Over the summer of 2009, folks from The Blue-Gray Sky, Classic Ground, Rakes of Mallow, and Her Loyal Sons held a mock draft from a pool of talent consisting of the rosters of the 2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and their opponents for that season. As the season approaches, we're presenting our picks in hopes of sparking some debate and helping the ND fanbase better know the ND team and their opposition. Round: 7 Pick: 40 Player: Colin Kaepernick School: Nevada Position: ...
2009 ND vs. Opps Draft
2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: HLS’s 6th Round Pick – #33
Over the summer of 2009, folks from The Blue-Gray Sky, Classic Ground, Rakes of Mallow, and Her Loyal Sons held a mock draft from a pool of talent consisting of the rosters of the 2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and their opponents for that season. As the season approaches, we're presenting our picks in hopes of sparking some debate and helping the ND fanbase better know the ND team and their opposition. Round: 6 Pick: 33 Player: Brian Smith School: The University of Notre Dame Position: ...
2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: HLS’s 6th Round Pick – #32
Over the summer of 2009, folks from The Blue-Gray Sky, Classic Ground, Rakes of Mallow, and Her Loyal Sons held a mock draft from a pool of talent consisting of the rosters of the 2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and their opponents for that season. As the season approaches, we're presenting our picks in hopes of sparking some debate and helping the ND fanbase better know the ND team and their opposition. *Note: After the 5th round, we decided to speed up the draft a bit by each making 2 ...
2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: Classic Ground, Rounds 11 and 12
Over the summer of 2009, folks from The Blue-Gray Sky, Classic Ground, Rakes of Mallow, and Her Loyal Sons held a mock draft from a pool of talent consisting of the rosters of the 2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and their opponents for that season. As the season approaches, we're presenting our picks in hopes of sparking some debate and helping the ND fanbase better know the ND team and their opposition. Classic Ground gives a quick look at all of the players they've drafted thus far and then ...
2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: Classic Ground, Rounds 9 and 10
Over the summer of 2009, folks from The Blue-Gray Sky, Classic Ground, Rakes of Mallow, and Her Loyal Sons held a mock draft from a pool of talent consisting of the rosters of the 2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and their opponents for that season. As the season approaches, we're presenting our picks in hopes of sparking some debate and helping the ND fanbase better know the ND team and their opposition. Classic Ground picked a guy in the 9th round who isn't even expected to be a starter on ...
2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: HLS’s 5th Round Pick
Over the summer of 2009, folks from The Blue-Gray Sky, Classic Ground, Rakes of Mallow, and Her Loyal Sons held a mock draft from a pool of talent consisting of the rosters of the 2009 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and their opponents for that season. As the season approaches, we're presenting our picks in hopes of sparking some debate and helping the ND fanbase better know the ND team and their opposition. Round: 5 Pick: 25 Player: Brett Swenson School: MSU Position: PK I ...
2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: HLS’s 4th Round Pick
Round: 4 Pick: 16 Player: Joe McKnight School: USC Position: RB Just about now, in the draft, I start to panic, and I remind myself that I probably couldn't run the Detroit Lions any better than those who do run the Detroit Lions. Well, okay, I could, but just barely. Anyway, I start to see a future me who is in possession of a team with no game-breaking skills, so I do what any GM in a mock draft of this sort would do. I furiously scan my copy of Phil Steele. I go look at what ...
2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: HLS’s 3rd Round Pick
Round: 3 Pick: 12 Player: Kevin Basped School: Nevada Position: DE Time to start thinking about defense. And my top priority is speed on the edge. 1) I want to get to the opposing QB in a hurry, and 2) All these spread-happy offenses that are all the rage today require everyone, even DL, to "play in space." At this point in the draft, I had the chance to take some good, young talent that could develop into something special, but I also happened to have a chance to take a guy who's a bit ...
2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: Classic Ground’s Picks Are Brought To You By The Numbers: 7 and 8
Classic just really starts digging deep in the talent pool with his picks for round 7 and 8 of the 2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft. He also starts to make me feel guilty about having only finished 2 write-ups. So, off to writing! For those of you not writing, go on over to Classic Ground and enjoy a video in which the latest edition of the Irish look awesome while running a screen play. Try to ignore the talent differential. ...
2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: Classic Ground Moves on to Rounds 5 and 6
Classic Ground just keeps right on keepin' as they present their 1 pick from round 5 and 2 picks from round 6. Makes sense, right? Right. Featured in his picks, 1 stat about one particular player that looks awesome for that player, horrible for his team - his number of tackles. ...