COLUMBUS, Ohio — Although college football has entered the quietest portion of its offseason, Urban Meyer’s name has made a habit of staying in the headlines recently.
And not necessarily for the best of reasons.
While satellite camp announcements have seemed to be the only consistent mainstay in the college football news cycle this spring, the Ohio State Buckeyes head coach has come under attack publicly not once, but twice from prospects whom the Buckeyes once had interest in but ultimately didn’t land.
The result has been a pair of mini-controversies during a particularly slow period on the sport’s calendar, which when combined with one another, have made Meyer’s notoriously aggressive recruiting approach a hot topic of conversation.
Yet despite the negative press, Ohio State has never been hotter on the recruiting trail.
You don’t have to take my word for it. Just look at the recruiting rankings, where the Buckeyes currently lay claim to the nation’s top-ranked 2017 class.
You wouldn’t necessarily know it based on a pair of recent interviews on SECCountry.com, the first of which ran in early April. In a Q&A with David Collier, 2016 Kentucky signee and 4-star offensive tackle Landon Young recalled his recruitment, where he claimed to be “treated like crap” by Ohio State’s three-time national championship head coach.
In particular, the Lexington, Kentucky, native took issue with Meyer’s response to an inquiry about why the Buckeyes waited so long to…
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