bringing in 8 players to the team, and recruiting 8 players you can see the trend, and it's not what Dave rose did. Every coach has an idea of what players they want to recruit and what they want to change with the program. Of course, every team would love to take the best players, and they do when they have the chance, but when you can't take the best player, who do they take? When you can't have the top rated players in utah who is coach pope gunning for in recruiting? Or transfers?
For coach pope it's these diamond in the rough athletic guys.
For coach rose it was undersized talented guys.
Neither one is better than the other. Just a different style