Today's out of touch moment w/ the big 3 was touting Will Harris as a up and coming coach on some top 50 list, and that people (paying customers many who follow and have forgotten more about a recruiting cycle than they know combined) b/c of that are naive and stupid.
Unless you think Harris is a PK level DC in waiting, then him being unable to recruit which is 50% of his job is a Code Red Issue no matter how they try to spin it.
Anyway, Let me tell you how this list is determined. They run a data base of every coach on staffs under target age with less than 5 years in career. From there, they look at school, how many kids have been drafted in NFL (whether they were a part of it or not), AND finally (the important part) cultivate the list so that as many schools and geographical areas as possible can be represented.
Taking the kid who had no offers a week b4 fall camp started, flipping the kid from Arizona, looking at this JC to fill a immediate need as separate one offs might be explainable, All three together tell you a story that you have to whistle past the grave not to see db recruiting is going very poorly.
Remember, doogman couldn't get off Hamden's balls for 1.5 years, until the bye week when it leaked out (essentially confirmed) that there was a change going to be made at OC.