Urban Meyer GLENDALE, AZ – JANUARY 01: Head coach Urban Meyer of the Ohio State Buckeyes on the sidelines during the BattleFrog Fiesta Bowl against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at University of Phoenix Stadium on January 1, 2016 in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Most of the college football fan world will never know what happens in the real world of college football recruiting. However, every now and then the lid gets blown off the process and happened in an interview between 4-star Kentucky offensive line commit Landon Young and the website SEC Country.

In that interview, Young claims that Ohio State treated him like crap as he camped in Columbus and that Urban Meyer had some bad things to say about him as a player — despite later on offering the 4-star tackle once other offers came rolling in.

Young, a 6-7, 270-pound offensive lineman at the time, alleges that while at camp the program treated him like a “piece of meat.”

“I had gone up to camp there, and they had treated me like a piece of meat, just treated me like crap. By that time, I was a four-star tackle. I weighed about 270 [pounds], and I was 6-7.”

Things really got strange according to Young when he went back up after an eventual offer came his way from the Buckeyes.

I wasn’t even on their radar. I came back up after they offered me. Four straight days, I got (offers from) the University of Cincinnati, Alabama, Auburn and then Ohio State. I went up and said, ‘Coach (Meyer), what was the reason that you all of a sudden offered me?’ He said, ‘We looked at your tape, and it was pretty good and I saw interest in that.’ I said, ‘Well coach, back when I was just committing to Kentucky and keeping my options open, I came up to a camp and sent you my film and everything, and you didn’t even reply. It seemed like y’all just deleted it.’

He said, ‘Well, if you look back at that time, you were how big?’ I said, ‘6-7, 270, just like I am now.’ He said, ‘Well, you were an insubstantial tackle, an insubstantial player,’ so he was saying I (didn’t) even amount to being able to be recruited by Ohio State as a four-star tackle. He said, ‘Now what offers did you have?’ I said, ‘I had my one from Kentucky,’ and he said, ‘Well, you were an insubstantial player with insubstantial offers from an insubstantial school.’

Young, a Lexington, Kentucky native eventually stuck with a commitment to the hometown team despite a host of other offers and a close battle with his runner-up, Auburn. It was the atmosphere and personal relationships formed at Kentucky that got Young to stay home.

“They were a school that had a real, good moral base. [Offensive line] coach [John] Schlarman is a lover of the Lord, and so is coach [Mark] Stoops. That really hit it for me to just really connect on a personal level, be interested besides football what they’re doing in your life.”

However, this case goes to show you just how cutthroat the world of college football recruiting can be and how much offers and stars seem to matter to some schools versus others.

[SEC Country]

About Andrew Coppens

Andy is a contributor to The Comeback as well as Publisher of Big Ten site talking10. He also is a member of the FWAA and has been covering college sports since 2011. Andy is an avid soccer fan and runs the Celtic FC site The Celtic Bhoys. If he's not writing about sports, you can find him enjoying them in front of the TV with a good beer!