Notre Dame Football: Here we go again with the Urban Meyer talk

For Notre Dame football fans, the talk of Urban Meyer in South Bend doesn’t seem to want to go away completely, but it really should.

Notre Dame football fans used to want Urban Meyer as the head coach of the Fighting Irish. Now, I would expect most of them really don’t want to hear much about Meyer ever again.

Even though Urban Meyer has said that he is done coaching for good, there is still a contingent of people who believe that Meyer either is either flat-out lying or that he won’t be able to resist scratching when the itch to coach comes back in the next few years.

Now, I’ve touched on this exact subject before, but it’s safe to revisit it again. And given that this topic seems to want to re-surface in any slow news cycle, it seems worth addressing this again, perhaps more firmly this time: You should put to bed any thought of Urban Meyer donning the blue and gold (and green) of Notre Dame.

I’m not at all saying that it won’t happen, but unless Brian Kelly resigns tomorrow, it probably shouldn’t happen.

Without even talking about specifics, let’s just address what should be obvious: The last two stops on Urban Meyer’s coaching road map have ended abruptly and surrounded by scandal and speculation. That, in and of itself, is reason enough to not want to have Meyer as the coach at the University of Notre Dame.

A program that has the current momentum that Notre Dame has, coupling on-field success with success on the recruiting trail, doesn’t need someone like Meyer.

If, for some unforeseen reason, Brian Kelly leaves abruptly in the near future, it would be important for the Irish to continue to trust the process of what got them to where they are in the first place.

That doesn’t mean going all-in on a coach who might help in the immediate short-term, but runs the risk of leaving the program in shambles once he’s done.

Notre Dame isn’t that desperate, even if it turns out that their rivals are.