Urban Meyer selling Columbus-based business
The hits keep coming for Urban Meyer. According to Ben Koo of Awful Announcing, the former Ohio State coach is selling his Columbus-based steakhouse, Urban Chophouse.
“Regarding Urban’s Meyer’s Chophouse, it’s being sold to Shawn Shahnazi,” tweeted Koo. “Signage and menu will change in a few weeks. GM and Executive Chef out. The lounge will become a members only club. Meyer brand and fine dining didn’t mesh, wallpaper of him in Jax especially lol.”
Originally, the restaurant opened last May. Now, the venue will distance itself from Meyer, as the aforementioned local restaurant owner Shawn Shahnazi takes over. Additionally, Koo mentions that a new chef will be hired, and the menu will change.
While Meyer won’t have the Chophouse any longer, the former Buckeyes coach has his name on another restaurant in Ohio — Urban Meyer’s Pint House. However, that eatery harbors tough memories, as it was the site of the controversial video featuring Meyer dancing with a woman who wasn’t his wife. The instance kickstarted his demise as the coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Urban’s Chophouse wasn’t around long, barely lasting longer than Meyer’s tenure with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Under new ownership, the Columbus-based restaurant will look to build a brand without the former coach.
Urban Meyer on kicking incident with Jaguars: ‘That’s not true’
Furthermore, Urban Meyer’s tenure with Jacksonville will be remembered for all of the wrong reasons. One of the final straws for Meyer before being fired by the Jaguars was former Jacksonville kicker Josh Lambo alleging that Meyer kicked him during the preseason.
Meyer has rebuked the incident in the past, but it is still being talked about today. Earlier this year, Meyer joined Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich, where he denied Lambo’s accusations with some very interesting comments.
“When you come out and say that there was a player kicked, that’s not true,” Meyer said. “That’s not true at all. Of course there was accountability and there were hard conversations and all of that. But I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ But I do take ownership in the fact of how you go about pushing is 2022 or 2021.”
Meyer added that he might have tapped Lambo with his foot, but he maintains that it was not in a true kicking fashion.
“First of all, own it. I certainly did not,” Meyer said when asked if he kicked Lambo, as reported. “To say I didn’t tap him with my foot, but to kick someone? Come on. I’ve done this 37 years. Kick a player? The other players came up to me and said they saw the whole thing. ‘Cause I mostly had forgotten about it.”
When the report of the incident first came out, Lambo had a pretty detailed description of the alleged kick from Meyer.
“I’m in a lunge position. Left leg forward, right leg back,” Lambo said. “Urban Meyer, while I’m in that stretch position, comes up to me and says, ‘Hey Dips–t, make your f–ing kicks!’ And kicks me in the leg.”
In part of Lambo’s report, he also said that he had issues with the way that Meyer coached him.