Urban Meyer grateful to be back on BGSU's campus

Panelists laugh with former head coach of BGSU and Ohio State Urban Meyer, left, as he tells a story during BOWLING GREEN — The stories from Urban Meyer about his experiences at Bowling Green State University were aplenty on Thursday afternoon.

But the optimism about the future of the university, especially the Falcons’ football program under coach Eddie George, was abundant, as well.

“The campus looks so healthy right now,” said Meyer, a former BGSU coach and a member of the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame class. “We’ve all been to places where it’s not, and I’m not saying it wasn’t that way when I was here, but it wasn’t that way when I was here.

“The one thing is, across my journeys, is…