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After A Sleepless Night, Meyer Ready For Challenge

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Dec. 13, 2002

By Linda Hamilton
Deseret News

SALT LAKE CITY - At 2 a.m. Wednesday, Urban Meyer made up his mind. "He said, 'I can't do it,'" said his wife, Shelley. He had decided he wouldn't ask his family to move out of the community that in less than two years had so embraced them.

"We felt so close," said Shelley Meyer, to Bowling Green's people.

She thought for a bit in those early morning hours, and then she said to him, "Why? Why can't we?

"We just had to separate that from what was best professionally and for our family," said Shelley.

By 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, they had chosen to come back to the West, to Utah, to take on the task of giving Ute athletic director Chris Hill what he seeks - outright conference football championships, occasional top-20 rankings and crowds that don't look lost in 47,000-seat Rice-Eccles Stadium.

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