You have followed Coach Prime more closely than anyone else on this site, I think. Why do you think he struggles to close OL in particular?
They don't give a **** about glamor in general and that's what we offer, glamor. Everyone offers five star food, coaching to a degree, fitness, health, etc. Everyone in the P5 and some G5s. But what we offer the most is glamor. We got Amazon doc, daily film reports from WellOff, on ESPN and FS1 because we are glamorous. That's what we offer that's different and unique. They don't value that as much.
And some that do, what do they value the most. A lot of skill guys and defensive guys came cause of Prime. We did elite in DL recruiting considering we didn't offer NIL. Just imagine we have NIL. We would have cleaned house.
With the OL. We just haven't did well. We lost Cameron Johnson to G5. We lost battles with multiple guys to G5s in the trenches. That wasn't a NIL, that was different.
It's hard to recruit OL. The best don't leave and they want stability when they do. Michigan got crushed by the NFL and replaced all 3 guys with high 3 and 4 star OL who fit their scheme. High IQ guys and they were heavily targeted by every P5. We couldn't even get those guys to wave at us.
The reason why I am hopeful is, we have 2 which at that time, even you guys doubted him as it seems no one watches HBCU football. This year, everyone knows he's the real deal. He's going to get OL who want to come since he's a top tier pick, they want that attention from the NFL. Glamor helps but now we also got NIL to close the deal.
It's hard to recruit OL. Everyone struggles with it. Everyone. Because you don't know who's peaked. Who's still got a lot of potential. Who can handle the playbook and their role, etc. You just don't know.
We struggled to win NIL less battles for Jatta. We had to take in a kid who had rape history as a walk on likely to land Jatta. That's how talent deficient we were and I don't think we realized it and even when we did, we missed on everyone. We literally offered every OL available. In HS and the portal. We just couldn't land guys. It was tough.
The OL is the hardest positions to recruit for. Bar none. But for Prime, it's extra difficult because what he does best doesn't always appeal to them. That said, CU has open spots, Travis Hunter, 2, and other really good weapons. We should have a lot of interest because players want to play with elite players and we got some of those guys.