The internets seem quite concerned with the “likelihood” that a team that went 3-9 in 2007 (specifically, Notre Dame) would “rebound” to a “respectable record” in 2008 (say, 8-4). One such discussion is happening here. And in that discussion, a question came up that I actually find more interesting: Sure, it’s rare to “rebound” from such a record, but how common is it to “collapse” from being a 10+ win team to a 3-9 team? Answer: Exceedingly rare.

I figured that had to be the case, but you know me and my unnatural affection for spreadsheets (Yeah, ND Business School!):

As you can see, between the 2004 and 2007 seasons, 34 different teams experienced at least 1 season with a record including 10 or more wins. But only 1 team in that time, Notre Dame, managed to follow such a season with a collapse the next year into “Epic Fail” territory of 3 or fewer wins. The only other comparable collapse would be Tennessee’s own “Epic Fail” of 2005 where they went 5 and 6 after a 10-3 record in 2004.

In fact, the collapse of ND in 2007 was so bad that it was more than 4 games worse than the average “letdown” for a team that just experienced a 10+ win season. On average, any team that had a 10+ win season in our sample experienced an increase of about 1.7 more losses in the following season. ND experienced a 6 game letdown.

I wont get into causation. That’s been hammered on around these parts and everywhere else a football fan can access the internet for long enough, and lord knows we’ll probably do it again ourselves in another post before the 2008 season gets kicked off. But know this: Anytime someone tries to tell you it’s statistically unlikely that ND will have a “good year” this year, you can point out that our disaster of a 2007 season was even more unlikely. Maybe it’s all just dumb luck.

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First, let me express my apologies to the millions of HLS readers out there who depend exclusively on HLS to deliver the latest, most timely Notre Dame Football news. There have been some really significant (huge!) verbal commitments by extraordinarily talented football players to the University of Notre Dame, and “we” failed to mention anything about any of those commitments. As Executive Founding Benevolent Lead Managerial Omnipotent Editor of HLS, I take full responsibility for this gaffe, and I swear to you on the souls of the little blue fish that the big, ugly, black fish ate when I was 7, this will never happen again. The buck stops here. I’m going to make this right.

That said, it was all Biscuit’s fault! Oh sure, I suppose I could have done it, but I was exhausted from my Blue and Gold Game tome earlier this week, and then I was very busy with work, and then there was just so much beer to be consumed. How can you expect one man to consume that much beer and blog? What’s Biscuit’s excuse? Let’s hear it, Biscuit. Let’s hear about what on earth made your widdle wife so vewy vewy hawd that you couldn’t step up and do what we pay you to do!

The Roundup:

• Looks like Demetrius Jones makes a habit of not showing up.
• Charlie Weis, since you’re reading this, please take note.
• Kids, Mario Manningham is your brains of drugs.
• Didn’t Bear Bryant once say something about teams having a “few good seasons” thinking they were the Alabamas, Oklahomas, Michigans, Southern Cals, and Notre Dames of the world? Hey, if I were Rutgers, I’d want to sell tickets to our new stadium too, but if I were Rutgers I wouldn’t actually expect my current coach to around in 3 years.
• Making the most highly unanticipated NFL draft in memory even more highly unanticipated.
• One of the few times I think the NCAA shouldn’t spank SoCal.
• Good luck, Trevor.
• They needed some enormous balls to make this happen.

Finally, here’s a picture simply for the sake of having a picture, as we haven’t had many pictures on HLS lately.

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Holy Flaming Batsuits, Robin, I’ve found the dumbest writer in the history of communication. Illiterates probably berate this woman. Her ancestors, thousands of years ago, probably drew cave paintings of buffalo with which everyone else on the planet confused toucans. Her name is “Lisa H,” and she “writes” a blog on FoxSports.com’s community blogs. You know how they say a million monkeys with a million keyboards, given enough time, could write the works of Shakespeare? Well it would take one monkey to write the equivalent of Lisa H. in an afternoon. And I’m not talking one of those fancy zoo monkeys that knows how to signal for food. I’m talking the monkey still in the forest that eats rotten bananas, can’t figure out that whole “use stick to fish ants out of hole” thing, and even Jane Goodall wouldn’t want to save. (Yeah. I know. Moneky /= Gorilla. I don’t care.)

