Notre Dame just sent out a ton of new offers and the dead period ended today.
Generally speaking, Notre Dame has not done well with sending out somewhat last minute offers, but this new staff is a wild card in that regard. Bunch of young guys who are known as aggressive recruiters and don't have the stink of the Notre Dame season on them.
Pulling another 4-6 players in this last month would be pretty impressive.
WR - Oliver Martin & Gavin Holmes/Hippenhammer (Kinda want Hippenhammer just for the article headline potential alone)
DE - Flip Paschal and Jalen Harris
DT - Deontre Thomas
DB - Evan FIelds, Tre Norwood & Terrail Bailey
ATH - Connor Weddington
IF that happens, everyone here should be doing cartwheels.
Hell, if 6 of those 9 come to Notre Dame we should be thrilled.
Martin, Fields, and Norwood are the only ones of the bunch that right now really look good for Notre Dame though.
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Without having to go search Rivals, Scout, etc.?
Thanks.
I'll try to get a post up on the site sometime this weekend if I have time.
Athletes
- Connor Weddington - Uncommitted
- Deon Jackson - Duke Commit
Wide Receiver
- Gavin Holmes - Uncommitted
- Oliver Martin - Uncommitted
- Jafas Armstrong - Mizzou commit
- Mac Hippenhammer (no offer yet) - PSU commit
Defensive End
- Dayo Odeyingbo (no offer yet) Vandy commit
- Josh Paschal - Kentucky commit
- Jalen Harris - Arizona commit
Defensive Tackle
- Deontre Thomas (no offer yet) Nebraska commit
- Kofi Wardlow (no offer) Maryland commit
- Myron Tagovailoa-Amosa - Uncommitted
Linebacker
- All done here
Secondary
- Tre Norwood - just decommitted from Louisville
- Evan Fields- Uncommitted
- Terrail Bailey - Tennessee commit
- Demetrius Douglas - Oregon commit
- Jordan Genmark-Heath - Cal commit
Only 6 scholarship receivers plus Finke (minus Claypool ?)
Lots of DL bodies but few players (yet), same at Safety
I'm kinda liking the DL prospect from Hawaii.
5 of them are WRs, 0 are projected as defensive players. This Alexander guy was listed as recruiting 2 of them for his previous employer, both highly rated WRs from LA, but neither are from high schools ND usually recruits, if you catch my meaning.
The top guys used to put ND on their lists even if we weren't offering them, just to enhance their credibility. Since August, 2014, it is the other way around...it enhances their credibility to leave ND off their lists.
I appreciate your efforts at maintaining optimism, Rocket. But we are toast as far as being a power in CFB is concerned IMO.
There is no miracle coach out there who will both make a huge difference and be willing to come to ND, as long as we are working under a 1970s business plan. I don't really even blame Kelly, although he drives me crazy on Saturdays. I think the admin let him slide this year at 4-8, because they know they publicly de-pantsed him 2-1/2 years ago, and that no coach who has a set of balls is going to come within 100 miles of ND, at least for the time being.
We are grasping at straws.
Notre Dame has been good at identifying talent that is overlooked by the services, so these aren't the Abdel Banda's of the world. But, it's unlikely we will find them on any top 150's.
Also, the lack of star power in this class and the three previous is valid and they've simply not been good enough in this area.
It's not unreasonable to hold the opinion you do on the overall situation. In fact, it's popular.
I think there is a certain level of excitement when new players are added though, no matter what their star rating. And if the new staff can flip some guys in a way that hasn't been successful in the past then that's something to feel good about. I mean, we have to feel good about something nowadays right?
...really do stand out and could be identified by Stevie Wonder. After that, the rankings get very political, and are driven mainly by the marketing plans of the various services.
I agree with you that this staff (or, the former staff) was good to great at identifying talent with the potential for development, but the problem with a lot of those guys is they take two years to develop, then show their stuff for one year, and want to leave to make some money before their brains get churned into peanut butter. Having enough of them mature at the same time in great enough numbers to make a big difference to the overall team in any one year is like hoping to hit the Powerball.
The very best players, the ones going to Alabama, FSU, Clemson, et al, are the best bets to be three or at least two year starters. With them you can build a team with some semblance of continuity.
II think the range we've operated in since 1994 is the range for our performance going forward.
I think if the NCAA is forced to allow payment of players, ND will opt out of the big business side of college football. I think I might be OK with that. Since we hardly ever have a game that starts before 3:45 any more, I have taken, the past few years, to wandering out to the Carnegie-Mellon campus on the nicer Saturdays in Sept and Oct. The games start at 1:00 and are done by 3:30, and the games can be good entertainment. The ten dollar admission is painless, too.
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Nearly four hours in the stadium for the last pro game I attended (Steelers-Ravens, 2015), ditto for Stanford at ND last year.
Two-and-a-half for high school and college games, as it was at ND Stadium 50 years ago. The extra time is all hype.
I watch the Steelers and ND on TV now, most times with the sound off.
fruit?
....no matter the level of competition.
And, BTW, ND's leadership would sell their souls to have C-MU's academic reputation. Are you being sarcastic?
I assume ND will not go after players committed to the former schools of the new coaches (i.e., WF, ASU, Memphis), but maybe some of the new coaches were pursuing and already had relationships with the new offers?
They are trying to do a lot poaching right now.
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