I'd take it more to the development stages. Take Byron Cowart for instance. There's not a big name school in the country that didn't offer this guy. Ashley had it down to us, Florida and Florida State. They all saw the same things our staff did. Every one of them would have signed these guys. The question is what does the staff do with them when they get on campus? That and the snakes in Malzahn's head have been our problem IMO.
What are the numbers on other schools'(not named bammer) five star development?
If you have four at a position and one doesn't pan out, nobody knows unless he leaves. and this is a new era of leaving. So we get constantly compared to the factory across the state. What do we look like compared to the others? And many other schools have 3 and 4 stars leaving.
BCow was just at a position where we have a LOT of studs. He could have been great had he wanted to compete. Is that a coaching issue? The other guys competed.
Maybe we only recruit the "nice" 5 stars...