College football’s Urban Meyer joins board of Florida college transformed by DeSantis

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — College football Hall of Famer Urban Meyer has been appointed to the board of trustees at a small public liberal arts college that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has transformed from a progressive institute into a staging ground for the Republican governor’s war on “woke.”

DeSantis this week named Meyer to the board at New College in Sarasota, which the governor’s allies took over two years ago by packing the board with DeSantis supporters and conservative figures.