A few things.
One, McIntosh needs to untie he and Sanguinetti's cranks, all he's going to do is get his boy done real dirty by a school who drags him along for his pal's sake and then drops him with fewer options and he would have had otherwise.
Two, you can't entirely cut off all communication with a recruit like Wright from a pipeline school. At this point, I would send your three or four best recruiters and most convincing storytellers after the kid and try to patch things up, because it looks like you're going to need him.
Lastly, we're going to have some crowing every single year from recruits. At UM, it's damned if you do damned if you don't. If we are in communication with a kid, but don't give him a committable offer, then we get in trouble for slow-playing him. On the other hand, if we let things play out before initiating contact, we're told we were too late. I think the key is to be smarter about who falls into what category and don't play games at pipeline schools with recruits you may very well need. Even if he's not as high on the board as he wants to be, he should feel as though he is. That's the game the elite recruiters are playing and winning with.