Typical ND recruiting cycle comes to end (Final 2025 Class Ranking Finishes 12th)

[chaseball]

It's like the operations office at Notre Dame goes on vacation sometime in September right around the time the season starts and while other programs are making their best offers to prospects on the recruiting trail, grinding down the stretch for the best players in the country, flipping elite prospects from top programs in the country, it's dead silence at Notre Dame on the recruiting front.

It's cool that Ty Black earned his fifth star in the final rankings update at 247 and is now an official composite 5-star breaking NDs streak of going years without a single 5-star commit in the 247 composite.

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[chaseball]

This going on vacation when the season starts on the rec trail seems to be a hang over effect from the Brian Kelly era. His classes too started off white hot at ND only to slide when the season started and the same thing is happening now at LSU under Brian Kelly.

This is something the ND program DESPERATELY needs to graduate from. Recruiting is a 24/7 job on the CURRENT CLASS all the way through the final day of national signing day.

 

[chaseball]

Also, just another year forward of status quo talent level extracted from the recruiting trail (perpetuating NDs standing as a program playing 2nd fiddle to the new era of modern powers in college football)

new tier 1 recruiting juggernauts: Texas, Oregon, OSU, Bama, Georgia
new tier 1 teams that ND is likely going to have no chance against in the playoff going forward: Texas, Oregon, OSU, Bama, Georgia

 

[BGI User 756]

Hey how about Underwood turning down $10M to stay at LSU..

 

[BGI User 756]

Also, just another year forward of status quo talent level extracted from the recruiting trail (perpetuating NDs standing as a program playing 2nd fiddle to the new era of modern powers in college football)

new tier 1 recruiting juggernauts: Texas, Oregon, OSU, Bama, Georgia
new tier 1 teams that ND is likely going to have no chance against in the playoff going forward: Texas, Oregon, OSU, Bama, Georgia

And yet ND went further than all but OSU

 

[chaseball]

And yet ND went further than all but OSU

They went further in the playoff yes, but their overall ranking in F+ is #4 (meaning the 3 teams ahead of them would likely beat them in a head to head match up) and the #1 team (OSU) is still just way too far out ahead of them for any realistic chance to beat them

How do you close this production gap? You recruit rarer talent (better talent, higher ranked talent) thus increasing the odds of your program out-producing their competitors during the season/playoff and ultimately increasing their odds of beating their competitors in the season/playoff in head to head games.