2023 Football Recruiting: DL Boubacar Traore Commits to Notre Dame

The Notre Dame faithful received more good news Wednesday night when blue-chip defensive lineman Boubacar Traore gave his verbal commitment to the Fighting Irish. The 6'4"/250-pounder out of West Roxbury, MA continues the Irish staff's strong week on the recruiting trail by becoming the 11th commit in Notre Dame's recruiting class of 2023 -- a [...]

By |2022-04-27T20:38:43-04:00April 27th, 2022|Recruiting|60 Comments

2023 Recruiting: OL Sam Pendleton Commits to Notre Dame

Harry Heistand has his first verbal since arriving back at Notre Dame. On Monday night, 2023 interior offensive lineman Sam Pendleton committed to the Fighting Irish during a ceremony at his high school. He was offered only 5 weeks ago and becomes the first offensive lineman to join the class. I am committed to @NDFootball‼️ [...]

By |2022-04-25T22:02:29-04:00April 25th, 2022|Recruiting|12 Comments

2023 Football Recruiting: Top 100 WR Braylon James Commits to Notre Dame

Notre Dame, who you may have heard is, uh, long on opportunity for incoming wideouts, landed a huge piece of the 2023 recruiting class today when top 100 prospect Braylon James announced for the Irish. The 6'3", 190 pound Texan broke the Irish seal for new receiver coach Chansi Stuckey in a big way; at [...]

By |2022-04-19T20:15:51-04:00April 19th, 2022|Football, Recruiting|50 Comments

2022 Football Recruiting: RB Gi’Bran Payne is Irish

Hold up, we're not done with the 2022 recruiting cycle yet. On Friday evening the Fighting Irish signed their 22nd member of the class as Cincinnati, Ohio running back Gi'Bran (pronounced Juh-Brawn) Payne joined the fold. Offered by Notre Dame in the summer of 2020, Payne would commit to Indiana the following summer and signed [...]

By |2022-04-17T12:23:24-04:00April 18th, 2022|Recruiting|25 Comments

Scholarship Update: Breaking Free in Twenty-Three

We are approaching the halfway mark of the 2023 recruiting cycle and this is our first scholarship update of the 2022 calendar year following a December bowl-prep check in after Brian Kelly left for LSU. While Notre Dame lost on the field in the Fiesta Bowl the success and growing optimism off the field through [...]

By |2022-04-10T21:52:06-04:00April 11th, 2022|Recruiting|29 Comments

A Way-Too-Early Guess at Notre Dame Football’s Recruiting Class of 2023

In case you missed it, I recently reviewed my way-too-early guess at Notre Dame's recruiting class of 2022. As is tradition, next year’s way-too-early guess is next, and I think it’s one that most of you would be very pleased with. The Fighting Irish have gotten off to their best recruiting start since, well... Ever? [...]

By |2022-03-14T23:17:31-04:00March 15th, 2022|Recruiting|33 Comments

Reviewing My Early Guess at the 2022 Recruiting Class

Around this time a year ago I published my Way-Too-Early Guess at Notre Dame Football's Recruiting Class of 2022. At the time, college football was still in a recruiting dead period that would last another 3 months. Many of Notre Dame's top targets had never set foot on campus, presenting a difficult challenge when putting [...]

By |2022-02-20T15:45:21-05:00February 22nd, 2022|18S Reads, Recruiting|9 Comments

2022 Football Recruiting Grades: Defensive Backs

Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2022 Notre Dame recruiting class with recruit grades and some thoughts on the class. We started a deeper dive into position groups with a look at the offensive skill positions, then moved on to the offensive line, then the defensive line (plus the punter, because he has to [...]

By |2022-02-08T10:58:25-05:00February 16th, 2022|Football, Recruiting|2 Comments

2023 Football Recruiting: LB Preston Zinter Is Irish

Notre Dame's 2023 class jumped into the #1 spot in the 247 Composite on Friday when four-star linebacker Preston Zinter announced his commitment to the Irish. Avid Irish recruiting fans may recognize the 6'3", 221-pound Bay Staters' surname; his older brother Zak is a former Irish target at offensive guard and incumbent starter for Michigan. [...]

By |2022-02-14T11:45:33-05:00February 14th, 2022|Football, Recruiting|3 Comments

2022 Football Recruiting Grades: Linebackers

Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2022 Notre Dame recruiting class with recruit grades and some thoughts on the class. We started a deeper dive into position groups with a look at the offensive skill positions, then moved on to the offensive line, then the defensive line (plus the punter, because he has to [...]

By |2022-02-08T10:10:01-05:00February 14th, 2022|Football, Recruiting|9 Comments

2022 Football Recruiting Grades: Defensive Line and Special Teams

Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2022 Notre Dame recruiting class with recruit grades and some thoughts on the class. We started a deeper dive into the class by position group with a look at the offensive skill positions, then moved on to the offensive line. Today we're going to look at the defensive [...]

By |2022-02-08T11:10:06-05:00February 12th, 2022|Football, Recruiting|11 Comments
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