or Bama's recruiting.
All you have to do is look at the cars Bama and O$U players drive. Their living arrangements. The fact that none of them ever gets suspended for academics.
Those "schools" (I use that term loosely) are running semi-pro football operations and paying huge $ for the talent they get. Not saying all kids that choose those schools are doing it for financial reasons. But ND is not going to compete with what they offer the NFL or bust kids.
Be happy and root for the kids that choose ND. You'll drive yourself mad trying to compare ND to those entities.