If you’re following ND football and recruiting lately, you’ve probably seen the term “poach” come about quite a bit. HLS, always here to serve, offers up a little primer so you can fully understand the term.

Poached:

Not Poached:

Justing Trattou

Poached:

Not Poached:

Brian Smith

Poached:

Not Poached:

If you didn’t keep pretty well connected to the internets and recruiting news in the last 120 hours, you’d be wondering where these names came from, but ND suddenly has itself 2 new and very key commitments from some previously committed-elsewhere players.
We’ll post more on our thoughts about recruiting previously committed players in a later [...]

Apparently men much smarter than the rest of us have decided to pass down a decree banning all tailgating within a mile of the Orange BowlStadium in Miami Florida on Super Bowl Sunday. Some probably guess that the glorius and righteous forces of capitalism are at work. Afterall, the ban all but guarantees [...]

The above headline could be in reference to last night’s recruiting bombshell, or it could be in reference to a certain bottle of Johnny Walker Black. I’ll never tell.
The Roundup:

IRT takes a look at Florida’s container-ship worth of defensive end prospects and wonders if Urb plans to run a gadget defense along with his [...]

Bummer.
Free link here explaining the whole thing. It clearly had nothing to do with new schemes with a new DC, better weather, or prevalence of exposed female skin on Florida’s campus. Definitely not the last one. That’s for sure. That would never play into the mind of a 17/18 year old [...]

Thanks IRT, you’re always on top of this stuff.

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Apparently at least one NFL scout isn’t buying into the hype of the all-world, Heisman winning QB and iconic figure of redemption, Troy Smith.
One scout, the Cincinnati Bengals’ Greg Seamon, was quoted on a Web site ridiculing Smith as an overhyped Heisman-winning quarterback who would flop in the NFL or [...]

After post-poning his decision a few weeks back, All-Star RB recruit Robert Hughes announced today that he will be Irish.
Robert, we love that you took your time and made the right decision.  Welcome to the family!
 
Power RB Hughes.
Rivals Profile:  http://rivals100.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?sport=1&pr_key=37805
Edit:
New Picture – I don’t like the Go Wolverines thing at the bottom, and I am too [...]