GENEVA, Ohio — When Urban Meyer saw the ball trickle through the net, he felt his eyes began to water. His connection to Northeast Ohio means that much to him.
"When Kyrie (Irving) hit that shot, a 51-year-old man in Columbus began to tear up," Meyer said Wednesday at the fourth annual youth camp he and friend Dean Hood host at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva.
Meyer turns 52 next week, already with three national championships in his trophy case first at Florida and now as head football coach at Ohio State. He is among the elite coaches in all college sports, but took time out of a busy summer to reconnect with Hood and work with today's youth in the community that made him.