PORT CLINTON — With a warm breeze blowing off the lake, Urban Meyer rolled into the Catawba Island Club here Monday and wondered how he ever left northwest Ohio.
OK, not quite.
But with due respect to Ohio State, he did let slip he could have stayed at Bowling Green happily ever after.
Such is the pull of the school, as his predecessor warned him when he took his first head coaching job there in 2001. Better than anyone, Gary Blackney knew Bowling Green’s charm and perils, having won all but two Mid-American Conference games in his first four years — the kind of success that prompted any number of bigger job offers.