Urban Meyer has apologized to his team several times for being caught up in a controversy involving him at a bar with another woman. A viral video emerged during the week showing the Jacksonville Jaguars head coach sitting on a stool as a woman danced on him following his winless team’s defeat to the Cincinnati Bengals in their last start.
Another angle also showed him feeling the woman up with his hands.
Meyer, who is married, also posed in photos with other women during the night. The person that this hurts the most is his wife, Shelley Mather Meyer.
Asked on Thursday about the impact of the scandal on his relationship with his wife, and Meyer thinks it will be a minor issue.
“I don’t want to get into our personal life,” Meyer said. “Thirty-seven years we’ve been together and it’s been awesome, and this speed bump is not going to get in the way of that.”
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In a series of tweets, NFL Network’s Michael Silver detailed the relationship between Meyer and his players was on shaky ground as a result of the incident, which took place after the coach didn’t return home on the same flight as the team. He was laughed at after telling players of the situation on Monday, which prompted him to do it the right way during a full team meeting.
“The Urban Meyer situation in Jacksonville has reached a crisis point, especially in the locker room,” Silver wrote. “One player told me, ‘He has zero credibility in that stadium. He had very little to begin with’.
“Players were particularly put off by the fact that Meyer cancelled Monday’s team meeting, as he dealt with the uproar over the videos of him and a young woman getting cozy in that Ohio bar. ‘He even cancelled the team meeting. He was too scared’, a player said.
“Instead Meyer ‘only apologised to position groups individually’. He portrayed the woman in the videos as a random person who was ‘just there dancing’. Suffice it to say, his audience was highly sceptical.
“Said one player: ‘We looked at him like, WTF? Right when he left everyone started dying laughing. And he knew it’.
“Bottom line, said the player: ‘It’s bad. I don’t know how he’s gonna function’.”
His daughter has also spoke out on Instagram, insisting that her family is “moving on, and life is good.”
Meyer joined the Jaguars this year after a successful and controversial career in college football, which saw him win three national championships in 2006, 2008 and 2014. Things have not gone according to plan for him.
