Urban Meyer Penn State: Ohio State over Nittany Lions Is No-Brainer Decision

If Urban Meyer is going to come back to college football, he will have to pick his poison.

However, the choice is actually very simple.

Penn State and Ohio State are two of the most storied programs in the history of the game. For a coach to have to decide between the two of them is unprecedented.

But Urban Meyer is no ordinary coach.

Heck, he's not extraordinary either. Urban Meyer is a program-changing coach with the potential and talent not only to fix these disgraced programs, but to bring them back to greatness in a short span of time.

Only one is going to be able to hire him if he decides to come back at all, though.

And that is no shoo-in, either. Meyer stepped down from Florida reportedly for health issues and a desire to spend more time with his family. He's since become a college football analyst for ESPN and is naturally good at what he does.

Taking on either of these programs will not be great for his health, but coaches are coaches because they love the game.

If Meyer comes back to the sideline for one of these two schools, it will ultimately be Ohio State.

He earned his bachelor's degree while playing at Cincinnati, but earned his master's degree in Columbus and served as a graduate assistant on staff.

Personal ties aside, the situation at Ohio State is much more straight forward than the one at Penn State.

The biggest problem Meyer will have in Columbus is putting things back together with the recruiting class and finding himself a quarterback.

At State College, he'll have to deal with a lot more than that.

The cloud of the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal will hang over that campus for a long, long time. What the ramifications will be are still unknown, because there continues to be new information flowing week by week.

The work that will need to be done in Happy Valley is on a different level.

Meyer is 47 years old and already citing health issues. The amount of stress that will bear down on the next head coach at Penn State isn't even worthy of estimation at this point.

If Urban Meyer is going to coach football again, he is going to do it in a place where his main concern is going to be football.

That cannot be said of the current climate at Penn State.