In “Lisa H’s” “20 burning questions going into football season,” Lisa writes:

14- Will Weis finally get Notre Dame on track?

No. The problem with Notre Dame is not the players. It’s their coach. How desperate is Charlie Weis? He turned over the offense to his OC. Considering that Weis is known as an offensive genius, this is concerning. There is nothing good to come out of this- if the offensive output gets better-and when you are ranked dead last in offense, is there anywhere else but to go up?- then it makes him look overrated as an offensive guru. If the offense still remains the same, then Weis made a poor coaching decision.

Either way, Weis is in a giant hole. Their sked is difficult, and there are only two guaranteed wins, with a third possible one against Pitt. Couple that all in with mumblings about some discontent in South Bend during Spring practice, and you can count on Weis updating his resume. Unless he beats USC, of course.

It’s like she takes courses at the Dan Rather School of Journalism and Making Shit Up. The only mumbling that occurred this spring were in her head while she tried to sound out the Dollar Menu at Wendy’s.

And did she actually use “sked” in place of “schedule?” I think I just heard the sound of a 1000 English teachers blow their brains out.

Way to go, Lisa. You just set the world of the written word so far back that they’re considering works by Pat Forde from his probable 3 years in the 5th grade for a Pulitzer. You have to be less intelligent than the beer I just drank. If you’d lived in the 17th century, villagers would have burned you as a witch, knowing full well you weren’t actually a witch, but unable to help themselves since they just couldn’t take all that stupid any longer. If you don’t eventually die by accidentally suffocating yourself with a plastic shopping bag from the grocery store, millions of dollars will be lost in Vegas.

I’m big on the internet, but I have to admit, the internet, and the enabling of people like terrorists, religious zealots, white supremacists, and Lisa H to share their so-called thoughts make me wonder if we should just unplug the entire damn thing. Giving Brian Cook a voice is bad enough, but this? I need another drink.

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Apparently he was able to convince the good people of East Hartford that  it wouldn’t be good for UConn (cuz Christ loooooooves Connecticut, don’t you know that???) to have the originally-proposed 10 game series happen.

So, no thanks to Kevin White, we’ve avoided playing Uconn for a freaking decade.  Instead, it will just be part of a decade.

Thank Christ.

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This article is infinitely more clarifying than a similar article from ESPN on the Rich Rod Racist drama currently unfolding somewhere that the snake oil selling wizard hangs out. 

If it’s true, and I have no idea if it is, Dicky Roddy is much worse than I thought.   He’s just a horrible human being.

Essentially, this WVU fundraiser is saying that Ricky Ricardo concocted stories about him to derail the WVU lawsuit focused on the buy-out clause.  And that in the process he labeled Larry the Fundraiser a racist in public.  Then, the Rod offered to find Lar a job at scUM to keep him quiet.

All very Desperate Housewives, no?

Maybe we can get ABC to start a Soap Opera about it all.  The Ann Arbor Suth…I like it…

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Yeah, I know you already know.  But I had family in town last weekend and MQ was at the B-G Game (read his encyclopedia covering the weekend below), so we didn’t get to post on it.  Lucky for you, now we are!

Cierre committed the morning of the Blue-Gold game, and had good reasons for doing so.  Note:  I recommend reading the linked article. It’s from Cierre’s local paper and is therefore better than everything else you’ve likely read.  And when I say ‘better’ I’m not talking about the quality of the writing or anything like that.  Just that they actually got quotes from our latest star commit.

Cierre picked ND because of the opportunity to compete for playing time early, the family atmosphere, the academics, and the chance to explore something new and different.

“I wanted an honest answer,” he said. “I asked, Should I redshirt?’ “  He was given an assurance that there would be an opportunity for Wood to compete for a starting position in the fall of 2009.  “They aren’t afraid to play young guys,” said Wood. “I will get my chance.”

“Their academic standards are high,” said Wood. “They graduate over 98 percent of their students.”

Going to a university in Los Angeles “would be like staying at home,” said Wood. “When the time comes, it is time to break away and explore the world.”

I like this kid.   He has his head set square on his shoulders.

And he’s freaking fast.

PS:  A way-too-late post on our other stellar commitment will be up way-too-late as well.  But later.

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Dear ESPN,

We’ve been receiving countless reports of your egg-head analysts naming Maurice Crum as a “notable loss” for the 2008 Notre Dame Football Team. We haven’t seen this ourselves, as we don’t watch you, but the reports are now too numerous to ignore.

