Here's a bit more of it

Guys,” Smart said before a brief pause. “If you don’t recruit, there’s no coach out there who can out-coach recruiting. I don’t care who you are. The best coach to ever (coach) the game better be a good recruiter because no coaching is going to out-coach players. Anyone will tell you our defense is good because we’ve got good players.

I think that shitty coaching can make a talented team play like crap, but I agree with smart, you cant take a bunch of average players and turn them into a great team.