Opposing coaches could never feel comfortable if Urban Meyer wanted to make a late push for someone they wanted too.
Time and time again, he made them pay. One of the biggest reasons he became so highly thought of as a recruiter was his ability to close on top-end prospects.
It began early in his Ohio State tenure when he landed commitments from Noah Spence, Taylor Decker and Tommy Schutt as cornerstones of the 2012 class. It took Meyer less than a month to get Spence both to consider and ultimately end up as a Buckeye. Schutt flipped from Penn State in December 2011, and a month later he got Decker to flip from Notre Dame.