Maurice Crum is, in fact, still with the team.

We know that your analysts tend to be wrong about everything, but when they actually manage to be consistently wrong about objective fact, we feel compelled to correct your errors for the betterment of society.

Thanks,

HLS Management

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There were some good questions in the comments of my first post about the Blue Gold Game, and they address things I meant to talk about, so I’ll answer those questions and address some other thoughts here.

• Golden Tate was on the field a lot. It was really as though he was sort of a “featured” asset for parts of the game. It’s clear that the coaching staff wants to get Tate on the field a great deal, but I’m not sure that he was on the field so much this Saturday because of his ability or because the coaching staff really wants to get him as many reps as they can since he was out so much this spring for baseball. Aside from the deep go route that he ran, and now everyone knows about, I also spotted him running what I thought were some hitch routes off an 8 step drive, a square in type thing, an out or two, and then a sort of come-back route that’s like a hitch, where he drove the corner off (who was already playing soft), and then would snap back and sprint back toward the LOS, creating more separation. I seem to recall him dropping a pass, but he does have very soft hands, and he has that unique ability to leap in the air and, at least to an observer, seem to float. And he’s just plain fast. The defense knew he was running a go in that last deep pass play, and he did, and Jimmy threw it right as Tate was level with the DB, and Tate not only ran under the ball, but kicked it an extra gear to do so. It’s really impressive to see. ND hasn’t seen that in a while.
• There were no kickoffs in the game. The punt game was used, but all punts were fair-caught. Some of the punts were very nice. One was a real shank. I’m not real concerned with it. Maust was, and I believe still is, a fine punter. No clue on kickoffs, obviously. Field goal kicking was a nice surprise. All kicks looked pretty strong. There was an attempt at a 43 or 46 yard kick that had plenty of leg, but hit the left upright about 1/3rd of the way up the post. Had it been on target, it was enough leg for a 48 yard field goal. Nice to see. Also, though I wasn’t paying much attention, it looked like whoever is doing long-snapping is actually just fine. Some real zip on the snaps.
• Left tackle, despite the sacks, seemed to do alright. I didn’t understand what was going on during one of the sacks because it looked like the tackle, Paul Duncan, just stopped playing, but apparently Weis didn’t want the OL cutting the defense, so they’d yell “cut!” and the defender was supposed to stop pursuit. That didn’t happen, apparently. And really, the entire system just makes it tough to see how much that position has progressed. I will say that Duncan seemed much more comfortable with his initial step. When I watched him, he seemed pretty fluid. So there’s hope. We’ll just have to wait and see.
• Harrison Smith made a nice play to get that pick-6, but if my memory isn’t fooling me, the entire set-up to that play was sort of weird. Before that play, the offense had a very comfortable lead. Also, a little bit before that play, I noticed Weis leave the defense side and go talk to the offensive coaches. Then I think there was a time-out, and the coaches were giving very specific instructions to Clausen. It really all sort of seemed like either the coaches were setting up the game for a chance at a defensive come-back, or they were so obvious in their coaching of Clausen that Smith probably knew what was coming. I have a feeling it was the later. The team seemed to be practicing situations outside of the game itself (more on that in the next item), and Harrison Smith might have know what was coming. Still, and excellent play.
• Brian Polian was standing behind the offense, on the field, during the entire game. And in between each play, he was making signals to both the offense and the defense. I couldn’t hear what he was saying, but I think he might have been telling the offense and the defense about the situation for each play beyond simply, “3rd and 5, on the Gold 31, 4 minutes remain.” I think they were imagining and working on scenarios separate from the game the people in the stands were watching – sort of a “game withing a game” type thing. I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that’s what was going on.
• As I mentioned before, Weis spent most of his time on the defensive side of the field. He seemed, for the most part, to be having a nice time. I think it was a good idea, too. It further affirms that he’s a “head coach” and not just an OC with head coaching responsibilities.
• I didn’t see Tenuta on the field. I believe he was in the booth. He was always in the booth at Georgia Tech, and if there’s someone you want looking down on the field, looking for openings and weaknesses, it’s him.

Anyway, again, if you’ve got any questions, just ask, and I’ll try to answer them.

