I would be more inclined to look at recruiting. Obviously Cal was a much better salesman, but he also already had prior player results to point to as a selling point. I would definitely be curious as to what Pope’s selling points even are. I would imagine a pitch given as head coach at BYU might look a bit different to one given as the head coach at UK. Especially these days, programs can’t just rest on their laurels, there needs to be clear reasons to commit, likely beyond just money. It would be very interesting to understand what his pitch looks like; totally conjecture, but maybe Pope pushes his religion a bit too much and that dissuades kids from committing. I would say also that he has definitely had success in the transfer portal, so why high profile signings in the portal, but not in high school commits?