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Recruiting will always be harder at ND by HTownND

We're in Northern Indiana, and it sometimes smells like stale beer when the wind blows just right. You don't see the sun for large swaths of the winter.

We expect you to go to class, even if it's just American Studies.

The campus is not diverse


But you know what, that's always been the case. Always. Yet other coaches have managed to get it done, because they could sell kicking people's asses, excellent coaching and development and getting to the NFL.

If Charlie Weis can sign (prepare the Brian Hardin logic) three straight top 6 classes, there is no excuse for any fucking Notre Dame coach not to recruit well.

That Brian Kelly, in a decade of coaching at ND, has signed exactly one top 6 class, in 2013, following a season where we played for a title because of recruits signed by Weis is fucking tragic.

His recruiting in the past 10 years has not been better than Weis or Davie, it's been on par with those guys. Davie was consistently a 15 to 10 type of recruiter with the occasional splash. Even BK 2.0 isn't getting it done with recruiting.

But here we are, and I'm sure people will roll out the excuses for him, like they always do. The reality is, he's simply not good enough, and never will be. He doesn't suck which is cool if that's what you're going for. But if you want championship football, there isn't a single metric anywhere on the planet that suggests he'll ever win a title at ND, ever. He's not capable of it. Full Stop.


Table Source 247 Composite Rankings (sorry I forgot the class we just signed at 17, which is about what we can expect from BK 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 or whatever iteration you want to label it)





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Composite Rank Year Coach(es)
16 2019 Kelly
10 2018 Kelly
10 2017 Kelly
15 2016 Kelly
13 2015 Kelly
11 2014 Kelly
5 2013 Kelly
17 2012 Kelly
9 2011 Kelly/Weis
15 2010 Weis
15 2009 Weis
2 2008 Weis
6 2007 Weis
5 2006 Weis
39 2005 Weis/Willingham
35 2004 Willingham
7 2003 Willingham
12 2002 Davie/Willingham
12 2001 Davie