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So it’s not that our staff is incompetent at closing, they are just dumb? The staff clearly prioritized him. They had him on campus a ton. Bogle had CBs to Miami from plenty of plugged in people. People pretending he was never coming here and this isn’t an example of a continuing failure...

Because they failed? Look. If you judge the staff based on how much effort they put in, that’s fine. They can keep striking out with the top defensive recruits in South Florida, and you can take comfort in the fact that at least they aren’t lazy losers.

Of course. We loved him. He was one of the top recruits on our board.

Ok

I love the people arguing this isn’t a failure. We basically hung outside his bedroom window the entire recruiting season playing Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” on our boom box. It’s impossible to argue the sfaff didn’t prioritize him. Anybody arguing, “hey, we tried as hard as we could,”...

Cool. That explains why we had him come on two official visits.

How? Because he didn’t sign???

Of course it was.

Complete failure by the staff.

That's not the same thing as having a guy that can't do anything but eat up space. Wilfork was huge, but I wouldn't classify him as a "Mount Cody type player."

To be fair, Saban doesn't really recruit the "Mount Cody" type players anymore. He's realized he needs more disruption in the backfield to succeed on defense in today's game.

So we won a bunch of top tier offensive recruits last year that let us buy them on credit?

Which was carried largely by recruiting wins on the offensive side of the ball. We also had the class pretty much locked up before the season started and the wins came. Unless you’re trying to pretend like winning 9 games was “winning.” The class closed poorly, even with the 10 win season and...

Just stop. The idea that these guys were never coming here is something you tell yourself to feel better about losing them. It removes responsibility from the staff. The fact is that most of those guys had Miami CBs from Insiders plugged into the recruiting world. The staff recruited them...

Who cares what we did before the era of recruiting rankings? Nobody wins national championships without what the sites rank as "elite classes." And the reason for that is because the recruiting sites have gotten too accurate. Every year there are less and less diamonds in the rough. You can...

Which just shows how great the recruiting was. Dude wasn't really a Miami guy. Didn't really fit in once he got here. And yet, we still won him over. Like a ******* that convinces a straight girl to go ******* for a night even though it's not her thing. You've got "it" if you're able to do...

OSU didn't go hard after Williams because we had already won him over by that point. That's how recruiting works. You're allowed to get into a kid's ear and sweet talk him so that he only has eyes for you. UF was horrible but was having its BEST recruiting season. They had a Top 10...

Move on to what? This staff wants to field an elite team. That means you need to win recruiting battles for elite talent. You can't just constantly say, "You're wasting your time with Bogle. Move on to the next one. You're wasting your time with Stevenson. Move on to the next one. Jobe is...

What? We had to take Jarren Williams from an SEC team, and beat out Ohio State for him at the same time. We beat out the SEC for Ezzard. Reed was somebody everybody had going to UF before Miami took all the momentum from them for him. I'd actually say Jordan wasn't really a battle, as he...

None of this explains the offensive recruiting v. defensive recruiting last year.