Main problem with this lack of Mac's recruiting prowess topic seems that most the negative GC-reporters
are the most knowledgeable CFB analysts ... or should I say analists ?
Seems to me, these things are the root of these guys' non-rooting for Mac problem :
1) Mac left Alabama and Bama continued right on as the #1 team; thus Mac lost all credit for being
a main mover in Bama's success... making Mac a nil-draw to national elite recruits.
2) At "no-news CSU", Mac's teams were just so-so. So Mac was never "spotlighted" as a top-totem HC.
That's the same as being notable as an inadequate HC = bad publicity.
3) No Mac-coached CSU players got praise from CFB publicity pundits ... or from any NFL draft.
4) All the above plus UF having for 4 years the most unreliable head-coaching in CFB= UF cannot be
considered an elite program by elite recruits. Fall-short (failure).
Sure, the above can be used by naysayers to declare that Foley should never have hired coach McElwain -
thereby saying so-long to UF winning the SEC East. Thus, so-long to our first improving rebuild-step
in recruiting magnetism. (We' will show a reasonable leap in recruit attraction after this season, still only
Mac's 2nd season as UF's HC !)
Once the years of winning 10 games per season occur, elite recruits will come to UF. Homegrown boys
will see the revived UF Program as a leading choice. And recruiting stars will sky. IMHO.