Grantland: Nick Saban, Urban Meyer and the battle of college football recruiting kingpins
By Michael Weinreb
Published December 30, 2014, 12:50:09 PM
There is a well-circulated and almost certainly apocryphal tale about Urban Meyer and the Lord himself, and the story goes something like this: In the midst of the serious health scare that eventually caused him to quit his job as head coach at the University of Florida, Meyer calls up a recruit named Sharrif Floyd. Says he had a dream the night before, and that in the dream he was coaching Floyd, and that this dream was a message from above. Says to Floyd, “If it’s my time to die, I’d rather die on the sidelines coaching you than anywhere else in the world.
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