Patriots head coach Bill Belichick calls Ohio State’s football coach Urban Meyer a “great man” and a “great friend.”
“I go back a long way with Urban,” Belichick said Wednesday at Gillette Stadium. “I talk to him multiple times every season. I have great respect and appreciation for what he’s done, the national championships, and programs that he’s built.”
Belichick and Meyer, who says he is retiring after seven seasons — marred by his handling of domestic abuse allegations against a former assistant coach — at Ohio State, met in the winter of 2005, according to the New York Times.