Yes it is.   Pun-pu-pun-pun-PUN.

Alex Bullard is Irish.

For Alex, it came down to his two childhood favorites - Tennessee (T-Tennessee, Lord I really been real stressed…down and out…) and Notre Dame.

What won Alex over, and what has become a theme among recruits lately, was the academics at ND:

“Basically the biggest thing for me was life past football,” he said. “It’s a smaller school with a smaller setting and a smaller environment. Notre Dame is more tailored to how I operate in the classroom and it’s similar to my school. I like the smaller campus community and smaller classes.”

ND was in a close race with Fulmer’s Vols, but Alex appears to be all Irish, and ready to help Charlie, Haywood, Ianello and Brown recruit other players as well:

Now that Bullard has become the seventh verbal commitment of the 2009 recruiting class, he plans on playing the role of a recruiter and helping Notre Dame’s efforts. He was already in contact with defensive tackle commit Tyler Stockton and wants to reach out to others the way Stockton did him.

“I could see myself doing something similar to Tyler and helping out,” he said. “Hopefully we’ll get the no. 1 recruiting class.”

These kind of recruit leaders are a huge part of Charlie’s recruiting strategy.  Get high quality players, get good people, and get them to help you recruit.  The more they help recruit, the more they buy in.  And if they can bring in others along the way, even better.

Happy to have you, Mr. Bullard.   Welcome to the family.

Share This

• We Just Keep Coming Back To It
• HLS Presents: The Draft Buster Bracket
• Measuring Progress: The Lego City Edition