Championships do not happen loading up on 3 star players
Dumb comment. One of the dumbest of the dumb. You don't know our recruiting history in the '80's. Don't think we loaded up on five stars and then a lot of fouterr stars. We didn't. I followed it more closely then than most people here do now. We got beat time and again by FSU, ND and other schools for the most prized recruits. Jimmy built great teams out of unknown guys that kept getting better and better. We had tons of players like that. Tons. Very few truly elite blue chips.
It might be harder to do that now, but not entirely. Stars don't easily predict development, just talent at a fixed point which is now. Jimmy could identify the kids who could keep getting better and better. He had that knack, and so did Butch, who was Jimmy's R.C. until Dave Scott took over.