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Meyer defends recruiting practices

(AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) There must have been a lot of interesting give-and-take when the Big Ten football coaches met at the conference offices on Friday.

New Ohio State coach Urban Meyer faced off with at least a couple of coaches who have been reported saying they question his poaching of recruits who had already committed to other programs.

Meyer's first recruiting class on Wednesday included eight players who initially had said they were attending another school, including four who originally said they were going to Penn State and one each who had declared they would go to Michigan State and Wisconsin. Two others had verbally committed to Notre Dame.

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