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Urban Meyer and the complicated question of a coach's legacy

Legacy is a complicated proposition.

It's a word and an idea that Urban Meyer has no doubt wrestled with in recent weeks and won't stop wrestling with in the weeks to come.

We all work as hard as we can, and walk every line we feel as though we must, with the hopes of departing this mortal coil with our reputation intact. For most of us, legacy means little more than leaving behind a good family made up of decent people with a name that we can engrave on a tombstone without too much embarrassment.

But for those among us who spend their lifetime standing on much larger stages in much brighter spotlights making much larger sums of money -- say, the sidelines of The Swamp and The Horseshoe while pulling down upward of $7.