[LuckE2Bhere]

Put it another way: Stanford doesn't get the recruits Texas wants. As it turns out, Texas has so many good players that many of the players Texas doesn't want turn out to be really good players...But still, ideally, you'd want to take some of those players Texas wants. Not that that's likely to happen (I think Texas has only lost one player to another school that it offered this year?).

So Texas didn't "want" a 5-Star QB named Andrew Luck (or Ty Montgomery or Stepfan Taylor)?  If not, their recruiting department needs a serious upgrade in the talent-evaluation area!  If they don't "offer" you, does that really mean that they didn't "want" you (isn't it possible that they may have sincerely recruited you, and then learned that you really want to go somewhere else, before they've extended a formal scholarship offer)?

[LuckE2Bhere]

Put it another way: Stanford doesn't get the recruits Texas wants. As it turns out, Texas has so many good players that many of the players Texas doesn't want turn out to be really good players...But still, ideally, you'd want to take some of those players Texas wants. Not that that's likely to happen (I think Texas has only lost one player to another school that it offered this year?).

So Texas didn't "want" a 5-Star QB named Andrew Luck (or Ty Montgomery or Stepfan Taylor)?  If not, their recruiting department needs a serious upgrade in the talent-evaluation area!  If they don't "offer" you, does that really mean that they didn't "want" you (isn't it possible that they may have sincerely recruited you, and then learned that you really want to go somewhere else, before they've extended a formal scholarship offer)?