During a conversation about coaching fate in the summer of '82, Boston Globe sportswriter Will McDonough told Ron Meyer that he'd end up like all the Patriots coaches before him. The difference, he said, was that, unlike his predecessors, Meyer could "simply walk across the street and get a job at Rodman Ford selling cars."
The quality served him well at SMU, where he recruited some of the greatest talent in school history. Also some of the most notorious. In 1987, five years after Meyer left the Hilltop, the NCAA dropped the hammer.
But whatever Meyer did at SMU or any other place he coached, you couldn't say it wasn't entertaining.