Bowling Green athletic director Derek van der Merwe has said Urban Meyer helped him decide on hiring Eddie George as the Falcons' next coach. George was the Tennessee State coach for four years ...

With players locked in to school for the semester, the former Heisman Trophy winner has 15 practices to win over players ...

Bowling Green’s hiring of Ohio State legend Eddie George as its new head coach started with a recommendation from former Ohio ...

George played nine seasons in the NFL, including eight with the Tennessee Titans. He was the 1996 AP NFL Offensive Rookie of ...

During his introduction as Falcons coach, George recalled receiving a call from Meyer as he drove through Bowling Green, Ky., ...

It was the first football coaching search of van der Merwe’s tenure, which started in October 2022. Bowling Green president Rodney K. Rogers, head coach Eddie George, and athletic director Derek ...

Bowling Green's AD believes everything happened just right when it came to the Falcons' Eddie George hire.

"Today, we add another transformative leader to this campus in Eddie George," Derek van der Merwe, Bowling Green's vice president for athletics strategy, said in a news release. "Our students are ...

He said, ‘I have one name for you. I want you to talk to Eddie George,'” van der Merwe said, via Dan Hope of Eleven Warriors. “I said, ‘the Heisman Trophy winner, right?’ He says yeah.