[Hulk01]

Some folks remember that as we were landing our stellar 2012 class--including our entire current OL--Notre Dame had a good class.  (Scout ranked our class #7, and Notre Dame’s 16th

But most of the elite recruits from that class are gone.
5* CB Tee Shepard transferred before his first spring practice at ND, and was attending JC at last report.
5* QB Gunner Kiel transferred to Cincinnati in 2013.
4* WR Justin Ferguson transferred to Western Michigan.
4* WR Devonte Neal transferred back home to Arizona in 2013.
4* RB William Mahone was arrested in June and kicked off the team (and school, I think)
4* CB Keivare Russell was declared ineligible this fall.

That has left them with just three four or five star player plus eight other recruits from that class, assuming all those lower-rated players still are on the tea,  And their 2011 class lost elite DE Aaron Lynch and 4 star OL Jordan Prestwood to Arizona Western Community College.  And they lost Eddie Vanderdoes, the 5* star DE in the following class, to a transfer to UCLA.

They recruit well, to be sure.  But how you can keep those kids down on the campus, after they've seen South Bend? 

[Hulk01]

Some folks remember that as we were landing our stellar 2012 class--including our entire current OL--Notre Dame had a good class.  (Scout ranked our class #7, and Notre Dame’s 16th

But most of the elite recruits from that class are gone.
5* CB Tee Shepard transferred before his first spring practice at ND, and was attending JC at last report.
5* QB Gunner Kiel transferred to Cincinnati in 2013.
4* WR Justin Ferguson transferred to Western Michigan.
4* WR Devonte Neal transferred back home to Arizona in 2013.
4* RB William Mahone was arrested in June and kicked off the team (and school, I think)
4* CB Keivare Russell was declared ineligible this fall.

That has left them with just three four or five star player plus eight other recruits from that class, assuming all those lower-rated players still are on the tea,  And their 2011 class lost elite DE Aaron Lynch and 4 star OL Jordan Prestwood to Arizona Western Community College.  And they lost Eddie Vanderdoes, the 5* star DE in the following class, to a transfer to UCLA.

They recruit well, to be sure.  But how you can keep those kids down on the campus, after they've seen South Bend?