Seriously? Fred arrived with 3 scholarship players and nothing but his NBA connections to sell recruits on.
Prohm has a top 10 team this year and quite possibly a returning team of Monte, Cooke, Thomas, Burton, Nick N. and Babb plus the ability to add Midseason transfers and offer top HS playing time. CSP is in a much better position than a majority of first year coaches.
This year wasn't going to be a big transfer season in any case, for the reasons you stated and there isn't immediate playing time being available. The sky is far from falling.
Let me clarify, that obviously I'm talking about next year going forward. Clearly Fred passed on a great team for 2015-16.
But next year things get dicey. DG, Scotty and JVB were 3 solid players. We can split hairs about who was better, but either way we need to add several difference makers by next year.
I'm not saying we won't. In fact, I think we will. But I don't think there's any doubt that we're in a situation where the next two recruiting classes have to be good for Prohm to work out.