Recruiting is the LIFEBLOOD of a college football program. UM is smack dab in the most fertile football recruiting grounds in the country. As long as we have a competent coaching staff we'll never fall off.
Pitt fell off due to the high school football talent in Western PA declining for some reason, and Penn State started rolling in wins & started winning the in-state recruiting battles.
**** a desert, Nebraska is in a recruiting tundra. Nebraska got their start throwing bags around Southern California & Texas and were the first school to hop on the steroid wave. They left the Big 12 so the Texas recruiting pipeline dried up, everyone is dropping bags in LA now & everyone is on roids now.