Despite missing out on Will Shipley to Clemson last week the good news for Notre Dame recruiting continued in the form of graduate transfer cornerback Nick McCloud from NC State. He will come to South Bend with one year of eligibility remaining. McCloud was a 2016 commit for the Wolfpack out of South Pointe High [...]
Apologies as we've been slacking with the recruiting updates lately. Today, we'll catch everyone up on the recent commits in an extra special 3-for-1 recruiting article. Following a quiet late winter and early spring as the COVID-19 outbreak challenged programs all across the country we have seen an uptick in movement out of South Bend [...]
There have been so many "yeah but wait until next year's class" comments made about Notre Dame football recruiting that it's hard to keep track of which cycles received this tag in the past. In recent years it seems like it has been every cycle as the Irish inevitably start strong and close with a [...]
It's been an unprecedented month for the whole world including for college football whose spring practices came to a sudden halt in March. For Notre Dame, they will head into the uncertainty of summer with just one practice from spring and virtually nothing achieved for player development. Obviously, it's thrown everything for the program into [...]
Notre Dame football gained some much-needed good news this Friday afternoon, as defensive end David Abiara has decided to verbally commit to the Fighting Irish. The 6'4"/250-pounder out of Mansfield, TX is the 3rd defensive commit in Notre Dame's class of 2021, joining defensive tackle Gabe Rubio and safety Justin Walters. David first received his [...]
The clocks have jumped ahead, the weather inches ever warmer, the birds warble their reveille once again. You know what that means - time to revive the Big Board! YEAH BUDDY! Huh? Spring, you say? Oh... Well, I guess it's a sign of that too. We hadn't noticed. Nice. In more significant news, we welcome [...]
A little over a year ago I published my annual Way (Way) Too Early Guess at Notre Dame's Recruiting Class of 2020. As always with these posts, there is a ton of projection and guesswork involved. At this point in February, the Irish are still going through some evaluations, loads of kids haven't even started [...]
This cycle featured a much smaller class than usual (only 18 high school kids originally, minus one who would be in this review had he not made a daring early bid for Fulmer Cup supremacy), and the entire class signed in December's early signing period. That led to a very quiet January and February period [...]
We thought it would be worthwhile to recap an eventful 2020 National Signing Day for your Fighting Irish. Well, now that we've covered all of that... The Irish signed what was expected to be their entire class during the early signing period in December, and [...]
Notre Dame football's Junior Day event this past Saturday, while small, has already bore fruit for the Fighting Irish program. Junior Day attendee and 2021 safety Justin Walters has decided to shut down his recruitment and verbally commit to Notre Dame. The 6'2"/175-pound safety out of Bolingbrook, Illinois is Notre Dame's eighth verbal commit in [...]
Friday night news broke that is never good news. Incoming freshman 2020 corner prospect Landen Bartleson was arrested and charged with first-degree burglary, first-degree criminal mischief, and receiving stolen property valued at $10,000 or more after breaking into a store to steal guns. After an initial comment about waiting to gather facts, less than 24 [...]
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 [...]
If it wasn't official last year it is now. Notre Dame (along with the vast majority of the country) now treat Early Signing Day, which concluded last Friday, December 20, 2019, as the traditional Signing Day. Now that NSD is jammed in between the end of the regular season and bowl season it feels lost [...]
Was I Sleeping? Have I Slept? I wouldn't blame anyone who feels like the early signing period snuck up on them - Notre Dame's 2020 recruiting has been so quite for so long that it was easy to forget it was coming. The staff made big inroads early with its top targets and wrapped almost [...]
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