Jim Delany was chatting about Urban Meyer’s legacy on Wednesday, a day after the Ohio State football coach announced his retirement. And it was with a bit of irony, perhaps, that the Big Ten commissioner was using a phrase he learned in law school at the University of North Carolina way back in the early 1970s.
“I mean, he’s among the greatest football coaches in the history of the game,” Delany said at the Learfield Intercollegiate Athletics Forum in New York. “They teach you in law school: Res ipsa loquitur. ‘The thing speaks for itself.