Yeah they lucked out with Clowney. He was tight with Gilmore and Holloman and really liked Ellis Johnson (Spurrier's DC). He was USC bound for minute.
Stewart is close with Nyckoles Harbor. Beamer tried to push the DMV to SC nonsense. I thought it worked until I started hearing numbers.
Anyway, I was told they see it as "its a lot easier to get the next one here, when you've already got one on the roster." They'll try to spend big on at least one every year, before eventually going all out when the time is right.