I accept that Manny Diaz had a horrible offense his first year, then realized his offense sucked and switched to a spread offense, which resulted in a top 26 offense in consecutive years (including demolishing FSU) , and that Cristobal deliberately chose to go back to a dinosaur offense, which predictably was a massive failure (including getting his b-hole turned inside out by Norvell) , and is now switching back to the spread offense he should have pursued from the start. The talent level on the team isn't the main reason that UM just had its worst season in 20+ years and top QBs have zero interest.
To put this in context, even after Diaz's initial terrible season, top QBs still wanted to come to UM, including highly coveted QBs like Jake Garcia and D'Eriq King. You think Diaz was just better at being a salesman to QBs than Cristobal? Seems unlikely. So why is Cristobal struggling to bring in top QB talent even with the massive advantage of NIL? I think it has to do with QBs not believing that he's actually going to open up the throttle, even with Andre Dawson as OC. Maybe it's other coaches negative recruiting and saying Cristobal isn't really changing his stripes and that Dawson is going to be handcuffed. Unfair? Untrue? Maybe. But the narrative is sticking for a reason.
