Can Marcus Freeman Raise Notre Dame's Recruiting Ceiling?
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ND needs an offensive recruiter as skilled as Freeman
to have a hance to win playoff games. Tommy Rees may develop into a good play caller. However, I don/t think he has the ability to recruit high end QB's, receivers and running backs.
Notre Dame just signed three 4-star WR's including two top-100 type players
Colzie finished the season in the top 100, Styles spent most of the season in the top 100 and some think he has the highest upside of the three Notre Dame signed. In some years, Jayden Thomas would have been the highest rated receiver in the class for Notre Dame. This year he was just the icing on the cake.
Notre Dame swung and missed at Shipley which cost them the chance at a higher rated back but still ended up with a 4-star in Estime. 2022 RB recruiting looks like its in fantastic shape.
QB recruiting for 2022 is still up in the air, but signing a top 50 QB this year in Buchner makes 2022 a bit tricky.
Add in Johnson, Tyree, Mayer, Diggs (likely) and we have signed a lot of highly rated players on O.
Some of the other TEs should be very good as well. QB is a ? For 2022 but, we should have plenty of difference makers at the skill positions. We just need the right scheme and development.
How could that possibly be?
Are they rocket scientists?
Already landed 4* Ford and essentially 4* Griffith. Griffith's words: he's going to put guys in...
Position to play FAST!
That is the BIGGEST and MOST needed change in this D. It's happened slowly but not FAST enough. There's been too much speed and talent on D to play this read and react style. DBs 12yds off the WR is asinine and puts the DB in no mans land. This D has had fast corners and big corners. Not letting play press is basically asking the QB and WR to play catch. Troy Pride should've been pressed his whole career. Never saw a WR faster than him but if they get a 10yd running start and you still have to turn around...forget it. And no more of this DTs or DEs grabbing the OL and looking for the ball...they need to start watching NFL guys who slap, rip, club, and slip. You hold and look...you're done. The offense is adapting to all that old slow style D. Time to catch up with the new. Feel like Freeman might be bringing that.
do you think any of that is Kelly’s influence?
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He just may have more time on his hands to reach out to recruits since covid has killed the
dinner speaking circuit.
What ever happened to Freeman's supposed Director of Defensive Recruiting, Chad Bowden?
It seems that he really doesn't need him.
I still want him
Don't know if he himself is the solution as I don't know much about him, but going this route is probably the only way to compete with the Alabama/Ohio State/Clemson's of the college football world. And let's be honest, outside of them, we are already competitive. We're currently in that group with Oklahoma and Georgia of the best of the not top 3. To take the next step we need better recruiting. When we are truly on par with talent, we may find we need to do better with coaching, but it's tough to say until you have athletes on par with the best. Not a big fan of Bama's having former head coaches rehabilitating as analysts, but but maybe we need to did into that pool as well or do something similar. More and higher quality voices in the coaching room is always a benefit, the same as it is with better depth of players. It steps up everyones game and gives you options when someone leaves.
Still not convinced that Quinn is all that as an OL coach, but it's an example on a lower level of having an accomplished former head coach on staff as an analyst who can be quickly plugged in as a coach with little loss of continuity. It's always a blow when a player or coach seizes an opportunity for advancement elsewhere, but it's also a good sign that you are doing things right and have excess talent. The plus side to the Tommy Rees scenario is that you might have an ND lifer if he works out, but lifer's at a given school aren't as common as they used to be.