I believe that our staff is pretty good at recognizing latent talent in certain recruits who are “undervalued” in terms of stars received. JOK comes quickly to mind.
However I believe that if we truly wanna track down the elites like Bama, Clem, OSU, etc., we can’t be chasing guys that are projects and MAY be starters in 3 years. BK is gonna need to drop his bias towards chasing 5* talent and start hitting them up aggressively just like they went after Freeman. I fully understand that many of them may not qualify academically but what’s the worst thing that could happen? Some will say no. Big deal. Keep asking and offering. Some of em are just waiting to be asked.