Friendly reminder: 12th ranked class with no 5 stars yet again in 2025 - Where's the evidence of a new level of performance going forward?
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This is why I have stopped responding to his drivel. He's either mentally challenged, or ignorant of the facts.
The football factories also have a higher acceptance rate. Ohio State has a 52.7% acceptance rate, and 88% of their full-time students take 6 years to graduate.
Notre Dame has a 16.5% acceptance rate and 90% of their full time students graduate in 4 years.
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So we are going back to 2000?
Bama with DuBose and Franchione and Shula? And UGA was 17 seasons away from losing less than 3 games in consecutive years?
Lol, you try too hard and it’s enjoyable to continually expose you
But...but...but....I read somewhere on here that the academic focus/differences are just an excuse to explain why ND won't sign all the 5-star Rivals players...who should I believe?
(for patirish: I'm being sarcastic)
While I agree in part, I ultimately think it’s much simpler than that: he’s just starved for attention.
What brand are you referring to? I think marketing the school in its totality is the best recruiting approach...great athletics, great academics, great alumni connections (4 for 40)...
My point about the mission was directed at the poster that seems to think that all Notre Dame has to do is throw money around like tOSU...but it will not do that because it does not function as a semi-pro sports franchise.
The evidence is self evident
Notre Dame played in the finals of the college football championship, beating three (3) top 10 teams, despite having an unprecedented number of key injuries
As somebody who has become something of an LSU fan, after being a cloistered ND fan all these years, I can tell you that the old stereotypes still definitely hold true. And ND has to be selective about who they take into their program. For all the same reasons. And nothing has significantly changed in that regard. And top prospects don't mainly come from middle-class families and thus are mainly all suitable enough ND material. I would imagine that's simply not true.
We have a brand new AD!!! We will see what changes he makes. I doubt that he will advertise how much NIL $ is going to be spent on football, basketball, or any of the other sports. We need patience to see what he does.
He's been employed for a year and there's definitely been some changes for the better, but still waiting for those improvements to make there way to the talent acquisition side of the organization.
We can't beat teams on the football field that are annihilating us on the recruiting trail which makes it nearly impossible to win a national title without major improvement to this part of the organization.
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This is garbage, I watched Ryan Day tell Kirk Herbstriet that OSU was the healthiest they’ve been all season when they were getting ready to play Oregon in the 2nd round.
Of the final four teams, none were decimated like ND by injuries, not even close.
I’ve tried to be nice to you man, even defended you being able to have whatever opinion you want without being attacked mercilessly, but it’s completely clear that you aren’t a ND fan. There is no way you can see what they did and overcame this season and trash every single thing they do.
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I can agree and also disagree with this. ND will NEVER load up on five star talent, like OSU had this year. Its never going to happen. I hate to say it this way, but a lot of these 5 star athletes don't want to take the class load involved at ND just to play football for a couple years before bolting for the NFL. IF we can carry 5 or 6 five stars each year, I think that is outstanding and about as good as we'll get.
That said, the evidence of ND's needle moving up is simple. We WON 3 playoff games, two of which were against perennial SEC and Big10 powers. We also hung with an Ohio State juggernaut that lets be completely honest here, no one was going to beat in the post season. A few breaks in that game and it would have been a nail biter. We also saw a team that flat out played their butts off and willed themselves to wins. This year, this team had that old "holtz era" feel to it, where you just always had the feeling a big play was about to happen and we'd pull out the W. That Luck of the Irish that used to be common place with the old Holtz teams.
We did all while being decimated with injuries in the playoffs. That to me spoke volumes for our depth this year and hopefully moving forward. We never had the luxury of plugging someone in without significant drop off like we had this year. MF is also still learning a bit on the job at times but man... its good to be Irish right now IMO.
That said, the evidence of ND's needle moving up is simple. We WON 3 playoff games, two of which were against perennial SEC and Big10 powers. We also hung with an Ohio State juggernaut that lets be completely honest here, no one was going to beat in the post season. A few breaks in that game and it would have been a nail biter. We also saw a team that flat out played their butts off and willed themselves to wins. This year, this team had that old "holtz era" feel to it, where you just always had the feeling a big play was about to happen and we'd pull out the W. That Luck of the Irish that used to be common place with the old Holtz teams.
We did all while being decimated with injuries in the playoffs. That to me spoke volumes for our depth this year and hopefully moving forward. We never had the luxury of plugging someone in without significant drop off like we had this year. MF is also still learning a bit on the job at times but man... its good to be Irish right now IMO.
Wow that’s in the true spirit of Notre Dame. What a wonderful human being you are. Prayers to your soul
Good class. Not great. Would like to see us get back to having classes like the first 2. Those were special and impactful on this season.
Rumor is 2026 could be elite.
Rumor is 2026 could be elite.
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