Notre Dame football has built in limitations for 5-star recruiting, says pundit

There’s been a lot of digital ink spilled on the subject of Notre Dame football’s struggles landing a top wide receiver recruit this cycle. Many people have offered many theories, including the idea that new wide receiver coach Mike Brown might simply be in over his head.

However, one analyst believes it’s not a matter of Brown doing something wrong. Or really, the Fighting Irish doing something wrong.

Dan Wetzel believes the struggles Notre Dame football is seeing are just the way things are, when you’re Notre Dame. The Yahoo! Sports analyst believes that the Irish are never going to land the 5-star prospects that a program like LSU can get.

Notre Dame football has some built in limitations for 5-star recruiting

“For Notre Dame with Derek Meadows, Notre Dame only has so many cracks at a true five-star guy,” Wetzel said on the latest edition of his podcast. “Your deal with five stars you're recruiting against the same schools right so it's going to be Alabama it's going to be Georgia it's going to be LSU it's going to be Ohio State it's going to be maybe USC.” 

“Generally Notre Dame's in on like two or three guys; that's it a year,” he continued.”Notre Dame there's only so many of those guys they can get in or whatever.”

Pundit has a point about Fighting Irish

While fans in and around South Bend aren’t happy when they hear comments like that, Wetzel has a point. The first part of the point is that these 5-stars are overwhelmingly coming from SEC areas of the country.

There’s also the fact that the Notre Dame football program has higher admission standards than those SEC schools. Brian Kelly knew that. It’s why he went to LSU in the first place. And this year, he’s got three 5-star commits.