College Football Championship 2015 Urban Meyer and the Ohio State team celebrates following the Oregon Ducks loss to the Ohio State Buckeyes in the College Football Playoff National Championship, Jan 11, 2015, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Thomas Boyd/Staff (Thomas Boyd) Kids say the darndest things: College football edition. A week after Kentucky offensive line signee Landon Young told SECCountry.com that Ohio State and Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer “treated me like crap,” and a day after Meyer addressed those comments, the 6-foot-7, 270-pound offensive lineman has issued an apology on Twitter. “The quotes that were attributed to me in an article last week were mistaken and in no way reflect my feelings toward coach Urban Meyer and the Ohio State program,” Young said as part of his tweet. “I have a tremendous amount of respect for coach Meyer, his assistants and that program. Coach was honest and frank with me, and he, and his staff, treated me with a great amount of respect during my visit. My explanation of the camp treatment was that I thought it was actually somewhat funny and startling that Coach Meyer was so honest and frank with me.” On Tuesday, Meyer responded to the initial comments to BuckeyeGrove.com: “I did read that, we had a lot of respect for him as a player,” Meyer said. “I was very disappointed in our staff that we did not offer him earlier. Then about the treating him bad, we don’t do that on purpose. If that is his feelings, I went back and talked to our staff about it because we don’t want that to be out there. But when you have one out of 650 that say someone is treated bad…” pic.twitter.com/sTej4he8yJ — Landon Young (@Landon_Young_67) April 6, 2016 It remains unclear whether or not Young’s Twitter retraction is enough to undo the minor damage done to Ohio State’s recruiting reputation
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