COLUMBUS, Ohio — It wasn’t exactly on the same level of Ohio State’s College Football Playoff semifinal victory over Alabama, but Urban Meyer managed to pick up another win over his former conference on Monday when he secured a verbal pledge from 3-star defensive tackle and former Kentucky commit DaVon Hamilton.
Given that Hamilton hails from nearby Pickerington, Ohio, his change of heart to his hometown school shouldn’t come as a surprise to the college football world. But it does continue what’s now a three-year trend Meyer has developed of flipping already committed prospects in the days leading up to national signing day.
Meyer’s most recent flip may have come by way of the SEC, but his relentless recruiting practices have been felt the most in the Big Ten, where rival teams now know that no prospect is off-limits for the Buckeyes head coach.
“His presence and how hard he attacks recruiting has put a lot of pressure on the rest of the league to re-evaluate how they get after it on the recruiting trail,” recruiting analyst Marc Givler of BuckeyeGrove.com and Rivals.com told Bleacher Report. “Teams now understand that recruiting doesn’t end with a verbal commitment. Nothing is binding until these kids sign their letters of intent.”
It wasn’t always that way in the Big Ten, at least not until Meyer took over the Buckeyes program in 2012. Leading up to his first national signing day in Columbus, Meyer flipped two committed prospects within his new…
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