So Kugler's Staff searched the country and brought in kids for Official Visits from 9 different states and you are questioning if they are lazy?
This post is on the same level as the guy who said that we need to e-mail Tim Floyd and instruct him to have Hooper Vint go out and "dominate" the basketball game. Apparently, it's just that easy? There are some people in this thread who just don't get it and they don't see the big picture. Kugler has a plan, he stated this plan from the beginning, he has continued to stick to every detail of his plan, his plan is working with a Winning Season, Bowl Game and a Top 50 Defense.
Oh and BTW, UTEP only lost 2 Verbal Commits to other schools during this past Recruiting Class, who were those 2 Recruits? They were both kids who committed to UTEP until an East Texas Program, closer to their home's, gave them an offer. Kugler and his Staff do recruit east Texas, but so does everybody else, and history has proven that it is almost impossible to get enough kids from east Texas to come out to El Paso and fully supply/sustain our entire Program. Therefore we also have to look/recruit elsewhere as well, which is exactly what Kugler has done.
Finally, in the 9 year Mike Price era, UTEP recruited a ton of players out of the Houston area. In fact, UTEP basically isolated its recruiting to only Texas and California during that time. So you saw this theory in action for 9 years and how did it work? Mike Price never had a season in his 9 years here where he won more games in a season against D1 teams(7 wins) than what Kugler has done in just 2 years. People forget that in Mike Price's only 2 winning seasons, that he only won 7 games in each of those years against D1 teams(we had an additional win against a 1AA team in each of those 2 years, which got us up to the 8 wins).