That's the answer that everyone seems to overlook, Coach Q, he got program to where we could recruit with top teams but then he burnt the program to the ground. He walks away but SU has black eye for how we handled the situation, we lost a team, another recruiting classs and essential loss any players that might have shown interest in last 4 years. Then you add covid year, portal had just changed that you no longer needed to sit for year and now NIL, an interim coach and SU is not on any recruit's list.
Coach Jack has difficult uphill battle to make SU relevant again. NIL does complicate the issue as SU seems to lag behind other schools.
As for player picking Vandy over us maybe coaching, Ralph spent 13 seasons at UConn, assisting for 12 conference championship and 6 national championship teams, plus also played on national championship team. Vandy had number 8 recruit as freshman this year, so Ralph is building.