I'm always so amazed at how many complain that Leavitt didn't recruit well, etc? When you're a 7-9 year old program fresh out of trailers, how do you think a coach goes into a kids house who just got wooed by Ohio St, Alabama, etc, and talk him into changing his life's dreams and coming to little new kid on the block USF? The fact that he got who he did with what he had to work with was nothing short of amazing.
When you get up to #2 in the nation and some big wins, your recruiting should improve over prior years. It not only didn't improve, it appears it backslid. That is worthy of criticism.
Actually, on paper, it did improve in 2009 ... and then came the upheaval.
On paper, turned into a disaster on the field.
Thanks to Holtz not Leavitt!
Go look at the names on that list. You'll see how few of them were unable to contribute anything at all. Pretty serious lack of talent in that class.
Their lack of production goes down to the coaching.