The Staff wouldn’t recruit someone who isn’t qualified.
This is true. In the past we'd have posters that claim all the blue chip 5 stars that we recruit most likely wouldn't qualify anyway (conveniently they mention this after we've already lost them in a recruiting battle when the coaches couldn't land them). Thank you for speaking the truth; we target and offer the best players in the nation each year and always have. Hopefully now we can snag a few of them through relentless recruiting.
Time will tell. I stopped following recruiting when Paul got here because we were taking it on the chin with classes in the 50s, 60s, 40s maybe.
As much as people don't want to agree with this the fact is you have to GET THE BETTER TALENT on your roster, and then worrying about outscheming your opponent. It's not the other way around. You can't win consistently when you're overmatched.
On the flip side of that, recruiting studs doesn't guarantee success on it's own. You then have to scheme and coach well. But the talent is more important than the coaching, it's just a fact, and that bothers a lot of people here. The difference is sometimes a coach can just roll the ball out there and his superior players are going to win the game for him, not always, but a lot of times. A coach can't just roll the ball out there with his inferior talent and win against a superior team. It's not happening, ever.
Paul could take inferior talent and beat better talent sometimes, but not consistently. He's one of maybe 3 or 4 coaches I've seen in the modern era great enough to pull that off.
I hope this was on topic, I'm tired and finally just finished my taxes.