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recruiting is everything by irishrock
I'm Captain obvious here, but Holtz would not have achieved what he did with classes ranked 15th. The fact that Charlie Weis and Gerry Faust couldn't build sustainable success at Notre Dame with the highly acclaimed recruiting classes says a lot about each one's coaching acument (or lack of it)
That said, I do not believe Kelly would win a national championship even if he had four straight #1 classes. He'd find a way to %&$# it up in the playoffs...or to Stanford on the road.
Saban...really good coach at Michigan State but never a national championship threat. He goes to LSU with much better talent and wins...goes to the NFL where parity reigns and quit to get back to college. He's a helluva coach...but again, he'd be nowhere near the pinnacle if he didn't recruit 365 days per year.