This is not a vent board or any other kind of therapy. Before you hit the POST button, ask yourself if your contribution will add to the level of discussion going on.

Important notes on articles:

• Please do not copy entire articles into your post; rather, provide links to them.. We are now links-only for ALL Internet publications. If only a small portion of the article pertains to your post, Fair Use allows you to copy those one or two paragraphs, provided you cite the author's name and the publication for which he writes. Otherwise, put a link in the HTTP Link box.
• Even if you're copying a reference to an article, provide a link to the page from which the article came. We're trying to cut down on duplicate topics, and the posting process will check the link to your article to see if it's already being discussed on this board. At the very least, you'll save yourself some grief on the boards.
• If your first reaction after reading the article you're going to share is the author is uninformed / stupid / a jerk / all of the above, it's not worth sharing with anyone. Not every article needs to be discussed. The more the hair-pulling articles are discussed (e.g. ESPN Page 2), the more the authors will write hair-pulling articles.

Post being replied to

Have you considered any of the complexities of this? by pmcdnd96

The fact that Vandy, Stanford, and Northwestern have offered those kids is only relevant to ND in that it eliminates the BS excuse that we don't pursue top talent because they can't qualify for admission at Notre Dame.

Those teams can offer top athletes until the cows come home because they're so unlikely to get them. If Northwestern somehow lands the number 10 player in the country, they will find a way to make room for him, even if it means yanking a scholarship from somebody else who wanted to commit. They have landed two players in the top 300 from the past four recruiting classes...one if we move that to "top 295". (Stanford has averaged 4 top-300 a year for the past 4 years and I'm not going to bother looking up Vandy.) As underwhelming as our recruiting performance has been, we land enough upper-tier talent that we have to at least ask the question "what if every kid we offer accepts?" Those schools don't.

This is not to say that we do an adequate job recruiting top players, I just don't think that the offers of much weaker football programs offers much of a barometer.