Everybody transfers, everybody plays the angles, and the best kids know their touring summer coaches better than their high-school coaches, who, in theory, are also educators. NCAA recruiting rules make it worse. A coach has only five recruiting 'opportunities' with a prospect. They can either be actual off-campus contact, or an evaluation seeing him play. But they cannot surpass five.
Players can take only five paid recruiting visits to schools.
Instead, they have ballooned the plane and hotel bills, because if you don't follow the summertime flesh cavalcade, you don't see the best players. They penalize the mid-major schools who need more recruiting time to outwork the established TV schools. More critically, they keep the coaches and players from getting to know each other. If the coach chases his players around with a sword, some extra campus time would allow the prospect to learn that. If the prospect likes to relax by turning flame throwers on playgrounds, some extra visits might allow the coach to learn that.