Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel, senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger and Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde breakdown the mindset behind Coach Prime’s recruiting and coaching philosophy as head coach at University of Colorado. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Coach Prime decided to wax poetic again about his, explain his recruiting philosophy and why he does not recruit high school many high school players.

And uh at seven and two with the Buffaloes, he's got the, uh he's got the bully pulpit right now.

And so that has been the criticism, recruit more high school kids.

He says, no, Ross.

What do you think?

Yeah, it's an interesting take that probably has some truth to it.

I'm, I'm sure a lot of freshmen who don't play these days, right?

In this era, their first year they leave.

He's got a point of take whatever 8, 1012 high school kids and then fill, you know, 8, 1012 transfers, right?

Um And it does, it kind of, it kind of makes a lot of sense.

Um He said he's done the research.

I'd love to see that those numbers.

Those are, these are pretty deep numbers.

So I'd love to see what, what's true there.

Georgia had the number one recruiting class.

So they brought in the most studs.

They've had two guys, two freshmen that have played a lot, but this is the best class and there's not many of them getting on the field, there's two high impact guys, three impact guys and some other contributors.

There's some guys making impacts, but they're not whole classes of guys making impacts.

So Dion's right, you're basically wasting 30 to 40% of your roster on developmental guys.

So if you're gonna play 50 you got 85 and 35 guys are just there and you get guys, let's put some weight autumn.

we like him.

He's gonna learn maybe by junior.

He's a good lineman or he's this or that or, or Q Bs or we got depth at all these positions and it's almost like it's more efficient to have 75 players as veterans that you brought in because you think they can play right away and 10 freshmen developing just by numerically, you have a better chance of out of those 75 transfers who are juniors or sophomores on up to grad grad, right?

You've got a better shot numerically of finding 4550 guys out of that than you do.

If you've got 25 freshmen standing there and you're only gonna play two.

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