I'm going to circle back around and focus on this one point.
Is Kirby Smart a failure because of all the time he invested into recruiting Jackson Cantwell and Derrek Cooper and Vance Spafford?
Seriously.
Everyone wants the top kids. EVERY school (except the one that gets the signature) has "massively wasted the most valuable resource of TIME".
You are veering into this bizarre and insane
@cway313 territory. Where you are starting to espouse the "surrender monkey" approach to certain recruits that, I guess, you think we can read their minds or something.
Bunch of 17 and 18 year old kids with short attention spans and a large need for attention. They have ALWAYS been allowed to take 5 official visits, though there is no longer a limit. That means that 80% of the schools that host these top recruits are FAILURES.
If you honestly believe that Mario is going to land 100% of the blue-chippers he spends time with, you should just say so and then people can mock your ridiculous beliefs. Sure, in a perfect world, it would be AWESOME if every coach (or at least the Miami coaches) could magically figure out which recruits to "spend time with" and which recruits they could give up on.
Good lord...every time I think I'm talking to a poster with a moderate amount of logic and common sense and realistic expectations, I find out that he's a stubborn hard-head moper who expects Mario Cristobal to be a mind-reader who can figure out how to spend all his time with the "serious" Miami recruits while ignoring the rest.
Unbelievable.