The fickleness of high school recruiting.
While recruiting has become a cottage industry since the late 1990s, it will always be such an inexact “science” as it has to do with development, needs and luck.
Yes, we know some guys are just better recruiters than others. See John Blake and Kevin Steele. But sometimes you are more lucky than good because someone else passed on a player and they ended up at your school.
Nebraska was not Johnny Rodgers number one choice for college way back in the late 1960s coming out of Omaha Tech High School.