FWIW, I still disagree with the premise, but I've basically come to terms with it. I've applied to a D1 job I will get, but nothing is guaranteed beyond season 62. I'm not as pumped about being back at D1 as I should be, and I feel that WIS makes the "quest" to D1, tiresome and fruitlessly limiting.
SW Minnesota State is a black hole and I'm proud of what I was able to accomplish there with a barren landscape of recruits. I could have piggy-backed and got to D1 on the coattails of someone else, but that's just not me. When I first took over the job, the quest was never for D1 but it was to take over a SW Minnesota State team that only had 1 win from a human coach previously and turn them around. When I saw the amount of D1 virgins in Knight, I perked up...rightly or wrongly that's become my thing in HD, and sadly, I won't be able to coach any of the human-less teams that I initially sought when I decided I wanted to make D1 there...it is what it is. D1 never seems to be worth the hassle once I get there, I guess that says it all...