It is no different than when the top-ranked Minnesota high school football player chooses to go elsewhere. Where it hurts is when they signed with a Big Ten rival school.
Here is where the top-rated MN HS player signed to play college football in the last ten recruiting classes:
2023 - Jaxon Howard, Edge, 6-4, 245 0.9464, LSU
2022 - Lucas Heyer, OT, 6-5, 307, 0.9010, Stanford
2021 - Riley Mahlman, OT, 6-7, 290, 0.9379, Wisconsin
2020 - Kaden Johnson, LB, 6-2, 235, 0.9261, Wisconsin
2019 - Quinn Carroll, OT, 6-6, 295, 0.9471, Notre Dame, Transferred to Minnesota
2018 - David Alston, LB, 6-4.5, 225, 0.8721 Nebraska, Transferred to Montana State
2017 - Blaise Andries, IOL, 6-6, 335, 0.8856, Minnesota, Miami Dolphins
2016 - Carter Coughlin, Edge, 6-4, 245, 0.9565, Minnesota, New York Giants
2015 - Jason Cornell, DL, 6-3, 265, 0.9562, Ohio State, Detroit Lions
2014 - JC Hassenauer, IOL, 602, 295, 0.9294, Alabama, Pittsburg Steelers