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Notre Dame Football Recruiting Slowdown: Reasons vs. Excuses

The beautiful thing about college football recruiting is it never stops. For anything. Global pandemic? Fiddlesticks. The show goes on.

The bad thing about college football recruiting is it never stops. For anything. And for some schools, like for instance Notre Dame, some sort of pause button might have been useful. But, that’s not how recruiting works, and there are no free rides for anyone.

Notre Dame football recruiting post-COVID-19 can best be described as a slog. They’ve lost out on a number of their top prospects, their top-rated receiver (Deion Colzie) decommitted, and the outlook at running back that once looked so promising is now as foggy as ever.