They left because our program is a runaway train of incompetence.
Doesn't mean we shouldn't get back on the saddle and go get more good players. Even if it means those players are good enough to have other, better options.
Your attractive girlfriend just broke up with you, so you start dating a 300 lb whale with no teeth, just to protect your fragile psyche because you know they aren't going anywhere. That's your attitude. And you are convincing yourself it doesn't stem from just straight butthurt.
Good players aren't going to hang around a toxic ass place full of losers if they have better options. Sorry. The solution to that isn't to avoid the players. The solution is to stop being a toxic program full of losers.
And before you go there this isn't some diatribe on Will Allbright. I'm sure if you told him a year ago that he would be taking meaningful practice reps at LB, he would tell you something went terribly wrong too. It is just common sense.