2023 Recruiting theme: Consensus building and the transactional appeal

Fans who have followed recruiting for a length of time will recall multiple instances where prospects stated they were a packaged deal — meaning you get one, you get the other. Very commonly these allegiances, which have little tensile strength to begin with, fracture for myriad reasons. The most simple explanation is people have different wants in life and will typically choose the path that best serves their own self interest (or that of their parents — the true packaged deal is the helicopter dad and son he’s living through).