Forgive me if I'm wrong but didn't Dooley pull a top 15 class with less than two weeks..that Kiffin MOSTLY put together?
Yep...but it was a dumpster fire, so he gets a massive amount of credit for holding it together, and pulling in some huge fish on his own (Hunter and Rodgers), and even snagged a 4* RB...while we TOTALLY whiffed at that position, today. Kiffin had it worse. He took over a team that had seen a serious deterioration of talent....because of recruiting classes like today, over the span of a few years.
If Butch had done like he said he was going to do...hire the best staff in the country, he would have left all but his OC back at Cincinnati....hired Randy Shannon, Ellis Johnson or Tyrone Nix, then R. Garner and pulled a few from the NFL ranks.
THAT would have helped him pull in a top 10 class.
Instead, he chose to lie to the team, program, and fanbase, and ride with his Big East bros...letting them pocket the money that was supposed to go toward hiring better qualified candidates.
What if Dooley had done a similar thing...bring 80% of his La Tech staff? Think this class is in the doldrums. That first class of Dooley's would have been in the shiiter for sure. What we witnessed over the past 2 months is that scenario being played out.
