Someday I would be curious to hear about what it’s like to be a coach at one of these places picking up 6 or 7 players regularly.
When you have a big frosh class, at least those players are ones that you’ve known for years so you already have a personal relationship, not to mention you’ve had a lot of time to think about how the player fits in to your style of play. And the recruits may have already interacted with each other.
This is a completely different animal. The players do have college experience so there’s less getting them up to speed but still you’re pulling together 7 transfers, a few HS recruits, and a few returners and trying to meld them together. Not even pro teams have that kind of turnover.