Retiring Urban Meyer gets the best of Washington counterpart Chris Petersen as Huskies' rally falls short in Rose Bowl
LOS ANGELES — In 2011, during Urban Meyer’s year away from coaching, he spent much of his free time in pursuit of learning and any edge he could put to use when the right job came along. That job, of course, was Ohio State. But, before he would return to his native Ohio as the Buckeyes’ head coach, he took a trip up to Boise, Idaho, to observe Chris Petersen’s Boise State program up close.
What Petersen had accomplished at Boise was nothing short of remarkable, and it needed deeper understanding. Meyer remembered well the Broncos’ signature win over Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, mainly because he would never forget his wife, Shelley, pointing out to Meyer that
