Most of the time, I am a vocal critic of our deluded fans who make outlandish claims regarding players who "wanted to come here," but a staff just "didn't recruit them hard enough," and other such nonsense. It's false about 90% of the time.
Here, however, you actually do have a kid who was been all about UM for ages. Now, we lay a massive offensive egg this season, AND apparently got lazy in his recruitment.
He's from Chaminade, has wanted to play for the program for a long time, has played with several guys who play/played here, and has not previously been fishing for a reason to leave.
This one reads as we are ******* it up. And it's at a position of great need.
I'm usually not for this sort of take, but I've gotta call it here. I'll be really ****ed if we don't end up signing him, and I will fault the staff if it happens.