With National Signing Day in the rear-view mirror, and with the popularity, and proliferation, of shows about "the haul," shows like Deadliest Catch, Lobster Wars, Alaska Fish Wars, Swords: Life on the Line, and Wicked Tuna, it struck me that it might be interesting to compare Notre Dame's recruiting hauls under now sixth-year Head Coach Brian Kelly with our 2015 competition. Then, I threw LSU into the mix, for a little flavor, a little lagniappe. So, without further ado, let's look at the ...
Oversigning
Doing It the Right Way
By now, most Fighting Irish fans are familiar with a certain kind of article about Notre Dame football. You know, the kind that serve mostly as click-bait to drive up the pageviews, coming in two flavors: "irrelevant" and "Notre Dame has sold it's soul for football". They, and their target audiences, simply can't reconcile that any school, much less Notre Dame, can achieve success in football by "doing it the right way" off the field as well. ND's current success simply must be a product of some ...
Scholarship Numbers: Do We Have Room for Any More Recruits?
Notre Dame has an interesting problem. We might not have enough room for all the great players that want to play for us and, unlike some other schools, we will not participate in "gray-shirting" or other forms of over-signing. However, given the current circumstances, our class of 22 may already force us to let some young men that are already Irish leave us. ...