Of course some players are gonna go elsewhere regardless of how hard a coach works to get them to said school. Saban doesn't get everyone he wants every year. No one does.
It doesn't sound like our coaches did anything "wrong" here (although that's impossible to know as an outsider), but the results are still the bottom line. It's not necessarily fair, but that's the profession they signed up for and they're very well compensated to withstand the criticism, second guessing, etc., that comes with it.
Of course people can accept that a recruit likes School X more than NU for any number of reasons. It's the coaches job to make the recruit like NU more. They weren't able to do so with Jordan and maybe it was an impossible ask in this case, but of course fans are still going to feel disappointment and question whether they could have done something different or better.
The disappointment is compounded by the fact that he's only five hours away, had family pulling for NU and it was down to only two schools, one of which is further away. Most NU fans also seem to think we should win recruiting battles against TCU, so even more disappointment.
I get what you're saying, but I could easily turn the question around: are you really that surprised NU fans are reacting negatively to the news? Follow recruiting for any length of time and this sort of thing is just par for the course. I wouldn't even say this a particularly bad reaction compared to the blue chippers we've missed on.
