I think a lot of guys have verified that he took time off, as well as the entire staff. The optics are that since they were vacationing that they dropped the ball closing on these three guys. But, what we also know is that is was at the tail end of a contact period leading into a dead period. The kids couldn’t be on campus and coaches couldn’t visit, but they could make calls/texts…which you can obviously do from anywhere. There’s a lot of assumption and innuendo, but you can’t argue the optics are bad for Mike Brown and ostensibly Freeman, also.
If we close on two of these guys, nobody makes a sound. Close on one, there’s some frustration. But, we ended up with none, so we go defcon-1.
We’ll see how it plays out. I personally think 1/3 of those guys ends up signing with ND, Robinson being most likely and Hines being second most likely. I think Hall eventually flips. And, I think some rising senior with a good senior campaign comes on board. I think those three plus Burress complete the WR room and that Bettis ends up a S.
