COLUMBUS, Ohio — Somewhere in those 20 seconds may lie the answer and the explanation of why this will be different, of maybe why the question doesn’t even need to be asked. How will Urban Meyer handle winning this time? How will he live with a national championship? “Something happened last September,” Meyer began a story to a gathering of Ohio high school football coaches the day before Ohio State’s spring game last month, “and I sprinted out of practice one day and I went down and I got to see my son run on the field as a high school football player in the state of Ohio. “How cool is that?” Meyer paused. He cleared his throat. He apologized. He tried to start again and stopped. And after 20 seconds, the applause started. High school football coaches clapped for a proud father. Why is Urban Meyer’s third national title different? If number two at Florida in 2008 was the beginning of the end of his tenure with the Gators, the start of a mounting pressure that eventually led him to leave, why will number three keep him in Columbus and keep him happy? It may be where he is. And it may be what he’s become since he last won it all. Boston College coach Steve Addazio has been one of Meyer’s closest friends since they met as assistant coaches nearly two decades ago – Addazio at Syracuse, Meyer at Notre Dame – while recruiting at Central Bucks West in Pennsylvania, where Mike Pettine Sr. was the head coach. Meyer then hired Addazio at Florida, and he was in it for all six years, through the the highs of two titles and the lows of two retirements, the second of which stuck for Meyer after the 2010 season. “I went through all that with him. I was there,” Addazio said. …
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