While Fran Belibi is quite a story - relatively new to the game, can dunk, parents are doctors -- I'm not all that certain it impacts the Irish that much.
She's a 6'1" athlete and unless the Irish were to tweak their offensive system, I think her abilities were not an easy fit in terms of the ND offensive system.

If ND goes after an athletic forward, always thought Laeticia Amihere was the key. And many people are not even that sure of that, given her knee injuries.

For some reason, I think ND is looking at Amihere but perhaps even more so at Aliyah Boston as a low-post addition to Mik Vaughn. Sydnee Roby may be a back-up option there, but the news on Gusters in 2020 makes me think MM is going hard after top-line talent for the 2019...Boston, Amihere and/or Jones. If not them, she'll look to make those up in 2020 with a Gusters, Marshall, Watson, etc.

Stay tuned.

BTW, where's the "faith" in Stanford that is mentioned in the article, outside of the Belibi belief in the Hippocratic tie-ins?

Notre Dame has a reputation for being a bastion for liberal Catholicism.
Many families are turned off by the actions of Father Jenkins and the liberalism of the faculty. FB's decision makes sense in light the kind of Catholicism Notre Dame offers.
Don't shoot the messenger, I am just reflecting what parents of prospective students have told me and reading the information from the Sycamore Trust group.
It is better now than it was in the past when it was an unwritten law,
"no orthodox Catholics theologians allowed"

...that my casual aside about how "faith" factored into a decision between one Roman Catholic School and three distinctly non-sectarian schools can be offered up as a decision on the purported leanings of the Notre Dame administration and faculty. Seems a bit of a stretch.

You have your points of view (as I have mine), but I don't think McGraw's Bench is the proper venue to to address this subject. I see a political board on ND Nation here but not a religious or institutional direction board....those would be the proper areas to bring up such discussions.

p.s. I will say one thing: having just spent four days on campus talking to and listening to faculty and students, and hearing statements from salutatorians, valedictorians, honored speakers (whom ND administration chooses), I was quite proud of the meshing of faith and the educational pursuit of the individual students and collective university body.

My guess is you and I would have an interesting take on the Land o' Lakes declaration. But not on this particular board....

While discussing philosophy and religion is a great joy in my life, nothing could be less appropriate here. (There must be a board rule against it.)

Perhaps she prefers the disgusting and blasphemous actions of the Stanford band and tree.

I'm not taking this out on the recruit, but any insinuation that ND takes a spiritual backseat to Stanford is badly misguided.

and I completely agree that Stanford is certainly one of the most anti-religious - mostly anti-Christian/Catholic - schools in the country. Any student going there will be ridiculed by professors and fellow students for expressing any Christian, especially Catholic, belief in God.