Are you illiterate?
Once again who said it was ALL Cal? No one, certainly not me! I specifically said UK’s name made him a better recruiter, and he made UK more appealing to recruits (because of his NBA sales pitch).
Are you so dumb to think the best recruiter of all time (whomever that is, K or Cal or Wooden or Dean Smith or…) could go recruit at Jackson St or Navy or ETSU just as good as they did at their elite schools? No!!!! So of course he recruited better at UK than the 2 mid-majors. I said that! But He had more success recruiting at those mid majors than they should have had.
It should be obvious that he brought in more highly rated players on average than other past UK coaches. But his poor coaching could only turn that into 1 championship. That doesn’t mean there have been great recruiting classes at UK in the past who were as good or better as Han Cal’s best. But on average they weren’t. If I were to rank recruiters at UK, I would go:
Cal
Hall
Sutton
Pitino
Tubby
BCG
(I left off Rupp because I think it was so different then)