Good God there is so much copium on this thread for the past week. Lots of people saying it's the long game, wait till December, we will have flips, use the portal, we'll just use the leftover money on the next guy, Ojo is overrated, other programs are cheating, guys like Ojo go to Tech to die, etc etc etc. The reality is that Sark and Co did not read the tea leaves well this cycle. Obviously we really wanted most of the guys that rejected us -- Henderson, Lee, Griffin, Edwards, Lott, Finley, and on and on. We have been in second place for about a dozen highly ranked guys. I mean I think Ojo is full of himself and is more of a developmental player than a Kelvin Banks clone, but he's the #1 fucking OL recruit in the country. You don't think that's a guy we should be upset at losing, when we were in the lead two days before his announcement? Guaranteed if he chose the good guys, this board would be crowing about landing him. And for good reason; Flood would make that guy a beast here.
Will we be okay in the long run? Who the hell knows. Recent history says yes, but recent history also said we'd have landed a good chunk of these second place finishes. Anyway, doom rant over, but honestly recruiting this cycle has been a fucking gut punch.