Urban Meyer visits practice

Florida coach Urban Meyer did show up at UC’s practice today and talked to the players on the field after practice.

As a UC grad, he talked about how proud he was of how the program has progressed in recent years and tried to impress on them how much work it takes to reach a championship level.

When he finished talking with the team, he stopped briefly to talk with reporters and recalled his days here as a walk-on reserve safety and special teams player back in 1984.

“It was not a good football place when I was here,” he said. “I was not a good player. It was not a good program. It was not a good place…the way it is now, that was an excellent football practice, a bunch of good players. That team is going to challenge for a championship. That was really good.

“I played professional baseball for two years and then I walked on here. I wasn’t very good…It wasn’t major college football. It was a masquerade. It was not what it is today. The facilities are phenomenal. That practice was a legitimate practice with a bundh of good football players. I’m leaving here going, ‘That was legit.’

Meyer was here to visit family. His sister is a vice-provost at UC. His father underwent gall bladder surgery on Tuesday, which is why he didn’t attend practice then , as expected.