I disagree with all of this, but wanted to expand on the highlighted part of this post.
Notre Dame doesn't need 1 five star, or 2 five stars, or 3 five stars, or whatever arbitrary number you want to use as the measuring stick.
Only 1 team wins a national title at the end of the year.
That means the other 130+ teams in college football are the measuring stick.
Take the best recruited teams in the country any given year AND THAT IS THE MEASURING STICK!!! WE NEED TO RECRUIT **** AT LEAST **** AS WELL AS THOSE TEAMS. Alabama has five 5-stars this cycle so far (as an example).
In order to position yourself to contend for a national title, you have to recruit AT LEAST as well as EVERY OTHER TEAM IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL (including all the top dogs in the SEC and BIG10) in order to have ANY realistic shot of winning a national title.
Right now there are a handful of teams (a revolving door of about 5-7 teams since the start of the 21st century) that recruit/bring in so much more talent than ND that their 2nd and 3rd teams are more talented than NDs 1st and 2nd teams.
Essentially, ND has been waving a white flag before the season even gets started for about 15 years running now. And 2024 & 2025 (given yet another disappointing recruiting cycle) is more of the same at least another 1-2 years into the future.
what is ND doing to adjust ? anything at all ?
SMH