He was better than they thought he was and better than he got credit for, frankly. That didn’t prevent Ron Meyer from being fired by the Patriots during one of their zany periods and later by the Indianapolis Colts, but that’s a coach’s fate, and if there’s one thing Ron Meyer always believed he was, it was a coach.
Say what you want about Meyer, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 76, but don’t leave this out: The man won everywhere he went. In the end, wasn’t that what his job was?
Meyer won at then Division 2 University of Nevada-Las Vegas, inheriting a team that was 1-10 the year before he arrived and going 8-3, 12-1 and 7-4 with the Running Rebels before running off to SMU.