Charlie landed another stud recruit this week in Offensive Guard Lane Clelland of Owing Mills, Maryland. Lane is a 4-Star recruit according to Scout and helps fill in another of important OL spot, and one at which Charlie loves to keep depth. The Irish beat out the likes of Michigan, FSU and Florida for Lane's services. Given that C-Dub has plucked a few players out from under Mr. Meyer already this year (Lane and Braxton Cave), UF's head coach must be sitting back wondering what the F ...
LSU’s Recruiting Pitch: Come to LSU and Take One on the Chin from your Felon Teammate!!!
And top 2007 recruit Joseph Barksdale, newly joining his team and the collegiate ranks as a 'student' at LSU just a few months ago, got just that. In just month 5 of school at LSU, Mr. Barksdale got a swift right cross from ex-teammate Troy Giddens, who was recently kicked off the team for breaking and entering, identity theft, and other such crimes. Now, he's added assault of his ex-teammate to his growing list of 'accomplishments'. Said Barksdale: "You know, Coach let me know that ...
Another Stellar Commitment
ND landed top rated California Tight End Joseph Fauria over the Blue-Gold weekend as well. Fauria joins a corps of unparalleled talent at the Tight End position, with Charlie hauling in top guys over the past 3 years. Fauria checks in at 6'7", 247 and hails from Encino, California. Just in Poodle Pete's backyard. I bet he just LOVES all of these top CA athletes heading to South Bend and Charlie's Irish. An early 4-star recruit on Scout.com, Fauria caught 22 passes for 339 yards and ...
Notre Dame Wins!
No, I don't mean it in that 'we are scrimmaging ourselves and so we have to win' joke kind of way. Okay, maybe partially. But after the Blue-Gold game on a beautiful 75 degree day in sunny South Bend, it's hard not to walk away with that kind of a headline. ND won in almost every way today. Special thanks to our on-the-street field guy the K-Man of Cleveland, OH for the reporting. First, attendance. The game is getting to be a huge annual event, and this year shattered the ...
And a Little Bit of Defense Too.
(get it, that rhymed with the headline Offense U, my last post. i am witty and hilarious. no more rhyming and i mean it...) Super Stud Defensive End/Linebacker prospect Darius Fleming committed to Charlie's rapidly-growing and huge-by-this-time-of-year-standards recruiting class of 2008 this weekend at the Blue-Gold game in South Bend. Apparently Darius had made up his mind a few weeks back, but kept it a secret until this weekend. Interestingly, Darius is a student at St. Rita's ...
Offense U
C-Dub and ND landed another very-top recruit today in California's Dayne Crist. The LA Times is reporting the pending commitment (press conference tonight) here: http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-spw-hsreport19apr19,1,3605717.story?ctrack=1&cset=true Though recruiting rankings are still not yet published, it would be hard to believe that the top QB in talent-rich California wouldn't be somewhere near the top of those lists. We started calling ND Tight End U the other day ...
NCAA Committee to Consider Text Messaging Ban
The D-I "management council", whatever that is, recommended an all-out ban to text message use in the College Football recruiting wars today. ESPN has a little writeup on it if you're interested: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/news/story?id=2841603 I'd say that overall this is a good thing. Think about how many messages those top recruits must get. Even if a school doesn't have a shot, it wouldn't hurt to text right? Wouldn't you just LOVE getting texts from ...
106
106 is the key number here. I don't mean to say it's the exact number, but it makes the point. The source is sketchy, but I can guarantee he's not off by more than 50. And even then it'd still be embarrassing for those little midwestern nuts. 106 it is. Hehe, funny. To us. Sad for OSU fans and Troy Smith. What's the number 106? It's the number of projected draft spots that separate Brady Quinn's current mock draft position from Troy Smith's. BQ sits at #7 in Todd ...
Zook’s “Invasion” Sends a Message: The Illini are LAME.
So there have been a few articles today about Illi-bringthe-Nois' Spring Game. A few are linked over there on the right of our page here. I find these articles funny. Let's break it down shall we? Point 1: After stealing a few of our recruits this past February (and by stealing, I'm still not sure if I mean it figuratively or literally), Illinois came to Chicago to hold their Spring Game at St. Rita's, which is in a traditionally Irish neighborhood. This is somehow supposed to be a ...
(Un)Holy Toledo!!!
So you know things are bad when little Toledo is outed to be the bad guy. I mean, we used to be able to depend on schools like Miami, USC and St. Mary's to provide us with scandal. But was that enough? NO! Toledo saw Pete Carrol's shady recruiting practices, Miami's ability to somehow conceal high-power assault weapons on the field, and they thought: Hey, that looks like fun! We'll give it a shot. So the players took bribes in the form of cash, cars and groceries. Wait, ...