Of course coaches make recruiting mistakes, you just don't always hear about them.
Pitcher on my daughter's club team really wanted to play for her moms alma mater but come her senior year of highschool the coach told her she could walk on but would never play. Fast forward a year, my daughter's juco team is scrimmaging subject college. Pitcher the coach chose over subject pitcher is just flat horrible. No idea what coach thought he saw when recruiting. Fast forward again to 3-4 weeks into season and club ball coach gets a call from college coach looking for pitcher he passed on because he is in pitching trouble. Club ball coach tells college coach he didn't look very hard because girl he is looking for is a student at his college on a full academic ride. And that's the worst part, the girl was free to him and he chased her off. Girl ultimately told him to go pound sand, he had his chance to take her and passed. She never played ball again.
Pitcher on my daughter's club team really wanted to play for her moms alma mater but come her senior year of highschool the coach told her she could walk on but would never play. Fast forward a year, my daughter's juco team is scrimmaging subject college. Pitcher the coach chose over subject pitcher is just flat horrible. No idea what coach thought he saw when recruiting. Fast forward again to 3-4 weeks into season and club ball coach gets a call from college coach looking for pitcher he passed on because he is in pitching trouble. Club ball coach tells college coach he didn't look very hard because girl he is looking for is a student at his college on a full academic ride. And that's the worst part, the girl was free to him and he chased her off. Girl ultimately told him to go pound sand, he had his chance to take her and passed. She never played ball again.