If you don't believe we should recruit like a Top 6 team, that's fine. But I think of IU as Blue Blood. Maybe you don't.
Greatest coaching is critical. A great system or style of play is critical. Players must fit the coach and the system, and each other. Chemistry of the team is critical. There is one champ each year. Recruiting is simply not as critical as you assert. If it was, Cal would win every year. Loyola, South Carolina, George Mason, Butler, Michigan, heck even Villanova. They don't have as many top guys. No one argues that talent doesn't matter, but simply unloading talent each year doesn't seem to get the job done. Clearly.