When recruits think of tradition-rich programs, do they think of the Irish?
Texas-bound WR DEMARCO COBBS, the No. 9 player in the SN 100, says: “It’s kind of hard for a recruit to look back 20 years at how Notre Dame used to be and try to imagine bringing that tradition back. I think that’s why it’s hard for Notre Dame to get all the big-time recruits to go there. Now, if they were on top every year, that’d be a different story because they have a name as a school. I was looking at something on the Internet; I was looking at the time Lou Holtz was there. Kids, they were loving to go play for him for some reason, but it seemed like as soon as he retired, it went downhill.