Soooooo, from the A+ elite point of view, you STILL signed two five star players. So what's changed again? I would venture to say that if you were at Illinois in 2.0 and there were any coaches around you with balls of any size, you wouldn't be signing two 5 star players with $60,000. I can tell you for a fact that were I in your conference and anywhere near you, you wouldn't be signing two 5 star players with $60,000. That was a huge part of the problem in 2.0, coaches nuts would shrivel up come recruiting time.
I can tell you this much, when I coached Duke in Tark, had Swiners at UNC, BillyG at Kentucky, then S. Carolina, can't remember who was at Virginia off the top of my head but "back in the olden days", it was a bloodbath in ACC/SEC territory come recruiting time. There wasn't anyone signing two 5 star guys with only two openings and $60,000. In fact, it was very likely that you weren't signing ANY 5 star guys and only maybe a 4 star. All of us were super competitive and we all kept each other in check, so no one team got too overloaded. You know, kinda how it's supposed to be. But that was the good old days...........now GET OFF MY LAWN!!!