I'm not saying that this is the case with Huggins, but I learned a lesson about football recruiting and the difficult projecting prospects several years ago. Back in the '90s, my high school alma mater [Corcoran] had some loaded teams. One year, they had a group of kids who went to Syracuse, Virginia, NC State, and Penn State. This was a team that Will Allen was on. There was also a highly rated running back on that team named Omari Howard, who committed to Syracuse.
I went to a playoff game in the Dome, where Corcoran obliterated some other NYS playoff team. Corcoran's OL was HUGE, and it seemed like just about every run, the hole would be so big that Howard would already be through the front 7 before anyone even put a hand on him. That is to take nothing away from the kid's ability, mind you, but several times he would get into the secondary and then break long runs. And because he was such a better athlete than most of the kids he was playing against to say nothing of being much faster, even the opposing secondary players couldn't catch him.
I found myself wondering in that game whether it was due to Howard being that great of a RB prospect, or due to the fact that the Corcoran OL was so dominant.
Howard ended up not making it to Syracuse for various reasons, and I think he ended up at a 1AA school [umass maybe?]. If I'm not mistaken, Howard was a four-star recruit, but never really panned out. I don't know much about Huggins other than his recruiting ratings, but I wonder if playing on a powerhouse high school team led to a similar effect.
