re: Advice for J. Sayin

That's not the point. Only so many players on an 85 man roster can get meaningful playing time. With pay for play masked as NIL, nothing being done to rein in tampering, and transfer waivers about to become a thing of the past, there's just no reason to believe that you'll be able to stash top 100 recruits on your bench for very long until someone buys them out from under you. Coaches still need to recruit talent. No one is saying that. The point is that success going forward for all but the programs who can spend whatever it is they need to spend might be as much a question of which coaches will be able to most effectively identify the undervalued recruits who turn into early round draft picks as it is a question of who are the best recruiters. You can stick those under the radar guys on your bench for a couple of years and develop them. I think you still want to sign a bunch of blue chip recruits because the hit rate on them is so much higher, but creating depth is going to be all about player development instead of recruiting going forward. You can't just go 3 deep with former top 100 recruits every season anymore unless you're able to pay them enough to sacrifice playing time. Even a program like Texas has limitations there.