[winflop]

Per 247Sports.com, here are Haase's recruiting rankings:
2017 - 14
2018 - 20
2019 - 59
2020 - 19
2021 - 21

So unless you think their rankings are garbage, I think there's a pretty strong argument that the talent IS there

The players that made those rankings good are no longer on the team. Every single 4*+ player from the bolded classes is no longer on the roster. 

Put another way, every single upperclass player on the current team was a 3* recruit. Is that "the talent?"

Why are you limiting it to only upperclass players? Plenty of teams around the country have true freshmen not only playing but starting and being impact players - and have for years.

Maybe it's because the current freshman class doesn't support the basis of your argument.

And it also does nothing to explain the previous season when 4* and 5* talent was on the roster and the results were the same big ball of mediocrity we got from Dawkins.

That game was just Jerod Haase 6.0 - a version that never should have happened but we are now stuck with.

[winflop]

Per 247Sports.com, here are Haase's recruiting rankings:
2017 - 14
2018 - 20
2019 - 59
2020 - 19
2021 - 21

So unless you think their rankings are garbage, I think there's a pretty strong argument that the talent IS there

The players that made those rankings good are no longer on the team. Every single 4*+ player from the bolded classes is no longer on the roster. 

Put another way, every single upperclass player on the current team was a 3* recruit. Is that "the talent?"

Why are you limiting it to only upperclass players? Plenty of teams around the country have true freshmen not only playing but starting and being impact players - and have for years.

Maybe it's because the current freshman class doesn't support the basis of your argument.

And it also does nothing to explain the previous season when 4* and 5* talent was on the roster and the results were the same big ball of mediocrity we got from Dawkins.

That game was just Jerod Haase 6.0 - a version that never should have happened but we are now stuck with.