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He's been asked about it in a roundabout way by Jvan

Local media won't directly challenge him on it, but here's the gist of what he said a year ago. The complete article is linked.

“I do (think top-five classes are possible) now," Kelly said when asked about Notre Dame's ceiling on the recruiting trail. "I've changed. We're going to change the way we do some things that I think will allow us to do that."

Here's another excerpt from a different article in the same time period:

"Fair or not, the knock on Kelly as a recruiter has been detachment, an unwillingness to get his hands dirty." The link to this article is:

https://notredame.rivals.com/news/is-brian-kelly-s-recruiting-revamp-rooting-for-notre-dame-football-

I won't get into what I know from private discussions, especially as it pertains to individual recruits Kelly lost, but it's damning.