lets not rewrite history regarding Deboers recruiting… by the time he left, high school recruiting was largely done and his efforts were clearly underwhelming. The Portal period was almost done as well and he had largely struck out even when it was obvious that the team had a lot of good positions to fill for instant playing time for big time players.
From a recruiting standpoint the dawgs clearly dodged a bullet when Debo left ~ it seemed obvious to all that the 2024 team was going to have a lot of holes with no apparent momentum in recruiting which concerned all of us at the time