One of the most resounding coaching careers in American college football reached the end of another decorated chapter on Tuesday, when Urban Meyer announced his retirement at age 54 after a seven-season, 82-9 run at Ohio State, the fourth university to hire him and then win frequently. Discussing his decision at a news conference in Columbus, Ohio, the native of Ashtabula, Ohio, on Lake Erie, said, “It’s not healthy, but I came to work every day with the fear of letting people like Archie Griffin and Buckeye Nation down,” a reference to the 1974-75 Heisman Trophy winner who still graces the place. Such drive was worrisome when combined with the headaches Meyer has suffered intermittently for two decades, caused by an arachnoid cyst in his brain. “The style of coaching that I’ve done for 33 years is a very intense, very demanding,” he said, before veering to another sentence. “I…
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