Nope. Too highly ranked. Notre Dame never gets top guys and that may be by design. Cool for them if he went, though. McGary's at Brewster to boost his academics, I thought? Which makes him a harder sell to Notre Dame.
You're kidding, right?
Which part? Notre Dame partisans often complain about the admissions standards to the school as hindering their recruiting - moreso in football, where they would LOVE to dominate once more.
Notre Dame hasn't gotten a highly ranked player/ McDAA level player since Chris Thomas (I think - I welcome any corrections) and they do a great job of targeting guys who fit their system and grow with the system. I think they were on the final Zeller and Plumlee but never got close. I don't see Mike Brey suddenly pulling Mitch McGary back to Indiana.
Here's a list of the top 5 HS football players in the country.
endee has offered all 5.
Think they're all better students than McGarry?
http://recruiting.scout.com/
I don't want to get into an argument when we're talking about McGary (why is everyone tossing in an extra "r"?) that takes us off topic. But let me address your issues.
I don't know if Notre Dame has gotten better at football recruiting. But in Charlie Weis'/ Ty Willingham's days and previous to that, there was concern that the academic standards hurt recruiting. There are top players who can meet the Irish's academic admission requirements and can remain in school, but it's a struggle. Read more here:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/andy_staples/11/25/notre.dame/ Here's a quote:
Notre Dame officials made a critical choice a few years ago. They could lower their academic standards to allow in better athletes so alumni could take pride in their football team, or they could keep those standards high so alumni could take pride in their university.
By placing the school's primary mission above athletic success, they chose correctly. Unfortunately, Notre Dame fans must accept the consequences.That's in football, with their deep history. That issue was at the heart of Paul Hornung's
comments in 2004. and it applies to basketball as well, which is a logical assumption. For example, here (
http://www.ndnation.com/blog/labels/jack%20swarbrick.html):
Admissions standards limit the pool of highly rated recruits available to Notre Dame. Urban public school players dominate the top 50 in recruiting rankings, and Notre Dame will not admit all but one or two of them in any given year. In addition, a large percentage of Catholic and/or suburban high school basketball stars will not qualify academically for Notre Dame.....
As a result, Notre Dame's men's basketball coach recruits from a pool of mostly three star players from suburban high schools with strong academics. Few of these players are prepared to be Big East level contributors, with an average of about one per year able to earn significant playing time right away. Many become fine players in time, but it takes time to polish skills to compensate for other athletic deficiencies.Just because Notre Dame has offered the countries' best players doesn't mean they will get those players. It also could mean that the current staff has gotten the Irish to relax their standards. Or those players are good students. Or they just recruit who they can until they find out that said player can't hang in the classroom or cross the admissions threshold.
But maybe they are all better students than McGary. Here are some comments on McGary:
http://www.theboilingpoints.com/2011/05/2012-rivals-rankings-features-three.html: No. 5 Mitch McGary: Purdue coach Matt Painter and the Boilers were once very early favorites for McGary, but academic issues scared them away. It looks like the big man out of Northwest Indiana might have his act in order and is turning it on in terms of basketball. He was ranked No. 92 in the previous rankings.also
http://www.indystar.com/article/20110516/SPORTS02/105160315/Prep-school-helps-Chesterton-s-McGary-his-grades-his-game: A year ago on the Assembly Hall floor at the Adidas May Classic, Mitch McGary was surrounded by a horde of reporters and bluntly admitted that his road back from academic woes would be a long one.
At that time, the 6-10 Chesterton native was considered as much of a project as a top high school basketball prospect. The talent was obvious, but the desire wasn't always as evident.
McGary even talked about quitting basketball. That article is from this month.
As for Notre Dame doing it by design, that's what I have heard; and after 11 years, i think Mike Brey knows how not to waste time recruiting. You don't see him pulling a Norm Roberts and chasing some player he's late on until all the Truck Bryants are long gone and the Syl Landesbergs are committed somewhere else and he's left with TyShwan Edmondsons. A good coach knows who fits his system and executes a recruiting plan that's realistic. Notre Dame isn't sniffing at Kyle Anderson or Shabazz Muhammad, because they know what battles they're likely to win.