St. Mary's knows they can get the type of player for their system in Australia because nobody else feels they need to be down there. They are not in a recruitment war for these guys. The assumption for most D1 schools is we have better players in America who will play for us. We don't need to go elsewhere. It's true for most schools. But for BYU? We can't get A LOT of recruits so we could benefit from being more active overseas.
Look, if we don't have more connections overseas than anybody else then that's our own fault. We are world wide.