Grooming is an entirely different thing than having met the coach and him being high on your list if you need to hire someone. Grooming implies regular contact and mentoring. I don't think any of that took place or would be welcome by Baylor's AD. Mitch met Drew at the tournament a few years ago and got acquainted with him. He respected what he had done at Baylor so he was high on his list. There is nothing unusual about that. You'll have to show where on the interwebs it discusses our AD grooming him in any credible way.If only there was a way to know for sure. Like endless coverage of recruiting events, etc of which be never attended. Makes total sense considering he wasn't going to land those guys anyway.
It's also exactly why it was extremely wise to hire ab3 to cover those bases and put us in the game right away.
Again....this is all out there on the interwebs. It was barely a secret Mitch tabbed him as next and all was good.
Then somehow he never took into account they might not want to move.