“Special teams would be my picture of what’s fitting for him.”Įven while playing baseball at UC, Nate Meyer made it clear to his coaches that he wanted to get into college football coaching. “It’ll be interesting to see athletically if he can hang with some of those guys,” Fickell said in a phone interview. Meyer’s role, as with all walk-ons, projects to be a modest one. Watterson graduates Nate Meyer and Craig Fada would tease Fickell, who went to Columbus-area rival St. Nate Meyer and Fickell’s friendly banter typically revolves around the rivalry between their high schools. In late March, he called Fickell, who he’s known since he was 12. “Am I in over my head?” Nate Meyer asked him. Nate Meyer began exploring the possibility by speaking with Cincinnati strength coach Brady Collins, who he got to know when Collins worked for Mickey Marotti at Ohio State. He was supportive and completely understood, he knew my passion for football and what I wanted to do in my career.” “He was one of my favorite coaches I’ve had in my life. “I got pretty emotional after I hung up the phone with him,” Nate Meyer said.
Nate Meyer developed a close relationship with UC baseball coach Scott Googins, which made breaking the news to him difficult.
He chose baseball in college and was a role player on Cincinnati’s NCAA tournament team, the program’s first NCAA appearance since 1974. He made all-district in football at Bishop Watterson High School in Dublin, Ohio. Then-Ohio State coach Urban Meyer with wife Shelley Meyer, son Nathan Meyer and daughter Gisela Meyer celebrate after the team won the Rose Bowl on Jan. I changed my major to psychology like you were and I want to be a football coach,” Urban Meyer said with a laugh by phone on Wednesday. Nate Meyer called his father a few days later. Urban Meyer recalled Nate Meyer being back in Columbus on fall break from Cincinnati in 2018, after he’d spent a few days with the Buckeyes as they prepared to play Nebraska. That’s the same major Urban Meyer had as a student at Cincinnati, where he played football after a failed minor league baseball stint and eventually got into football coaching. Urban Meyer said that his son changed his major at Cincinnati from business to psychology after the fall of his freshman year. After that, I had a fall season that didn’t have football. “I fell in love with the whole environment and the people there,” Nate Meyer said. That experience ultimately planted the seed for him to become a football coach. Nate Meyer said he has a sense of the competition level from spending the summer before his freshman year working out with Ohio State’s football team.
He joins one of the hottest programs in college football, as Fickell has led Cincinnati to a 22-5 record the past two seasons and a likely top-20 preseason ranking. Nate Meyer is looking forward to the experience to help him on his coaching path.
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