We recently explored my grades for the Notre Dame offense recruiting stretching back to the 2013 class and today we turn our attention to the other side of the ball. As I mentioned in part one of this series, I am the toughest grader on this website. You saw a little bit of that with [...]
Going back to our Vox Media days we've been handing out grades to each player in the incoming recruiting classes but it wasn't until 2013 that we unveiled a more codified grading system. You can read our 2020 class overview for more information on said system. I thought it would be a neat idea to [...]
A recent podcast featured a question and answer segment where it was asked if Notre Dame gets too caught up trying to fix a glaring weakness from the previous season only to let another area in the program become a new weakness in response. On the surface, this seems silly as most well run programs [...]
By most recruiting analyst opinions the 2008 Notre Dame class was the most talented for the school in the period between the #1 class of 1995 and the most recent 2019 class. It was the class that firmly cemented Charlie Weis as an ace recruiter who could talk the talk. Over a period of nearly [...]
Notre Dame football recruiting always has a lot of talk about states, regions, a national profile, pipelines, and Catholic schools. Like perhaps no other school in history, the Fighting Irish have covered a vast swath of territory (now including Germany for 2020!) in order to fill their recruiting classes. Since Brian Kelly's 2010 class the [...]
If you haven't already seen it, last week I reviewed my way-too-early guess at Notre Dame's class of 2019. I also promised you guys another way-too-early guess at Notre Dame's recruiting class for 2020 -- and here it is. The Notre Dame football staff has been recruiting the 2020 cycle very hard since the end [...]
Alabama was knocked off its perch in the 2018 recruiting world and in this past January's title game. The Tide got right back up for the 2019 recruiting cycle and dominated (save one program) the rest of the country once again. Yes, the more things change the more they stay the same. That includes the [...]
Signing Day 2019 has come and gone, which means it's time for me to review my Way (Way) Too Early Guess at Notre Dame's Recruiting Class of 2019. Of the 23 recruits (I was just over on the actual total number of 22) I predicted would end up signing with Notre Dame this cycle, only [...]
Wednesday, February 6th opens up the second National Signing Day for the 2019 recruiting class and for all intents and purposes will bring the current cycle to a quick finish as Notre Dame waits to add one more player to a class that has already signed back in December during the early signing period. In [...]
Coming out of the Cotton Bowl Classic loss to Clemson many Fighting Irish fans have turned their eyes toward recruiting and the quest for the elusive 5-star talents. Today's post was going to be an off-season project either way but following our meeting with Clemson I figured I'd roll this out now. I had been [...]
College football's plan to kill the real National Signing Day allow student-athletes to sign their binding Letter of Intent paperwork begins this Wednesday, December 19th and runs through Friday at the end of the week. The early signing period is upon us and good news for Irish fans, all of the current Notre Dame commits [...]
Some of you may remember that at this time a a year ago (to the date, actually) I put out a Way (Way) Too Early Guess at Notre Dame's 2018 Recruiting Class. It projected big things for the Class of 2018, including a Top 10 finish in 247 Sports Composite Team Rankings. Well, I got [...]
It’s almost November already and the Irish are ready for another Top 15 showdown at Notre Dame Stadium tomorrow afternoon. Before we enjoy the festivities of gameday, let’s take a quick look at the 2018 Offensive Big Board and catch up on some recruiting. 247C Pos Name Temp .9952 OG Jamaree Salyer Cold .9114 OG [...]
It's been a while since we've updated the 2018 Notre Dame football big board, largely because not a whole lot was happening. A few guys here and there committed to this school or visited that one, but that was it. Now that the season has started and everyone's boards are a bit tighter and official [...]
As you might expect, we have a very impressive list of recruiting visitors for Georgia. Normally I would say it's impossible to imagine a recruiting weekend that's a bigger deal than a USC game, but in this case I think there's a discussion. Georgia will play Notre Dame for just the second time ever, and [...]
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