Notre Dame gained its 8th member in the 2020 recruiting class today with the commitment of long snapper Alex Peitsch. The Washington DC native is highly, highly regarded at the position and joins a list of Notre Dame long snappers with impressive high school pedigrees.
Committed! #FightingIrish pic.twitter.com/IkOv8dCOLb
— Alex Peitsch (@AlexPeitsch) April 24, 2019
Recruiting Service Rankings
Kohl’s Kicking: 5-star, #1 Long Snapper
Peitsch is not ranked by any of the recruiting services, but Kohl’s Kicking is the only one that matters, anyways.
Cohort
The 6’2 220-pounder received an offer last week after a Brian Polian visit and jumped on it immediately. Although he didn’t have any other offers, he was receiving interest from Tennessee, Penn State, Georgia, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Yale, Columbia and others.
Highlights
Peitsch’s snaps are fast, tight, and consistent. Looks good to me!
Impact
There is some scuttlebutt that current LS John Shannon will not exercise his 5th year at ND, which would presumably make Peitsch a starter as a true freshman in 2020. If this is the case, he should be ready to take the reins, and we will hopefully never hear his name again.
Welcome to the Irish family, Alex!
Yeah!!?? Are the Bama and Clemson using shollarships on long snappers? Or us that a BK thing?
Looks like Bama has 1 scholarship LS and Clemson has 2.
Thanks for clarifying.
Bama probably realized just using their big, lumbering offensive lineman to block on FGs and cover kicks MAYBE wasn’t the best idea sometime the evening of November 30, 2013.
#1 seems good to me.
Also, this is a nit, but it’s “take the reins,” like a horse.
Thanks for reigning on the parade 🙂
Fixed!
As long as he doesn’t take the Reynes…of Castamere.
Boom! Top long snapper, totally on brand. Good thing we got to him before Wisconsin or Virginia Tech.
I think Weis was the first coach to specifically scholarship an LS. His logic was that an NFL team had an LS on a 45 man roster so why wouldn’t a college team with 85 spots.
I think since then we have always had one, or occasionally two if the elder stays for the 5th year.
I view it as no different than a K or a P. You want someone focused.
It is a better use of a scholarship than a 15th OL.