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Kelly has always been a lazy recruiter by Jvan

He doesn't engage in the process or spend the time on it the way the elite, successful coaches do. That mindset permeates through the staff, and the boss (Swarbrick) enables it. As long as people swallow the false excuse that elite recruits are mostly unavailable to ND, they'll get away with it.

The best coaches have a track record of on-field success they can show recruits. This has kept a pipeline going for the Nick Sabans of the world, but Saban still works harder at recruiting every year than most of his peers.

Charlie Weis was the best recruiter among our last four ND coaches (excluding O'Leary) but could not sustain it because his teams were weak. I suspect Kelly would still get outcoached by Saban, Swinney and Day even with equal talent, but we'll never find out.