WASHINGTON, D.C. — Urban Meyer isn't typically someone who misses out on a golden opportunity, especially when it is regarding his football team.
Monday, though, when he and the rest of the 2014 College Football Playoff National Champion Ohio State Buckeyes got to spend the day at the White House with President Barack Obama, Meyer was unsuccessful at asking the leader of the free world the question the country is dying to know.
Who would he start at quarterback this fall?
"No I didn’t," Meyer told the media outside the White House. "I’m going meet with him here again and ask him some questions. That was my fault, I forgot to ask."
Whether or not he actually got to meet with him again and ask for Obama's take on the three-headed monster the head coach has at his fingertips is unknown, but Meyer offered a slight smile when he replied to the question regarding the affair he has in front of him heading into the summer.
Obama didn't fail to mention the quarterbacks in his roughly 10-minute speech in the White House East Room Monday, highlighting the barriers the Buckeyes had to hurdle on their way to the title.
"I’m going meet with him here again and ask him some questions. That was my fault, I forgot to ask."– Urban Meyer
"At first they lost Braxton Miller, a Heisman contender, before the season even started," Obama said. "Then J.T. Barrett, Big Ten quarterback of the year steps in, has an extraordinary run but then breaks his ankle against a certain team up north."
The President then went on to say he told Cardale Jones he could throw the ball 75 yards, just like the guy who "is not your average third-string quarterback."
"He didn't believe me," Obama said, "so clearly he's a smart kid."
Meyer even offered a bit of a personal conversation between himself and the President.
"Then he said he had a hard time hitting a golf ball," Meyer said while smiling from ear to ear. "I don’t believe that."
Obama's known to have a considerable amount of knowledge regarding the sports world, a component of his life he put on display Monday when he talked about the Buckeyes.
But Meyer supposedly missed out on chance to ask him for his opinion on what is sure to be one of the most talked about stories of the summer.
"Who knows, he may be our fourth string," Evan Spencer joked.
The President did, however, offer gratitude to the way Miller, Barrett and Jones selflessly backed each other throughout the season.
"Everybody's going to go through ups and downs in life. How folks handle it, how quarterbacks on this team supported each other, that's what every organization wants to see," Obama said. "People stepping up for each other. Not only did they do it on the field, they made Ohio proud off the field."
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