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purguy12
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This class is not looking so good. Its not bad but its not great. I hope we land some big time recruits because this team needs a lot of talent to stay good. Any recruiting please post here.
The last three years we had exceptionally good classes until we starting losing key recruits, this year is no different losing our best prospect, Elijah Hood. So far it's decent but if we lose will it unravel. The whole problem is we keep losing the very cream of our recruiting class, the five star recruits have gotten cold feet. It doesn't sound to great for a lot of the remaining top players either.
This class is not looking so good. Its not bad but its not great. I hope we land some big time recruits because this team needs a lot of talent to stay good. Any recruiting please post here.
This class is not looking so good. Its not bad but its not great. I hope we land some big time recruits because this team needs a lot of talent to stay good. Any recruiting please post here.
Ill be happy with some stud DL an OL. We seem to have the skill positions set, WR, RB. LB(to a point). Would love some big, fat, strong, tanks to run behind. It starts at the line....
I look at this totally differently. There are so many teams that are not rank near ND or have not ranked near them for many years but consistently are in the top ten. It is getting the key players that this coaching staff fits into the program thats places us in the top 10.
Lets look at recruiting numbers Rankings
ND 2011 18 2012 10 2013 3 2014 11
Compared to Rank Teams
Clemson 2011 8 2012 14 2013 14 2014 9
Baylor 2011 45 2012 46 2013 31 2014 22
Louisville 2011 42 2012 29 2013 52 2014 18
Oregon 2011 9 2012 16 2013 22 2014 39
Compared to non rank teams
Texas 2011 2 2012 3 2013 13 2014 24
USC 2011 4 2012 8 2013 13 2014 62
Looking at these numbers we are better than most of the top 10 ranked teams. I really do not see the anxiety over this if you were Texas or USC yes but we are still right up there and actually with talent we have we should do better. All top teams lose recruits for lots of reasons most of the time it is because they over recruit top talent knowing some of these kids are not going to play. ND is now in this situation add that plus the academics and weather we normally have to be better at recuiting than most.
I don't think player development is strong at ND. Rees isn't any better, Hendrix is still a dud; WE ARE ND AND WE DON"T HAVE A GOOD QB! Tuitt and Nix look like they regressed in the offseason. A lot of our great players were very good to start with. Floyd and Te'o were special players as freshmen. With the recruiting classes we have had, the reason we are unranked is because the coaches have done a poor job of developing our talent. Tuitt is sticking around because his draft stock has dropped. He may want to reconsider because he may not be any better next year.
It's completely essential to win the USC game and keep recruiting moving forward. From what I hear we have some good recruits coming in for the game and I think we may have a chance for Tyler Luatua and perhaps JujuSmith. Notre Dame needs to start landing some more big time recruits, every year lately we've been losing out on atleast one or two top players and this has to change. Hopefully a big win today helps with getting a top tightend and top safety. Has anyone else heard any recruiting developments? We used to have a lot of good information on recruiting when I posted on CBS, any new info is welcomed. I see we just got a commit from Isaiah McKenzie 5-8" 160 WR out of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.