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I think Flemming's point is:  talk about a "sweet spot" of effort vs. results  makes one wonder:  If  recruiting is running efficiently [ effort per recruit] are we then failing to optimize (or missing) opportunities? 

I haven't seen anyone talk about a "sweet spot" for Stanford recruiting other than Matt Squeri over on the Bootleg. Neither that phrase nor anything similar is in any of the Anderson quotations.

I think Fleming's point is simpler.
Harbaugh was an aggressive recruiter in that he extended an "offer" to any high school football player with basic motility, sorting out who he really wanted later. Shaw seems quite opposed to that "figuring out later" part and is less aggressive, or more circumspect and deliberate in choosing which players to tell they have an offer.
Fleming thinks a little more of the former would net Stanford a few more top recruits.

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I think Flemming's point is:  talk about a "sweet spot" of effort vs. results  makes one wonder:  If  recruiting is running efficiently [ effort per recruit] are we then failing to optimize (or missing) opportunities? 

I haven't seen anyone talk about a "sweet spot" for Stanford recruiting other than Matt Squeri over on the Bootleg. Neither that phrase nor anything similar is in any of the Anderson quotations.

I think Fleming's point is simpler.
Harbaugh was an aggressive recruiter in that he extended an "offer" to any high school football player with basic motility, sorting out who he really wanted later. Shaw seems quite opposed to that "figuring out later" part and is less aggressive, or more circumspect and deliberate in choosing which players to tell they have an offer.
Fleming thinks a little more of the former would net Stanford a few more top recruits.