A good recruiter can overcome any possible real (or imagined) shortcomings KSU has to KU, MU, OSU, ISU, BU, TT, etc.
Wishful thinking! Not true.
I'm more on Michigancat's side here. If you assume that we get a good to great recruiter or two, here's basically how I view the likelihood of us making up ground and out-recruiting our "peers":
ISU - WRSOAT could probably still beat them at a 50% clip. Ames
. 95% chance of out-recruiting ISU with a good recruiter
KU, BU, TT - We have a few disadvantages working against us with these schools, but they're not incredibly hard to overcome with a good to great recruiter. KU is easier to overcome than BU or TT since most Texas kids prefer to play in-state. If BU and TT were in the same state as us, we might be able to out-recruit them with WRSOAT...Lubbock and Waco are basically shitholes, and everyone in Texas knows it. 75% chance KU, 65% chance BU, 55% chance Tech
MU - They'd basically have to go into the shitter again for us to start consistently out-recruiting them like in the 90's. Otherwise, we have some definite disadvantages working against us. They're really getting a solid pipeline into Texas for the kinds of athletes they need to run their system, plus they've locked down their state much better than they have in the past. 30%.
OSU - Maybe we could beat them for the occasional 4 star or two, but they've got way too much money from T. Boone to really let us beat them consistently in recruiting battles. 5%.
Obviously, out-recruiting UT, A&M, or OU would involve them crashing and burning in spectacular fashion, John Blake at OU style, for a good decade. It's not inconceivable that a very good coaching staff at K-State could consistently produce classes right in about the middle (5th or 6th) of the conference, but going anywhere above 5th (beating MU, BU, ISU, KU, and TT) is going to be next to impossible unless one of the big programs falls from grace or T. Boone's money runs out in Stillwater.
