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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 937016" data-attributes="member: 7261">Urban was a successful college coach because he was in full control of the program.  He was also really good at recruiting top talent and smoozing with parents.  However, there was also a ton of collateral damage during his tenures at both Florida and OSU.  In 2010, when he left Florida for what he said were health reasons, he walked away from a program cratered with entitlement run amok, roster manipulation, a drug problem in the locker room and more than 30 player arrests in six seasons.Dealing with millionaire elite athletes in the NFL is a whole different animal and unlike many other successful college coaches that failed in the NFL, Urban appears to be struggling at it as well.  The great Football tradition at OSU paved the way for Urban to consistently have the leg up on top recruits, once he landed them, he did a pretty good job of coaching them on the field.  He stepped into a Jacksonville disaster with the team he inherited, even with Trevor Lawrence at QB, he is going to have a hard time turning that "program" around.</blockquote>

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