Urban Meyer and Ryan Day took over at Ohio State in strangely similar situations.
Both hires were announced at the tail end of the football season — Meyer in 2011 and Day in 2018 — and they both had to scramble to finalize a recruiting class that has spent the previous 12 months with a lingering cloud of uncertainty hanging overhead.
Meyer closed hard and fast, then turned his attention to his first full recruiting class for the Buckeyes. His staff worked tirelessly over the course of the following year, and the result was one of the most talented and productive recruiting hauls in Ohio State history.