There's a whole lot to unpack and dislike about Duffy's soundbyte analysis, but in my opinion, Bill's reliance on two-start talent is Bill's preference more than anything inherent about Kansas State.
If Snyder wanted to change his message and take a different approach in recruiting kids, we'd see something closer to what we saw in 1999-2003, when we were getting Top 20-30 classes. I think the 2001 or 2002 class was ranked something like #14 or something ridiculous like that.
However, once he made that turn, he started hating dealing with the kids he was recruiting, so he burnt out and left. Then he came back and started recruiting a bunch of two-star/three-star kids out of the gate and started recruiting grayshirts instead of JUCO's.
Bill likes the two-star kids because they do what he says without questioning him. It allows him to do whatever he wants because what's Sean Newlan and Kyle Klein going to do about it?