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He said last week it isn't something he has interest in.

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that means nothing fwiw

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What does this even mean?

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Not long after hiring Marvin Lewis, the architect of the Baltimore Ravens' dominating 2000 Super Bowl defense, and making him the highest-paid defensive coordinator in the NFL ($850,000 ayear, with incentives that could push the total past $1 million),Spurrier asked Lewis which fields the offense would use during practice and which the defense would use. "At Florida you probably had a second team, a third team and a fourth team,"Lewis recalls telling Spurrier. "Here we don't even have a second team. We have 53 players. That's it. We practice together--on the same field."

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Like there's no stress being the coach at Ohio State. Expectations are as high there as at any university in the country.

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“After the SEC Championship game, he thought he was having a heart attack,” said Rabinowitz, describing the aftermath of Florida’s only loss that season, a 32-13 Alabama victory.

“His wife, as a nurse, realized after about 30 seconds, it was not that. It was something in his esophagus and he took medicine and he was fine. But, clearly, the pressure and the stress caused…it wasn’t a nervous breakdown per say, but it was probably closer than he would have liked.”

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“He would lose a game or two, and then he just kind of lost it,” Rabinowitz said. “He would spend all night trying to devise punt return plays or whatever, instead of getting sleep. He lost a ton of weight and he didn’t know how to cope.”

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Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Ohio State coach Urban Meyer told HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" he was depressed while coaching at Florida in 2009, lost 37 pounds and was "mentally broke."

Meyer was suffering from chest pains and self-medicating for his stress.

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"And then you start thinking, 'There's something wrong with me mentally, you know? What is going on here?' "

Meyer said he was depressed. "I thought I was dying," Meyer said. "Mentally, I was broke."

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“If a case study was ever done on those years, it wasn’t pretty,” Meyer said. “The toll on my body, the toll on my mind. I would just get sick, I mean like physically ill. What could I have done better? It was my fault we lost this game. I didn’t cover that in practice.”

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Meyer, who ultimately had to quit Florida after the stress became too much, said the entire ordeal left him “mentally broke.”

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