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What Was Urban Meyer Like As A High School Assistant Coach? One Of His Former Players Weighs In

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CINCINNATI — Before the three national championships, the two undefeated seasons and the .851 career winning percentage, Urban Meyer was here, at St. Xavier High School on the north side of Ohio’s third-largest city.

Meyer was just 21 years old in the fall of 1985; his brief football career at the University of Cincinnati finished.