Recruiting was never going to be a problem with the dude we have in charge.
And it was pretty much 100.0% of the reason I wanted him here over every other viable candidate.
Simply put, you MUST recruit at this level to win championships consistently. Yes, you can have a TCU spike year once in a while. And we're all so starved for success, we'd probably sell one of our kids for a year like that. But I'm looking big picture. I want a SUSTAINABLE program. Year after year, I want to roll out a team who is simply more talented than anyone else we play.
This is how you do that. You stack a Top 3 class on top of a Top 7 class. This is ELITE recruiting.
If you wanna tell me Mario is a donkey and he can't coach and all this talent will go to waste, fine. I don't have evidence yet at Miami to refute that. You might be correct. But give me the guy with the ceiling. He may never reach it, but the talent acquisition at least makes it possible. Very, very, very, VERY few programs throughout history are winning year after year after year recruiting like Florida State. I don't care how good of a coach you are. Michigan recently comes to mind, but as weird as he is, Harbaugh is a coach who took an NFL team to the Super Bowl. He knows what he's doing. Clemson possibly in the mid 2010's with classes in the teens, but hitting on Watson and Lawrence back to back masks other issues. But these are very much exceptions to the rule. The rest of these programs over the last 20 years have had sustained runs have ALL stacked elite classes on top of elite classes.
Stacking talent like this doesn't guarantee you're going to produce a sustainable monster.
But not stacking talent like this pretty much does guarantee that you're not.