https://www.rockmnation.com/2014/10/9/6946465/mizzou-recruiting-thomas-bryant-antonio-blakeney-isaiah-briscoe
His staff that he was given initially did have a sufficient amount of national recruiting connections to overcome his known deficiencies. That was the whole premise for undertaking such a ludicrous gamble. He failed anyway, because even with national recruiting connections he was not going to succeed so they were irrelevant.