The fact of the matter is that Duke is always going to be playing week to week, year by year. The academic standards don't lend themselves to recruiting high end prospects. I would love to get the occasional top prospect star like Stanford does, but they are in a unique situation being in California.
Duke will probably never out-talent other ACC teams, even in our own division. Having Cutcliffe is a real blessing because we have good coaching and have also raised our recruiting game over the last decade big time. I just think Duke has a ceiling when it comes to getting elite prospects.
I do wish that recruits would take notice, particularly big time Southern recruits, of that first half against Alabama. They beat us bad in the second half but our D kept is in it for a half at least. We made them adjust. That's a sign of good coaching.
