Urban Meyer tells the same story now that he did nearly 10 years ago. It’s the one where Meyer, so overcome by the uncertainty of Vonn Bell’s recruitment on national signing day in 2013, went to blow off some of that nervous energy on a treadmill in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. A few moments later, his phone was buzzing with a call from Bell, who said he would be announcing his decision to attend Ohio State, not Tennessee or Alabama, later that morning on ESPN. Meyer, it turns out, was on the short list of people who knew what Bell was going to do. In fact, the list might have ended at Bell and Meyer. Everett Withers, Ohio State’s defensive coordinator and safeties coach who had invested more time and energy into Bell’s recruitment than any other before or since, was confident but not certain. Mark Mariakis, Bell’s head…
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