I agree with this. Fred missed on a lot of freshmen too and that was frustrating as well.
The difference between him and Prohm is Fred's staff was bringing in very high level transfers and the results bore it. Prohm and staff are bring in Hans f***ing Brase types (please don't make me list all of the bad transfers he's had)
Let's see how many high level transfers fred brings in now. The transfer game isn't even close to how it was back when fred started getting them.
Fred should definitely get credit for cornering the market back then but comparing 2013 to 2019 is night and day.