Urban Meyer’s skepticism turned into Mark Stoops’ gain during the last recruiting cycle.

Four-star offensive tackle Landon Young, who is from Lexington, signed with the hometown Wildcats and became the prized recruit of the 2016 Kentucky recruiting class.

The U.S. Army All-American chose the Wildcats over Alabama, Auburn and a host of others, including Urban Meyer’s Ohio State Buckeyes.

The Buckeyes are where this recruitment story gets interesting.

Apparently, Meyer was late to the game in offering the 6-7, 270-pounder that graded out as the No. 79 overall player in the 2016 247Sports composite rankings.

And when SEC Country conducted a recent Q&A with Young, he let everyone know just how poor his experience with Ohio State was during the recruiting process.

Young recalled his initial camp visit at Ohio State, which he said did not conclude with an offer:

“I had gone up to camp there, and they had treated me like a piece of meat, just treated me like crap.”

But after he rose to four-star status and began to receive attention from some of the nation’s top programs, Young said Meyer and his staff reemerged as a group that was suddenly interested.

So Young returned to Ohio State, and this is what he recalled about a private meeting with Meyer during the SEC Country interview:

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.’

Young explained that Meyer tried to say the Buckeyes became interested when he developed into a larger frame, but Young refuted that by saying he was the same size as he was when he attended camp and sent a tape.

That’s when things allegedly turned a little ugly.

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.’

That sort of put me on a bad note because that’s the team I’m committed to. He called me a bad player at that. That doesn’t usually sit well with kids. I may not have been the best, but saying I was an insubstantial player sort of hit me the wrong way.

We’ll give Young that much. Calling him an insubstantial player and Kentucky, the SEC school which offered him early in the process, an insubstantial school, is not a good way to make friends.

It’s safe to say these two won’t be exchanging pleasant phone calls any time soon.