You’re going to have to do some reconciling for me here.
First, Sark has NFL ties. He was OC for a Heisman QB with multiple highly drafted WRs/RBs. Presumably that was a draw here for Ewers. That draw for other QBs is here whether Ewers ever shows up, right?
You referenced the draws for other offensive guys. We are now in year 5 of the Sark regime. 3 NFL TEs later, none of which Sark recruited. In year 5, we got a portal TE because we were not satisfied with our TE.
WR. Worthy here already. Whitt here already. I guess maybe Mitchell but after 2022? I suppose Bond, Golden, Boldin. But none the less the high school pipeline has had modest returns. Year 5, and we’re still hitting the portal.
I suppose the Oline guys that all committed about the same time, but there were certainly other factors at play. Conner, Majors, Jones were all here.
The RB room. Pretty stacked when Sark arrived. Injuries impacted it last year. I guess #4 who has had somewhat limited impact thus far.
Coburn, Ojomo, Sweat, Murphy, Collins, Broughton, DMO, Ford, Jahdae, Sorrell, Taaffe all were here. Then guys who contributed Gbenda, Blackwell, Thompson. Odd that Collin Simmons would come for one year to watch Ewers from the sideline.
Perhaps he did some behind the scenes work to keep guys here. It’s all pretty convoluted with NIL and all associated with that.
It is true that you change any variable about the past then the outcome changes. And we’ve had pretty good outcomes the past two years.