You're gunna get murdered for this, and I guess I kinda get it, but I think I've detected your overall sentiment and agree with it for the most part.
Coming off of 5-7 with that defensive showing and the poor recruiting on defense up top, that's not a great recipe for recruiting success. Luckily some great people (a lot of them on here) have done beyond a fantastic job with the NIL stuff, and continue to, or I'd hate to see what last year and this year's classes would look like. So all of that to say, "flipping" guys who are verbals elsewhere, or who ultimately sign elsewhere who are wanting to transfer after a year, CAN be things to consider IFFFFF Sark can pull off a decent enough bounce-back season. That type of season coupled with having a guy like Arch coming and one of the best NILs in the country, and we can flip guys we might lose out on the first go around.
Now if you seriously doubt the possibility of a bounce-back season that recruits would be satisfied with, especially when held up to whatever aggy ends up doing, then of course it's more important to win those recruitments NOW and stay on top of them, so then everything I said prior to this paragraph can be crumbled up and shoved up my ass as far as you're concerned. Whatever