Given the circumstances, Notre Dame’s recruiting class of 2020 could not have turned out better. Those circumstances extended past the usual Irish listing of admissions standards, academics and location. They reached to a key coaching change, an absolute demand to over-recruit cornerbacks and overall roster restrictions keeping the class to a tidy 18 commits.
Despite all those factors, the Irish pulled in the No. 15 class in the country, per rivals.com. That may not seem like much, but those rankings are skewed by a small class that includes both a long snapper and an abundance of cornerbacks high on raw talent but low on recruiting praise.