Urban Meyer needed to watch film.
That isn't unusual for the Ohio State coach in late December, particularly when he’s just a couple days shy of packing up his team and heading out to compete for a national championship.
But these sessions in the gap between his team’s last practice and the end of the holiday break are decidedly different for Meyer these days.
He has traded the office for his daughter’s house nearby, where she started living in November, just a couple minutes' walk down the road from Meyer's home. He isn't surrounded by coaches, and he doesn’t need to hold a laser pointer, having replaced the former with his kids and the latter with a new grandchild.