We don't know for sure, but there were strong indications that Shepard, Greenberry and Muhammad simply didn't qualify academically. And Wright was a similar situation, in that he got expelled from school, so ND stopped recruiting him. You could argue that Kelly's staff shouldn't have recruited these kids from the get-go, but Kelly didn't "lose" them.
Lynch's transfer hurt, but he moved home to get married despite seemingly every authority figure in his life pleading with him to stick it out at ND. It won't be the last time we lose a star recruit to a skirt.
Darby's an Olympic sprinter and ND simply couldn't compete with FSU in that regard.
We still don't know what happened with Neal. I'm not buying the cover story.
Like Ironman, I don't consider Kiel much of a loss. He apparently felt like he couldn't compete with our other QBs; who are we to argue with him?
And there was all sorts of shady bullsh!t with Vanderdoes. If you want to be mad at someone about it, Jim Mora is at least as deserving of your ire as Kelly.
This needs a list to juxtapose of all of the recruits Kelly and Co have "taken" from other programs, I'll start:
TJ Jones (Stanford)
Stephon Tuitt (Georgia Tech)
Max Redfield (USC)
Amir Carlisle (USC)
Will Fuller (Penn State)
Durham Smythe (Texas)
Doug Randolph (Stanford)
Everett Golson (UNC)
Gunner Kiel (LSU)
