Urban Meyer shares story about Pete Rose trying to get gambling intel out of him about Ohio State

As Meyer explained, shortly after he was hired to be the head football coach at Ohio State ahead of the 2012 season, he met Rose at a Reds contest. The two also exchanged numbers, and the MLB legend wasn't exactly shy in reaching out.

"I was a huge Pete Rose fan, still am, we lost him several months ago, but he became a friend of mine. When I got hired at Ohio State, (the Reds) asked me to come down and throw out the first pitch … when I walked in the clubhouse, there was Pete Rose," Meyer explained.

"During the season, my first year in 2012, every once in a while I'd get a text … 'Hey man, how's the team look? How's Illinois look? How's Braxton Miller's shoulder?' or something like that. And I'd text him back, 'Yeah, we're doing fine.'

Meyer didn't think anything of it, that is, until a person he explained the situation to painted a clear picture of what appeared to be going on.

"I told that to someone, they said, 'You're an idiot. You know he's trying to get information from you for gambling (purposes), and you could get in trouble,'" Meyer continued.

"I never gave much, but from that point forward, (if Rose texted) 'How's Braxton's shoulder?' I'd say, 'How are the Reds doing?' and just kind of moved on."

After also being made permanently ineligible to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991, Rose was posthumously reinstated and became eligible for the Hall just months after his death.