Bud Meyer said his and his wife’s simple parenting philosophy derived from his father’s.
Urban, though he thrived academically, was not allowed to skip a grade because it would put him at a disadvantage in sports.
He demanded the most from his children Gigi and Erika skipped grades. She recalled Sundays spent at a nearby yacht club and a comfortable childhood.īud Meyer made sure they were not too cozy. Though Ashtabula is a primarily blue-collar town, Escoe chuckled at portrayals of her brother as a blue-collar kid. She then looked at her father seated across the table and said, laughing, “That seems familiar.”īud and Gisela Meyer reared their three children - Gigi, Urban and Erika - primarily in the northeast Ohio town of Ashtabula, which lies on Lake Erie and, as he put it, “has gone the way of rust.” “Earle strikes me as no-nonsense, straightforward and a disciplinarian who expects a lot out of people,” she said during a recent interview in a restaurant near the University of Cincinnati, where she is a senior associate dean. Gigi Escoe, Meyer’s sister, got to know Bruce over the years. Bruce played for and coached under Woody Hayes, another disciplinarian who helped shape an attitude so salty in Bruce that he would paint the opponents’ locker room pink to psych them out. Earle Bruce won 154 games in his Hall of Fame career, with his most notable stint coming at Ohio State from 1979 to 1987, when he won or shared four Big Ten titles.
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