IMVHO ultimately it wasn't any of those things that pushed him away. Sure there may have been a handler involved but in the long run that was just a symptom of the deeper underlying issue and that was UM. I really do believe that the administrations lack of commitment to football trickled down and caused all sorts of issues. Elite recruits wanted to go where they felt a commitment to football. They wanted to go where they felt that they would be properly developed and coached to get to the next level. So while we were pretending that our 2nd rate facilities didn't matter these kids were taking visits to schools like Auburn, LSU, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama etc....and getting blown away by the obvious financial commitment those SEC schools showed them. While our administration was hiring coaching staffs straight out of the Wal-Mart bargain bin like Shannon and Golden and hoping that nobody noticed the recruits noticed. The fact that we couldn't consistently land elite prospects and routinely lost out to many of the schools mentioned above was basically a referendum on our incompetent administration and their obvious lack of commitment to football. Dark times and bleak visions indeed.