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So there I was, about 15 hours removed from an all-you-can-eat-meat-fest in celebration of my birthday (no jokes about Alumni Hall parties, please), about 5 minutes after the rains cleared, and about 5 months after a 3-9 season when it began to dawn on me: I’m not going to be able to park anywhere near the stadium today. Why? Well, I’m pretty sure that not all of the usual “stadium parking” was open, but mostly I couldn’t park anywhere near the stadium because way more people than I expected, given the previous record, the crummy weather forecast (you were so wrong, Frommy), and the lack of any real “must-see” facets to the game, showed up to watch the game.

And so began a full afternoon of mostly pleasant surprises for my little trip back to South Bend for the 2008 Notre Dame Blue and Gold Game Festival, or whatever they call it. I know they call it a festival, and I’m not clear on why. A festival of what? Construction cranes? Because that’s the only feature on campus I really noted as being remarkable. Crikey, there is a lot of construction on that campus these days. Nice to know my donation dollars are going to good use. This year I donated enough to pay for 2 construction workers to take a lunch break on non-holiday pay. Wont you help feed the construction workers? Donate today!

In keeping with my “manic stream of consciousness” theme I’ve established thus far, I think I’ll just start listing things I noticed about the day, the game, my school, and life on this, the 19th of April. If you have a hard time keeping up, just imagine I write for cnnsi.com except with lower pay and way more qualification. If you still have a hard time keeping up, please don’t have children.

