How many other coaches have even been close at schools that give a damn about recruiting players who at least have a chance of graduating? Sure, you have players who do care at Ohio State, Clemson, Oklahoma, LSU, Georgia. But lets get real, all those schools and a lot more will find ways to get "difference makers" to come in for a couple years even though a lot of them couldn't spell "cat" if you spotted them the C and A. At least ND tries, although not always sucessfully.
Could Urban Meyer have won at ND back in the day he manipulated those morons White & Jenkins and then went to Florida? No, and he knew that. Holtz told him that, told him to go to Florida. At least today, ND is closer to being a place where a Championship is possible than at any time in the last 25 years. Can they do better than Kelly with their next hire? Quite probably.