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 post, but for now, suffice it to say that what Charlie Weis has managed to do in about a week has been positively Urbanesque! And we love it!
Everyone, please welcome Brian Smith (ILB) and Brandon Walker (K)!
Brian Smith (son of former ND fullback Chris) had been a verbal commit to Iowa, but his real field of dreams had always been located at 46556.
Brandon Walker had been committed to Louisville, but it would seem that the departure of their head coach created a bit of a recruiting ripple.
Welcome to the family, fellas!
Related Posts: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 that anyone who is feeling hungry or parched whilst within a mile of the Super Bowl will have to purchase their food and beverage from designated Super Bowl vending locations. However, it takes but a moment of thought to realize that this is really a microcosm of what the late-80s USSR looked like. Since nobody can have any chance at having a tailgate that is superior in quality or size to their neighbor’s, nobody will have a tailgate at all! It’s like blue jeans. Kinda. Or toilet paper.
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Super Bowl ticket holders, seen here, are already wandering the streets of Miami, looking for food, beer, and some TP.
And, of course, any beer, brats, or artificially flavored, coloured (hello, readers from the UK!), cheese-like nacho toppings will have traveled through miles and miles of bureaucratic red tape before anyone can get to them, if they can get to them at all!
How appropriate is it, then, that the Super Bowl is to be held within a stadium of which the walls are crumbling on down?
Hit it, The Boss!
Editor’s Note: Um. Yeah. We can’t read good.
Related Posts: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:
Hey, speaking of eggs and whiskey, it’s time for lunch!
Related Posts: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 boy staring a DE chart with the depth of the hadopelagic zone in the face.
Visual representation of Notre Dame discussion boards in the last few hours here:
Admittedly, if I were trying to pick a D Line for which I’d like to play based on this past season’s performance, Florida would be right up there, and I’m sure that new shiny mythical national championship trophy makes for one hell of a recruiting tool.
Ah well, tomorrow will be another day, and there’s bound to be some statistical law out there that dictates that ND is bound to recruit more than a few DL recruits in a single recruiting season someday.
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And they’ve got plenty of you!***
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 not make it at all, joining a list that includes Terry Baker, John Huarte, Gary Beban, Pat Sullivan, Andre Ware, Gino Torretta, Danny Wuerffel, Chris Weinke, Eric Crouch and Jason White.
“Really, he’s not that fast,” Seamon said of Smith. “He gets run down by defensive ends. He’s not real big. He kind of stares down his targets. You didn’t see those breathtaking, thread-the-needle throws [against Florida] that you’d hope to see from a top-of-the-draft quarterback.”
*** Like how I sort of spun that one around and made it my own? See what I did there?
Related Posts: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 lazy to edit it out, but this shows just how much of a stud this kid is. In High School. The dude is a beast, and I am PUMPED to have him on the squad. I expect big things.
Now that I think about it, I love the Michigan note at the bottom. It reminds them what they missed out on. I’m sure they’ll be reminded time and again as Hughes plows over their hapless LB’s over the next 3-4 years…
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