• Good: ND managed to have I’d guess 30,000 people show up to the spring game of a team that just went 3-9. Bad: Half of the stadium was closed due to construction, so it looked like a pretty poor showing in person. Probably looked worse from any media cameras that were there. I was concerned this would hurt our recruiting efforts for the weekend. As you know if you’re reading this, it didn’t. And you know that because you read ND football blogs, and have thus read the news that we at HLS have not yet covered unless The Biscuit posts something about it before I get done with this piece.
• Apparently 90% of the fanbase hasn’t gotten the message that Charlie is no longer calling the plays on offense, based on the comments I was overhearing. And I moved around in the stadium a fair amount. The ignorance was homogeneously distributed.
• Our linebackers have a hard time “staying clean.” I say that despite what seems to be the common (mis?)conception around the internets that the linebacker play was pretty good today. I figure that’s due to Harrison Smith looking like Zibby 2.0. Yeah, he looked great when he was making plays. When he wasn’t making plays? He was lost. He was. That’s to be expected. He’s moving down to LB after training as a Safety for so long. It’s a quick read, and normally he has more space between himself and the guard within which he can recover. Good news is, he sure is quick to recover. Crum still has trouble shedding blocks, but he took on the contact with a lot of gusto. Maybe he’s hoping to scare 320 pound guards from blocking him.
• That said, even with our linebackers getting caught up too often, they did make some plays, and they are very, I repeat, very active. From the moment the huddle breaks, they’re moving around. It was a pain trying to find the MLB from the stands, and I know who he is from the minute he walks on the field. Good luck, opposing centers/QBs. Say farewell to 4-5 seconds of play-clock. Better get the calls in quickly, opposing OCs. Also, if this was the “vanilla” version of the defense, my god are we going to blitz a lot. And with Kerry Neal and Brian Smith continuing their best impersonations of angry-giants-with-heads-aflame, I’m predicting 2-3 opposing QBs knocked out of play in 2008. Seriously. I’m trying to temper my enthusiasm, but it really seems Corwin Brown has embraced Tenuta’s public “never let the QB get comfortable” mantra and Tenuta’s lesser-known, private mantra of “Kill! Murder! Death!”
• Trying to make any guesses about the performance (in terms of quality) of the 2008 squad based on this game would be about as successful as forcibly creating a democracy in the middle east. And, really, going to the game as a die-hard fan is just a giant mind-screw. Every single positive is a negative in this game. Hughes looked great, is that because our defensive front looked terrible? Our OL gave up a few sacks, are Neal and Smith just that awesome? Our wide receivers drop a lot of on-the-money passes. Is that because… wait. No. They just drop a lot of freaking passes. Let’s talk about that in our next item.
• Our wide receivers drop a lot of passes. Look. I know we were sort of spoiled there for a bit with our mini-renaissance of the Stovall/Shark era, where anytime a ball went up, it seemed like a Notre Dame pair of hands came down with it, but jeezy-creezy, it’s not as if the dropped balls today were due to “stone hands” or nerves. They were due to sloppy freaking technique. Every time a ball got dropped, it was due to the receiver trying to catch with his pads or “basket catch” something that should have been caught with the basic “triangle technique.” What’s the “triangle technique,” you ask? Hold one hand out in front of you, palm facing away, thumb perpendicular to index finger, index finger pointing upward in a diagonal fashion. Now do the same thing with your other hand. Now turn yourself around. Ha! Kidding! No, seriously do the first things, the parts with the hands, and then bring them together until your thumbs and index fingers make a triangle. That’s the “triangle technique.” Now you know how to properly catch a football when running an out, a slant, a hitch, a square in, or a post. And believe me, it’s way easier to catch such passes with that technique than the “let it bounce off your pads, then catch it on the rebound” technique. Why didn’t your dad teach you this? You dad does suck. And our coaches had better correct this laziness, something I’ve seen them correct in certain players named Maurice Stovall, right this freaking minute (or whenever the team gets to practice again).
• God help you if you are a defensive anything and Chris Stewart gets his hands on the inside of your pads.
• Clausen throws a pretty freaking ball. And he’s faster than Quinn. And Quinn’s a pretty good athlete. I’m not saying Clausen would win a straight sprint against Quinn, but when he ditches the pocket, or he steps into the pocket, it’s a shade quicker than Quinn ever was, and he’s a full step quicker than Clausen himself was in 2007. That little bit will help a ton this season in making the OL look a lot better.
• Amazing that the Big Televen officials still found ways to screw up this game.
• Girls most definitely did not dress like that when I was at Notre Dame. No wonder our recruiting rocks.
• I own every shirt worth owning in the ND bookstore, and I haven’t bought a new one in 2 years.
• BP still has their “dorm of the year” banner up on the front wall. They won it in 2004-2005. I’m going to go find my “best hustle” trophies from little league.
• Clausen now looks like a QB rather than just a guy that throws balls and hands off the running backs. He has the “presence” that Quinn actually had in his freshman year. He’s looking guys off. He did, actually, try to throw a few away. He did throw the prettiest deep ball I’ve seen in ND stadium in 10 years. He threw, I think, everything right where it had to be with the exception of the first series. I figure the first series was just designed to remind anyone who’d forgotten what 2007 looked like. At any rate, I don’t think Clausen will be a problem in any way. And he clearly has the material to become the guy who can take a team to the top of the national stage. Also great to see: Much more “involved” with the other players. They were all coming up to him to give him “bumps” after positive plays. His OL all seem to have his back. And after the “game” ended, Jimmy was the first guy from the offense giving the defensive guys high-fives. These sorts of things do more to bode well for 2008 than anything you can see “in play.”
• Weird reaction I had when the team came out of the tunnel: We look really small. Not sure why I thought that. I saw a lot of the players after the game around campus. They aren’t small. Even our DBs look quite big, actually. Just a weird gut reaction. It might be that our OL, as massive as they indeed are, actually don’t look like they’re maxed out on weight. Except Stewart. Stewart’s built like a pimped out Land Rover.
• The “fight” was a great thing to see, from a fan’s point of view, because it reinforced that these guys are taking a lot of pride in their work. Second best thing to see: During the “fight,” the first person in my section to give the “fight” a standing-O was the mother of one particular player. I’ll keep her name out of it, but now I know from where that dude gets his ‘tude.
• Throwing the ball on ND probably isn’t going to be the best tactic for beating ND. Better to try gashing ND with a grinding, gashing style of play on the ground. The ND DBs are very good. Even when catches are made, the DBs are very quick to the ball. I would expect to see far more INTs for this unit this year. And Bruton and McCarthy are fun to watch pre-snap. They know exactly where they and everyone else is going to go, and they do a nice job of communicating.
• Before the offense’s “game winning” score, the students were actually “making some noise” in support of the defense. Ha!
• The RBs all seem a full beat faster in identifying their man when they stay in the pocket for pass protection. And that’s no small task as the guys coming at the QB are wasting no time in doing it.
• Speaking of those guys coming at the QB, that constant chanting of “downhill” by Tenuta is paying off, and not just for the LBs. The DBs are noticeably quicker as well when they come on the blitz. Angles still need some work for some of the guys, but nobody on the field has taken a full step sooner than the ND blitzers after the ball is snapped.
• Terrail Lambert laid one on Armando Allen to “save” a TD. It was the loudest pop in 40 minutes full of some pretty good hitting. Good for him. I hope it foreshadows a season where I’m not wondering why younger guys haven’t beaten him out.
• I had one thing that my rational mind allowed me to look forward to today: Young guys, guys we all got jazzed about signing a year or two ago, making plays and having “shining moments” today as an indicator of good things to come. And I got it. You can’t glean much about this program other than the fact that guys like Hughes, The Smiths, Clausen, Allen, Walls, and Kamara all made plays at different points in the game. That’s critical. The classes in front of them are too small to carry the load this season, so these guys can’t just “wait their turn.” And it seems they understand the opportunity they have in front of them and are trying to take advantage of it. With some success, the sophomore class could cause opponents to really hate them for the next few years.

