I feel this way too a bit. It was the perfect storm for Lovie this year....bad team with tons of opportunities for young and good talent to come in and contribute. Combine that with a banner crop of kids in state and the level of recruits that competing schools in division(Purdue, Nebraska) have already signed at those positions in previous classes....it looked like they were destined to win some of these battles this year.
I think Henning might have committed to us early but there's a lot of talent incoming with Bell, Wright, Rice and Sheffield all in one class. He's good but with Moore, Bell and Wright there were likely not a ton of opportunities for Henning and others to contribute early for us. I can't fault a kid for going to a 'non big name' school to get quality PT. It's why we cleaned up this year!