What is going on is TJ was painted as the be/all end/all in recruiting by his groupies.
Which was a disservice to him.
He will get his share to fit his mold and hopefully be successful doing it, just like last season. But truth be known not everyone is beating down the door to play at ISU.
I think this year is kind of weird, if AJ Green's status has an odd timeline, it's just complicated, if he had committed 3 or 4 weeks ago, things could be different. We'd have one of the top guys in the portal.
Hunter's timing was also a bit awkward, he wasn't late announcing by any means but he was after the first big wave of guys, so we recruited that first wave selling TH as a big part of the team. I think that could have thrown a bit of wrinkle in things with those guys.
I really like the guys we have, especially if AJG ends up being in the mix. We've only "missed" on the 5 spot. Things seem right in line with what TJ has said he wanted to do. He wanted to zero in on guys he had connections to and then work his way out to other guys. I think Bates was really the first "work your way out" kind of guy.
I don't think its bad I guess, Green makes it arguably a better class than last year.