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Doyel: Brian Kelly Is Sticking It To A Waffling Recruit

By Gregg Doyel-
CBSSports.com

The system is broken, and not by accident. It's broken on purpose. The system allows coaches like Brian Kelly to switch schools as they please -- and for more money -- but players who want to switch schools are at the mercy of those same coaches. Because the system sucks.

But Notre Dame doesn't have to follow the system. Notre Dame, leader that it considers itself among institutions of higher learning, could refuse to follow along. It could allow the system to work for an 18-year-old high school senior, but it won't. Notre Dame is playing hard ball with five-star recruit Eddie Vanderdoes,

So it's not just the system that sucks. For playing along with the system, Notre Dame sucks too.

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