I legit think CU is one of the toughest p5 jobs because it's so isolated geographically
Seriously?
yeah. Obviously some are worse but you aren't gonna have a full program of Colorado kids and their neighboring states are all low population states.
Nah, man. Colorado produces more talent than all the states around them and they are the only P5 program in their state and Utah and BYU are the only programs even close to them. They've done an awful job keeping what talent they do have in state. When they've been good they have the ability to recruit Texas and California the way we can only recruit Texas, it's one of the reasons why they left. They are routinely behind K-State, KU, Tech, Utah, and BYU in recruiting and that's unacceptable. They don't recruit their state or any of their neighboring states, worth a damn. They should be on the same kids as we are, but they aren't. Off the top of my head, since they've been bad we've gotten two guys, from Colorado, who both may be in the college football Hall of Fame one day. Not to mention a lot of good young players like Rubley and Pastore.
I don't know what their recruiting budget is, but the problem isn't the availability of players, but who they are targeting.