SALT LAKE CITY — Recruiting, at best, resembles something similar to the definition your first-grade teacher gave you when she taught the concept of a hypothesis: It's an educated guess.
For the Alabama's of the college football world or the Kentucky's of college basketball, those guesses don't often require a whole lot of education, even the most untrained of eyes can watch the Crimson Tide's Jonathan Allen or the Wildcats' De'Aaron Fox and know they're witnessing talent at work.
But for the Utah's of the world, the relatively newer, smaller fish finally swimming in a big pond, recruiting takes work, and it doesn't always work out.