The kids Utah is getting from Florida and Texas hold lower star ratings and are better on the field.
If you look at the Pac 12 as a whole, California is the recruiting ground for most of the schools in the conference and the conference is starting to lag behind the others in a big way. Something is amiss in the California kids. I don't know what, but they are not as good as the Texas/Florida/Southern/Ohio kids.
Just another perspective.