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Ability to offer a recruit is one thing by LifetimeIrishInTN

Food for thought that I get regularly from a professor friend at Vanderbilt who previously worked at Michigan State and Ohio State. He has told me for several years that it is not the ability to offer a recruit that matters, it is the interest level of the recruit to do the academic work required at a school like ND. From his experience he believes most recruits are not interested, increasingly so with each passing year.

As a result, while they can be theoretically be recruited / offered / accepted, they generally are not interested in committing due to the academic workload involved.

We can certainly recruit better, but the pool is not realistically close to those who can be offered.

Take it for what it's worth. He's been telling me this for years. Nothing new, just means we have to work harder than we are, be better at identifying / evaluating / closing the deal with those who are interested in the academic work.