That’s enough for now. I’m sure I’m forgetting things, but I’m exhausted. Do me a favor, if there’s something you really want to know about, just ask in the comments, and I’ll reply. If you want an answer to “will we be better than last year,” I really have to think we will be, if for no other reason than this spring was clearly much more intense than last year.

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I’ll give my impressions of the 2008 Blue Gold game in another post. For now, you can stop hitting the refresh button on your browser because I’ve given you photos. Oh sure, you could go over to und.com and check out all the action in video form, but these images really capture the action in unexpected ways. I’m the Annie Leibovitz of college football action shots. View the entire album here.

No. No. Your thanks are not necessary. Just knowing the good I’ve done here is enough.

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The real “The Shirt” for 2008 has been unveiled. It’s reaching new levels of lame. So we issue you, the HLS reader a challenge: Photoshop something better. Use the original (below) as a template if you like. Or just design something better. Whatever. Just make it not suck. Send them to us at the e-mail address to the right, or just link to your work in the comments.

Go!

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I’m 30 Today.

“From the point of sensuous experience, the estimate of age is low, melancholy, and skeptical. Frankly face the facts, and see the result. Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Roundup:

• That Lou, always tempering expectations.
• I’d expect a transfer request any moment now.
• He’s down on it, but can he get down with it?
• See a trend here?
• This is the stuff puff-pieces are made of.
• I noticed they didn’t ask us our opinion.

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This really is just a confusing story on ESPN.  I’m not really sure what the point is, and after reading it I think I only get about 50% of what’s going on.  I only post and comment on it to 1) point out again that DickRod somehow manages to get tangled up in messy stuff constantly.  It’s fun!   And 2)  to mess with our loyal scUM reader or 2 out there. 

It just seems that Fraudy McFrauderson tends to associate with shady people.   This will not serve him well over time. 

Richy, you should listen to my grandpa, who always said: ”Son, don’t leave your alma mater and cheerleader girlfriend behind in the dead of night, shred your papers, refuse to pay your buyout and then go offer jobs to people from WVU that are accused of being racist.  The last step is the one that will get ya.”  Or something like that. 

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As if the Offensive and Defensive teams didn’t already have strong incentive to put in solid performances this Saturday at the Blue-Gold game, C-dub has upped the ante.  (There’s a lot more in that PC recap, but this is clearly the best part).

The winners will get a surf n turf Steak and Shrimp dinner, while the losers get hot dogs and beans.   Franks and Beans!!!

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That seems to be the ND staff’s chosen mantra in recruiting.   They want the Top Guys.  And, so far, it looks like this strategy is working.  Last year’s haul is an obvious example.

This year, though, almost 1 in 4 recruits in the Rivals Top 100 are considering ND.  25%!  That’s of the Top 100 players.  We do even better among the top 20, with 7 out of 20 (over 33% for you math whizzes out there) considering the Irish.

I know we won’t land all those guys, but having that kind of presence (even if it’s just consideration) in the Top 100 is a far cry from where we were just 2-3 years ago.    And that’s how we get quality guys on the squad – go after the best, go after them harder than anyone else, and get them in here. 

One of the studs on the list is Cierre Wood, who’s reportedly (check out his interest ratings on the Rivals 100 site and notice which 2 are marked ‘high’) down to UCLA and ND as his final two.   The #3 player overall, and the #1 RB, will be on campus this weekend for the Blue-Gold game.  So if you’re headed down there for the game, be sure to give Cierre a shout-out. 

Quality.

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