This is a new era. There is NO WAY we won’t be in the playoff conversation every year if we repeat this in 2024. Our assistant coaches are WAY too good. Our head coach is WAY too hard of a worker not to get on the field success. ND fans need to accept that we are shopping down a different isle now. I expect this class to finish #2 overall. 2024 will be similar. Combine that with #6 (likely our worst class in the coming years) in 2022 and this group will be competing with Bama. By competing I mean beating them. I think most ND fans are waiting for something bad to happen because that’s what always occurred under BK. It just isn’t happening. This recruiting train is about to get even more absurd. Just wait. We are back to early 90’s level recruiting as long as MF is at ND.
We should finish with the best DL class as well as the best OL class in the country in 2023 and land the nations best QB, Dante Moore (Yes, I think he’s better than Manning). We likely land 3 more elite WRs too, including another one from Texas. It’s about to heat up even more this summer. I don’t think many ND fans fully appreciate what this class is going to be.