The new early signing period for college football which lands in mid-to-late December each year changed the way program's close their recruiting classes. For Notre Dame like most team's, it's meant taking commits much earlier and nearly wrapping up each class before football season even begins. There are exceptions of course, but that's largely how [...]
Notre Dame football got one step closer to filling out its elite linebacker haul of 2022 today when linebacker Niuafe "Junior" Tuihalamaka verbally committed to the Fighting Irish. The 6'2"/235-pounder out of Mission Hills, CA is the 15th player to join Notre Dame's recruiting class of 2022 -- a class which currently ranks #2 in [...]
The board has been fairly quiet recently, but with the NCAA recruiting dead period ending last week on June 1st, expect that not to be the case over the next few weeks. Notre Dame has already starting bringing recruits to South Bend, holding the Irish Invasion this past weekend mostly to get a jump on [...]
In a move that surprised exactly zero people, Notre Dame gained the verbal commitment of defensive tackle Donovan Hinish at the start of this past weekend on Friday. The 6'2"/275-pounder out of Pittsburgh, PA is the 14th player to join Notre Dame's committed class of 2022 -- a class currently ranked 4th in the nation [...]
The college football world is abuzz with newfound energy this week, as the NCAA's COVID-related dead period finally ended when the calendar flipped to June. Some schools even hosted a basketball-style "Midnight Madness" and welcomed recruits into their facilities as the clock chimed its way into the new month. We can understand the excitement, given [...]
The board has been fairly quiet as most prospects have focused on packing their suitcases for the end of our long national winter the dead period on June 1st. As we mentioned last time, Notre Dame has an absolutely monster month of visits set up, for 2022 and 2023 prospects, and every other school has done [...]
During our last scholarship update back in mid-January we paid special attention to the one-off rule(s) regarding eligibility for the 2021 season coming off the effects of the pandemic at a time when Notre Dame's recruiting class was quite small and spring ball--and thus some transfers--hadn't occurred yet. As a refresher here's another look at [...]
We're just under three weeks away from the end of the longest dead period in the history of modern college football recruiting. There hasn't been a ton of movement since our last defensive big board update, but I fully expect that to change within the next couple of months after recruits have a chance to [...]
In Part 1 of this series we looked at the defensive recruiting of Clemson in the 2012-14 window in the lead up to their 2016 National Championship, how they supplemented that recruiting with young players, and comparisons to Notre Dame then and now. Today, we'll tackle the offense where Clemson hit on a generational quarterback [...]
Notre Dame added another quality tight end to its 2022 class today when Holden Staes announced for the Irish. The 6'5", 230 pound Georgian committed to Penn State last summer but re-opened his recruitment in February. This wasn't a case of second thoughts after his recruitment blew up, as he already had almost all his [...]
Over at ESPN+ a while back I was reading how Bill Connelly compared Notre Dame today to Clemson in the 2012-14 window with how the Irish were recruiting more blue-chips in the present than the Tigers were back then. So, I want to do 2 things in this two-part series. One, compare Notre Dame's 2012-14 [...]
Notre Dame added a big, athletic tight end to its 2022 class on Sunday when Eli Raridon announced for the Irish. The 6'6"/230-pounder out of West Des Moines, IA is the 12th commit in Notre Dame's 2022 recruiting class -- which now ranks 4th in the country behind Georgia, LSU, and Ohio State. 100% COMMITTED!!!!!☘️☘️☘️☘️@NDFootball [...]
There's been a decent amount of movement on the board since the last time we checked in on Notre Dame's 2022 offensive recruiting. The biggest development has nothing to do with individual prospects, though; it's that the NCAA has decided to finally lift the dead period as of June 1st, which as you might imagine [...]
A few weeks back we kicked off the 2022 defensive Big Board with a comprehensive rundown of where things stood. Fast forward almost a month and we do have some movement, with commitments coming at linebacker and defensive end and official visits being set up for the month of June. We will certainly see some [...]
Notre Dame added another big, athletic defensive end to its 2022 class today when Darren Agu announced for the Irish. The 6'6", 225-pound Georgia resident has had quite a fascinating journey to where he is now. Born in Ireland, Agu moved to London as a child. He played six-man football there and made a name [...]
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