Arch is probably a good example of a guy who was way ahead of the curve as a HS senior, but had probably hit his ceiling or was very close to it by that point. He just never got much better afterwards. A HS 5-star QB is just a meh major program QB.
This just went right over your head. "For the encouragement of the others" is the English translation of "Pour encourager les autres," a French phrase that translates literally to "in order to encourage the others" used ironically to describe a harsh punishment carried out publicly as a warning...
I'm certainly not complaining, but you're not wrong. For whatever reason over the past almost 20 years and two regimes, they just seem snakebit against us. I'm happy, but it almost seems unreal.