"our recruiting has gone through the roof in the past decade"
Kentucky, Duke and Carolina might be considered "through the roof." We're not on that level. We don't ever seem to be in 'deep consideration' for Top Five players. Not for a long while. Who was the last? Winfred Walton?
I'm not complaining. We're consistently getting a nice quantity of 'very good' players. It's different from how it was in the 80s-90s, when we might occasionally get a Pearl, DC, Owens, but the rest of the guys were "3-star-ish."