Sherri's recruiting difficulties rest in her recruiting profile. Very few high national recruits meet that profile and it then becomes a numbers game wherein her success ratio has to be too high to compete with Baylor or Texas with regards to the number of top kids signed.
Also have if from a very reliable source that she restricts the number of offers she extended based on the number of scholarships she has. If she needs a point guard she is not going to offer three prospects and take the first one. She will focus on the first one and often beleft with no good option B when she misses on her.
It has been a decade back but Sherri stated recruiting wasn't her strength. Chelsea Dungee, Nancy Mulkey and Ana Llanusa are steps in the right direction but she needs more of them, at least a couple a year from the top 30 kids in the country, to stay on par with Baylor and Texas not to mention Notre Dame, Stanford, Maryland, South Carolina, Tennessee and UConn.
Tough to consistently be a top ten program without consistently signing top ten recruiting classes. You win with the Janes and the Jills more so than with anything else. And Sherri is not getting enough of them.