They're not. I've read that teams like Alabama, OSU, Clemson, Georgia are not throwing NIL money at HS recruits instead telling them that the money will there when they prove themselves using the mega bucks that Bryce Young and CJ Stroud are pulling in and OSU and Alabama have the most NFL players which they're also using. Wasn't the massive Texas A&M money to recruits what Saban was complaining about?
The reason OSU is getting almost every WR they're going after is real simple - their WR coach Brian Hartline who is still in his mid 30s and has retained his NFL receiver skills. He even went head to head with this year's 1st rounders - Chris Olave and Garrett Wilson - and was every bit as good as them which blows the kids away.
Brandon Inniss backed this up yesterday when he said that Hartline was the reason he chose OSU and then said (about Hartline) - “He doesn’t only tell us how he developed his receivers, but he shows us,” Inniss said. “He shows us how.”
It's probably a bad sign if a guy who had 344 catches for 4,766 yards and 14 touchdowns over 6 years in the NFL is going head to head with 1st round picks and is every bit as good as them.
The putting guys in the league argument is nonsense, who has hartline developed? Wilson was the 32nd overall recruit on rivals. Smith-Njigba was the 20th overall recruit on rivals. Olave was a three star. Places like Ohio State put guys in the league because of how much elite talent they get. That talent would go to the league no matter where they went, Ohio State has little to do with developing players in my opinion.