Agreed about the recruiting, including what you said in a later post.
Those that think ND is going downhill because of academic standards hurting their recruiting are misinformed or just don't get it. They have had top recruiting classes for years and esp under Charlie. Heck the excuse we heard before was that once he gets his guys in, they will win instead of relying on Willingham's recruits...well the story I read said that Charlie and ND did better with the previous recruits.
Either way, they have the clout to recruit because they can always pull out the trump card to any recruit by saying...you are guaranteed to be on TV every weekend as we are the only team with a national channel dedicated to covering all of our games. On a side note, I hate that because there have been many saturdays when there are much better games on but we are stuck knowing that ND is playing some scrub team nobody cares about.
But that is another story.:laugh1: