Agree to disagree a little bit here. He traditionally lands at least 1 top 100 guy per cycle. For me, it just semantics when it's a top 50 vs. top 100 or whatever metric you want to have it be. You also don't find many guys like Jeffress with the basketball/academic profile as strong as his. Does that mean ND lands him? Absolutely not. It might even be harder to land him with him reclassifying. Less time to build a relationship. Plus, to be fair to his ranking, 247 sports has not updated his profile to 2020 yet while Rivals has. He is number 75 in the Rivals top 100 for the 2020 class.
Going back to back to 2003, these are guys that are right around that top 100 or better. A few of the guys that were a tad over were still heavily recruited players. My main point here is a profile fit is a profile fit. I don't care if the guy is ranked 50 or 120 cuz in reality I don't see a huge difference - especially in Brey's system. My biggest thing is I don't believe all of these guys he brings in are really that below the radar. Top 150 HS basketball recruits are still very good and highly recruited. He doesn't do a good job at landing the one and dones, that is essentially it.
2003: Falls
2004: Kurz
2005: Zeller, Ayers, McAlarney
2006: Harangody, Jackson
2010: Grant, Atkins
2011: Connaughton
2012: Biedscheid, Auguste
2013: Jackson, Beachem, Vasturia
2014: Geben, Colson
2015: Ryan, Pflueger
2016: Gibbs, Mooney
2017: Harvey
2018: Laszewski, Carmody, Hubb, Goodwin, Ryan (if you want to count him now)
I do think we are closer to agreeing than are discussion portrays though.
FWIW, ND had an assistant coach in to see him last night