Analyst: Auburn football hiring Urban Meyer would be ‘fun’

Auburn football hiring Urban Meyer — yes, the disgraced former Jacksonville Jaguars head coach who went 2-11 under him in his lone season in charge of an NFL team — would be a ‘fun’ hire according to Mike Farrell.

To be fair to Mr. Farrell, to most football fans, that is a 100% factual statement. For those on the Plains and around the world who back the orange and blue, ‘fun’ is not the word that first springs to mind.

While Meyer was an accomplished coach at the collegiate level who has three national championships to his name from his days with Florida (2x) and Ohio State and whose worst season as a head coach was eight wins, he is not the kind of personality that Auburn football needs right now. And his last coaching stint at the professional level has little to do with why.

Instead, it’s his various scandals that came to light last year that make him someone colleges should avoid indefinitely. Not only did married grandfather Meyer get caught dancing on a young woman in an Ohio bar in viral video that took the sports world by storm, which is shameful but coaches have kept jobs for worse, but he physically abused former Jaguars kicker Josh Lambo (who he released) after tearing him down verbally. That behavior makes him a frightening option around teenagers and men in their early 20s.

Here were the other fun hires Farrell suggested:

Auburn football considered a better fit for Deion Sanders than Georgia Tech

Why does Georgia Tech get to have so much fun with the addition of former Braves and Falcons star Deion Sanders? While yes, it’s been far longer since the Yellow Jackets fanbase has enjoyed themselves over the course of a full season — their Week 5 upset of Pitt was certainly more fun than a blown 17-point lead from Auburn football against LSU — Georgia Tech has not been derided nationally in the same light by any stretch as AU.

‘Prime Time’ has been called a better fit on the Plains than the ATL, and the money and resources would be far more plentiful for Sanders in East Central Alabama. Let’s hope that flight the day after the Penn State game indicates interest in Auburn from the most exciting head coaching candidate in the country.