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Urban Meyer must have had some Christmas Carol or It’s a Wonderful Life dreams when he went to bed last night after resigning from coaching football at the University of Florida.
Less than 24 hours after his resignation, Meyer has decided to remain the Gators’ coach, and take Florida athletics director Jeremy Foley up on his original offer to take an extended break to resolve health issues, which have included stress-related chest pains throughout UF’s high-pressured undefeated regular season that ended with a loss to Alabama in the Southeastern Conference championship game.
Ever since Meyer’s announcement to resign around 7 p.m. Saturday, radio, television and newspapers have run stories reflecting on Meyer’s successful coaching career as if he had died.
The ultra competitive Meyer must not have been ready for his career to be buried so he changed his mind.
His turnaround brings to mind, in my eyes, the classic movie It’s a Wonderful Life and The Christmas Carol play.
In It’s a Wonderful Life, George wished he had never been born, but he decides life is worth living after getting to see how miserable everyone was without him. In Christmas Carol, a grumpy, stingy Scrooge is visited by three ghosts, but the last scares him out of his whits by showing him his imminent grave. So Scrooge wakes up and has a change of heart.
Coach Meyer leans more towards George because he is a very likeable guy. But unlike George and Scrooge, Gators fans are celebrating with Meyer because they also went for a ride on his emotional rollercoaster.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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