It bothers me when people seem to live their lives second guessing. If you can't recognize that Frost's first class was a last minute scramble, and imperfect even by his own admission, then you just must feel like complaining. The fact we are pulling kids out of some of the hotbeds for football talent, and asking them to come to a place most have never been to is always going to be tricky. And please don't say that's why we need to keep all the local talent, because first we can't survive living off that, and second, there are always going to be kids interested in heading to somewhere other than Lincoln, and until we build a consistent winner, that will be more frequent.
Have you ever made a wrong hire? How many people have you hired, and had them not work out, or simply leave for greener pastures? Have you been divorced? Is there a bigger sign of a complete failure to vet than divorce? Have you ever changed jobs? It's pretty obvious if you change a job you didn't do so because you were thrilled with the position, so did you fail to evaluate the job, or did the company fail because they didn't see your shortcomings?
Washington was known in the sense he'd had some issues, academics were not a strength, and he was going to be a rehabilitation of sorts, but his talent was obvious, and considered worth the risk. The serial rapists were obviously missed by several programs, because their offer list was pretty solid. Do you expect a private detective be hired to dig into the lives of every kid? A kid like Gray said it was a family thing, then took his 4* talent to a far lower program. Should the staff have asked if he had family members with health issues? If they had asked, would we have turned him down?
I said it in another post, our own team leadership and locker room need to improve to help our players have a better bond within the program. I can think of a ton of situations in my life that a team mate was having some struggles, but we as a team pulled them out of their funk. Heck, read the story of Brook B. and how he was discussing leaving, only to have Graham talk him off the ledge. A stronger nucleus, that will go a long way to adding to the stability of the roster.
All of this can be true, and it can also be true that the staff has made some mistakes along the way. I have full confidence that they will correct these going forward.
