Spoke to someone today who backed up what you just posted. But he also pointed out that Anderson, because he doesn't cheat (which is great), sometimes resorts to over promising to recruits and letting parents / guardians have too much influence on playing time. Which led to disorganization and lack of cohesion among players in later years. The guy I spoke with said this year's team, for example, was loaded and should have been a sweet 16 team. Guess we will see.
Not to start anything, but that information he shared to you about Anderson over promising is incorrect. It's actually the complete opposite, CMA's whole recruiting pitch is about family and telling guys not to worry about being a starter because he has 8-10 guys that he considers his starters and if you work hard you'll play. When the season starts and you hear reporters ask about who the starters will be and ask who's going to play the most minutes, you guys will hear him say he has 8-10 starters so much it will start to annoy you a little bit. He doesn't show favoritism at all.
One Arkansas kid, Anton Beard, who was highly recruited and originally committed to Mizzou did an interview and they asked what was some of the things that changed his mind and made him want to come to Arkansas, and he said the fact that Coach Anderson didn't sugarcoat anything and just tell him what he wanted to hear, he told him he expects him to come in and work hard and earn everything. And Anton liked that because he said he didn't want any fake promises.
It's also kinda odd you were told that, because that's one of the biggest complaints some Hog fans had about Anderson's recruiting style, I can't tell you how many threads I've read over the years with people criticizing Anderson for not making all the promises in the world to highly rated recruits to get them here. For example many Hog fans though he should have made Malik Monk's brother an assistant or offered him a job on the staff to get him here, CMA did not do that, he's not going to do stuff like that just to land a recruit. He's also not going to beg a kid to stay or play them because of anything their parents say, CMA is going to do things his way, if the parents or kid doesn't like it, he'll help them find another school.
And last thing, I don't know who told that guy he had a sweet 16 team this year. It was the 2nd youngest team in the nation, and started 2 freshman and 3 sophomores, we were picked to finish 10th in our conference and not make a post season. We ended up finishing 9th and making the NIT and finishing better than pre-season predictions. It was actually a pretty good coaching job, considering we lost our McDonald-All American recruit to some shady business, and one of our top recruits from the prior year, who was suppose to be cleared this season, ended up still not getting medically cleared to play.