Your new Florida Gator head coach…

Okay…I’ve got it all figured out. I know where everyone will be coaching next year. Everyone is predicting that Charlie Weis gets fired from Notre Dame at the end of the season. Once that happens, Urban Meyer is packing up his things and heading out of town. I’m really surprised his house isn’t already for sale.  Who wouldn’t want to live in South Bend during the winter? It’s such a bright, cheery place.  Notre Dame has their man. The heads of Gator fans across the nation start exploding.

A recent “hot seat” coach, Mark Richt interviews for the Florida job, but his inability to win in the state of Florida doesn’t sit well with Jeremy Foley and he’s quickly eliminated from contention. Richt will wait a year until Jimbo Fisher fails miserably and take over at Florida State.

The new Georgia position is taken by Steve Spurrier, who wants to focus on all the golf courses in the state of Georgia and would actually have a shot at recruiting and winning with a marketable program. Any Gator fan whose head didn’t explode when Meyer left, has just given up on college football altogether.

South Carolina can’t break away from the Holtz family and ends up hiring current East Carolina coach Skip Holtz. In a related story, Charlie Strong is seen taking a flight to Greenville, NC.

Pete Carroll of USC gets tired of hearing about the SEC and wants to prove he can win in the best conference. That’s right….Carroll is your new coach at Florida. Phil Fulmer is named head coach at USC three days later.

Oh…and Lane Kiffin still sucks at his job so Tennessee brings in Tommy Tuberville as the head coach and Kiffin is demoted to “Assistant to the Head Coach.”Aren’t you happy I’m here to sort it all out?

Urban Meyer 6 Year Contract Extension

While there are still some talking about Urban Meyer leaving for Notre Dame after this year, this news update says 100% otherwise!

University of Florida football coach Urban Meyer, who has led the Gators to two national championships in three years, was rewarded Monday with a six-year, $24 million contract extension that runs through 2014.

Coach Meyer has certainly proven to be one of the top college football coaches in the country and should be compensated as such,” UF athletics director Jeremy Foley said.

Meyer, who arrived in Gainesville in 2005, had signed a six-year extension in 2007 for $3.2 million per year. His new contract, which averages $4 million per year, makes him one of the highest-paid coaches in the country along with Southern California’s Pete Carroll ($4.4 million), Alabama’s Nick Saban ($3.9 million) and LSU’s Les Miles ($3.7 million).

I continue to be very thankful and appreciative for everything the University of Florida and the athletic program has done for me and my family,” Meyer said.

One of the most interesting aspects of Meyer’s new contract, according to UF associate athletic director Steve McClain, is language that indicates Meyer will donate $1 million per year to the University of Florida’s Florida Opportunity Scholars Program for the life of the contract. The program provides financial assistance to first-generation, financially disadvantaged students.

I believe that Urban Meyer is the best at what he does,” UF president Bernie Machen said. “He demands excellence of his players on the field and the classroom. Not only did the University of Florida win a national championship in January, but all 13 seniors earned degrees and the 2008 football team tied an SEC league record with 37 players named to the SEC academic honor roll.

The Gators won the BCS national championship in 2008 and return 17 starters from that team, including senior quarterback Tim Tebow and senior linebacker Brandon Spikes. UF likely will be ranked No. 1 to begin the season. Fall practice begins Thursday.

Story courtesy of Miami Herald.