scare at the SEC Championship last year, resigning and then coming back, it was obvious that the stress that he put on himself by running the program had caused all of this.  He then decided that he had to change the way he ran the program.  He began to relegate more power towards the assistants involving the preparation of the team.  This didn't lead to the success that he envisioned and I speculate that he started to wonder if he could continue to run the program like this.  I believe that he decided that he couldn't continue to run it this way.  This decision was apart of his decision to resign today.

Urban Meyer's resignation as the head football coach at UF is really a sad day for the Gator Nation.  He was one of the most successful coaches in college football the past 6 years at UF.  He finishes his time at UF with a record of 64-15 and has lead us to 2 SEC Championships and 2 National Championships.  This success has led to UF being a national powerhouse and Urban is the main reason why.  As most of the Gator Nation is thinking, Urban, you will be missed and the Swamp won't be the same without you on the sideline.