Last week, we kicked off a series reviewing books “written” by college football head coaches with Lou Holtz’s Wins, Losses and Lessons. Somehow, that wasn’t bad enough, so this week, we’re going even deeper.
Above The Line: Lessons In Leadership and Life From A Championship Season is something that former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer had the audacity to title a book, and for you, because I care - I read* that book.
*spent 25 minutes leafing through while eating lunch in my car
After doing so, I’ve come to two possible conclusions about this book:
The first possible conclusion: Urban Meyer is a huckster who lent his name to a hastily ghostwritten seed-bell of Successories-level pablum meant to nourish the emotional needs of people who put motivational quotes like “the harder I work, the luckier I get - Abe Lincoln” in their work email signatures, and he did so as a quick cash-in immediately after Ohio State won the 2015 College Football Playoff National Championship.