They’re playing Ohio, KY, and Indiana powerhouses that pull talent from everywhere, and filled with future college players at all levels. Sometimes, they are playing national power houses.
Elder is getting their talent from a small pocket of the westside of Cincinnati, with a handful that MIGHT play at lower levels. This isn’t hard to understand.
You either have to start recruiting more broadly for talent or start developing a deeper bench of contributors. Again, not rocket science.
And again, I don’t think Elder families care about broadening the scope to get more talent to improve the whole of the program - they just want their boy to be able to say they ran out of that tunnel. They feel they’re entitled to that being a westside kid with that “dream”.
It is what it is. Stop saying I’m coming out of left field with this, you know it’s the truth. If you’re good with that, then fine, be good with that. But I think they are selling them selves extremely short.