It looks like Payne missed a lot of time due to an injury so I’m guessing a lot of those offers dried up. Moore I know had a lot of big offers but I think there were some questions around his motor If I remember correctly.
Yeah, Payne was battling a injury this year.
Moore had some big time offers for sure that he could have had. He has a really good relationship with Allen and has a lot of friends at IU already on the o-line (Indiana has something like three or four offensive lineman from Fort Wayne in the last two classes including a former teammate) so he felt comfortable in Bloomington).
This staff did a really good job of building relationships with kids and building trust with them. Our season sucked, no doubt, but for us to be able to hold onto the majority of our commits and add a few solid additions including another rivals 250 kid is testament to how well this staff can recruit and sell the program.