Absolutely, because I was very happy that we finally had a decent to solid recruiting class. It was not great in the larger scheme of thing unless you were comparing it to our average recruiting over the last 10 years. It was a building block class that would hopefully launch us to the next level. Obviously the class had some warts at the bottom, but it had some quality at the top. Then he saw the writing on the wall and left us, and it all fell apart. We spent millions to keep Chev to save the class. What a waste.Weren't you doing cartwheels over Midnight Mel's recruiting efforts???
Problems:
1) It was one class.
2) Most of our recruiting classes have been bad.
3) He had a good top of the class. Those players have now left. Now we are left with the skeleton crew of the middle and bottom of his class
We've been to one real bowl game since 2008 (COVID year gets the *). None of this is a surprise. Nor is it surprising that a heartbeat in recruiting gets people excited.