I am ashamed to admit that I have forgotten more about CFB recruiting than you will ever know.
Relationships, you say? What you meant to say was relationships with high school coaches, 7 on 7 coaches and organizers, etc. Do you really think Warren Sapp is tied into the high school coaching network? Do you really think he is prepared to make the sacrifices to go do the dirty work of recruiting? There is no indication that Deon is.
Please regale us with Sapp being a beast high school recruiter. All the high school games he goes to, and the visits to hundreds of high schools over the years. The high school association rubber chicken dinners he has attended to develop those relationships. Throw in how he has been a beast sitting in living rooms across the country and in South Florida relating to momma and grandma about how Colorado, some school he has no relationship (there's that word again) to, that is 1800 miles away, and where momma and grandma can't go and see their boy play, is the perfect destination for their son to play for a narcissistic coach who has receipts and Gucci.
Unfortunately, I know shit - way too much shit about recruiting in CFB. The idea that Warren Sapp will all the sudden be this recruiting machine is absurd.