Round: 2 Pick: 8 Player: Kristofer O'Dowd School: SoCal Position: Center At this point, some very key skill players have already left the pool, so it remains a cogent tactic to keep building up my offensive line. And since I've got the blind-side covered, it's time to make sure the rest of the OL knows what they're doing. To help with that, I've taken SoCal Jr. Center, Kristofer O'Dowd. Career: O'Dowd actually started games as a freshman until injuring his knee in 2007 (dislocated ...
2009 ND vs. Opps Draft
2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: Classic Ground’s 3rd and 4th Rounders
Classic Ground keeps plugging away with his write-ups of his draft picks in our 2009 ND vs. Opposition Mock Draft. The terms "substantial" and "girthy" come to mind. Check them out. ...
Carroll, Meyer Subvert ND Recruiting Efforts
Scene: Last winter. Pete Carroll, Urban Meyer, and the staff of Bluechip Athletic Solutions sit in a meeting room in an evil lair located on an island somewhere in the Pacific. Carroll: Do you know why we've brought you here? BAS Staffer (scared, sheepish): Um, no. Where the hell are we? Meyer: We'll ask the questions. Carroll: I'll ask the questions. You're here because we've received word from our spies that Notre Dame has contracted you to build and host a new website to help ...
2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: HLS’s 1st Round Pick
Round: 1 Pick: 4 Player: Charles Brown School: SoCal Position: Left Offensive Tackle When building a football team, I'm a big believer in building a solid foundation before you go adding the various accoutrements of the WiFi and the HDTV in every room. Wait. Stop. Metaphor crash. Sorry. Burn Notice gets distracting. Okay, so, when thinking about how I'd assemble a team made up entirely of people from the rosters of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and their 2009 opposition, I took a ...
2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft: Classic Ground’s First 2 Picks…
Paul's the first out of the gates with his first 2 picks in the inaugural ND vs. Opposition Draft with his choices of Taylor Mays and Golden Tate for his 1st and 2nd round picks.. Like we mentioned before, given we've got 130 of these picks to write-up, the sequence of the write-ups will be of the non-sequential sort. We're hoping to have our own first couple of picks revealed shortly. For now, go check out why Paul picked Taylor Mays, a Safety, over just about everyone else in the field. ...
The 2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft
Mel Kiper Jr. seen here eating his heart out. Earlier this year, and I mean early, a series of discussions on various ND football boards, plus a lot of writing about how the talent on ND's roster so "clearly" "outclasses" so much of the talent on the rosters of the opposition of 2009, got myself and a few other ND football bloggers to thinking about what a mock-draft of all that talent (Irish and not) might look like. So we decided to hold our own mock draft, and very soon we'll start ...