About a month has passed since Irish Invasion, and Notre Dame football has received another commitment from the event’s visitors list as Louisiana wide receiver Michael Young has decided to verbally commit to the Fighting Irish. The 247 Composite lists the 5’11″/175-pound athlete as the #511 overall player and the #74 wide receiver in the class of 2017.
Proud to announce that I’ve committed to the University of Notre Dame‼️🍀 #GoIrish #IRISHE17E pic.twitter.com/VqHyLNVHUT
— Michael Young (@_LikeMike10_) July 21, 2016
Recruiting Service Rankings
247 — 3 star (89 rating), #334 overall, #38 position, #15 in Louisiana
Rivals — 3 star (5.6 rating), NR overall, NR position, NR in Louisiana
Scout — 3 star, NR overall, #71 position, #30 in Louisiana
ESPN — 3 star (79 rating), NR overall, #80 position, #24 in Louisiana
247 Composite — 3 star (.8650), #511 overall, #74 position, #24 in Louisiana
Cohort
Michael chose the Irish over other offers from Oregon, Texas A&M, Minnesota, Arizona, Virginia Tech, Missouri, and others. Oregon and Texas A&M were posing some competition for a while, but Irish Invasion pretty much sealed the deal here.
Highlights
Young has been the staff’s priority target at slot receiver this cycle, and the tape shows why. His highlights are legit. I’ll be honest, I don’t see any glaring weaknesses in his game (not to say that there aren’t any, because I’m not qualified to definitively make that claim).
He’s surprisingly physical for someone who weighs 175 pounds — as evidenced by him making two pancake blocks in the first 40 seconds of the film (and then doing it a few more times throughout). He’s pretty fast, shifty, and very dangerous with the ball in his hands. He has some serious big-play potential. He catches the ball with his hands rather than his body and seems to do a pretty good job of adjusting to balls that aren’t thrown exactly on the money. He’s also very clearly a nasty and willing blocker. It seems like he relishes the chance to put an unsuspecting defender on his back.
Impact
The commitment of Michael Young provides some extra depth at slot receiver for the Fighting Irish and further adds to the plethora of talented receivers that will be at Notre Dame’s disposal in the future. As usual, Notre Dame is having no trouble recruiting the wide receiver position in the class of 2017. Young’s commitment makes it two committed receivers for the Irish, and Notre Dame is still in pretty good position for others such as Osiris St. Brown, Tarik Black, and Hezekiah Jones.
Welcome to the Irish family, Michael!
Finally… LOVE this kid’s tape. He looks like Mini Michael Oher, drive-blocking kids into the bleachers. Not even just on running plays, but when a passing play breaks down he starts looking for someone to hit. Can’t teach that attitude, which I’m sure contributed to why the staff liked him so much.
That willingness and ability to block by WRs is often the difference between efficient plays and explosive plays.
Another 3 Star? FIRE KELLY
He looks smooth and efficient in all of his tape. Another great pickup. It’s easy to trust Harry with his OL recruits, and its now starting to feel the same with Denbrock’s WRs. WR class is shaping up to be very quality.
Great point on the young WR’s. All the guys they bring in seem to share traits in talent and athleticism. Works for me.
Agreed. Some people (like NDForever, apparently) will get fired up about the three stars and the fact that LSU hasn’t offered, even though he’s from Louisiana and he’s Joseph Addai’s nephew. Well, look at LSU’s offense, such as it is – Young isn’t a fit at all for what they do. Look at Oregon and Texas A&M, though, who were recruiting him very hard, and you’ll see a spread offense that’s much more similar to ours. The fact that two really good spread offenses (Sumlin jokes aside) want this kid should tell you how much of a fit he is for what we do.
The other comment would just be to look at the damn tape. He doesn’t have elite top-end speed, but he’s fast enough to make you pay if you miss, he has absurd agility, he has nice soft hands that he uses to catch the ball away from his body, and holy sweet mother of Abraham Lincoln does he love to lay people out. Supposedly he was the staff’s top target nationwide at the slot WR position; if all those skills translate to the next level, I’d say their opinion of him will be pretty well justified.
Pretty sure NDForever was sarcastic with the Fire Kelly comment. If he wasn’t Fire NDForever!
As was I, but now it’s not funny. Actually, maybe it wasn’t funny before either – introspection has never been a strong point.
We
payread you for recruitingspection, not introspection.Yeah, haven’t figured out the sarcasm font yet.
Lack of extensive testing has concluded that sarcasm font isn’t necessary…
Thank you guys again for starting this site up. This is not connected to anything at the old site. Nope, not at all. Sigh.
Camooooooooo
And a whole article got deleted. Wasn’t sure because y’all was name-dropped or something happened last night that necessitated a deletion (not of a thread or posts but the whole article)!
Anyways…
Which article was that? I hadn’t even noticed.
The one with BK riding a unicorn. Was frontpage and now it’s gone…the one where somebody was asking what 18s meant and the one where HCH was commenting on TOS and airplanes gif, etc…
Okay, now I remember.
The article still exists, but the link to it from the main page is missing. I went to my User Profile page, and links to my comments on that article are still there, which led me to discover that the article still exists but is just hidden.
I imagine it wasn’t done intentionally, since Joshua was participating in the “TOS” comments.
Simpsons auto-thumb engaged.
Upon further inspection, that article hasn’t been truly hidden but has been hidden in plain sight.
For whatever reason, it is now residing between an article from 8 July and one from 9 July, even though it was written on 19 July.
I blame Y2k, not the new management.
“auto-thumb” much better than “auto-rec”
I prefer to indulge in conspiracies since it fits the vibe on TOS…
Understandable.
Carry on.
I find it interesting that my comment has 4 thumbs down, yet this one has a thumbs up. Hmm.
I’m just happy it wasn’t camo. I don’t remember the comments that apparently got it hidden or whatever.
KG getting a thumbs down? Is this one of those initation where we are to thumbs down this post forever and obligated to thumbs up another one of his post? I’m game :-p
So, MotS was this guy’s primary recruiter, yes? I’m given to understand that any recruit we pull out of Louisiana is directly attributable to Mouth’s efforts. And maybe also to bagmen. But mostly Mouth.
If you take his word for it, everything is directly attributable to Mouth’s efforts. So…
Thank you Brendan, yes it’s true that everything good ever is due to my efforts. Now that will be $5,000 gentlemen, payable in gold bullion.
No bagmen necessary for Young(,) Michael, gents. I just flashed the winning smile and he was Irish.
Hey everyone!
Hijacking Tyler’s excellent post to bring you some quick updates on commenting functionality. We’ve been playing around with stuff over the last couple of days to try to improve your commenting experience, since we know it’s the most important and, unfortunately, most challenging part of the new site right now.
The biggest thing is that we’ve tweaked some things to reduce or very nearly eliminate how much you have to rely on HTML code to dress up your comments. You don’t have to understand the b, i, u, strike, blockquote, ul, ol, a, or img tags in HTML anymore, which I’m sure was keeping some of you up at night.
To include an image in the post, just paste the image URL in the comment box. When you post the comment, the site will turn it into the image itself. (CSN, rejoice.)
To format text, note the new toolbar in the comment editor box with formatting buttons. Nice and easy. For bold, italics, and underline, the usual keyboard shortcuts also work (Ctrl+b, Ctrl+i, and Ctrl+u, respectively).
If you’re posting a link, you’ll have to select the text you want to link and use the link button in the toolbar to add the link itself. We haven’t found something yet to convert URLs to links, but that’s probably not such a big deal. Certainly not as big a deal as the image and formatting options, at least.
Not to be greedy, but might there be a “Preview” option in our future, too?
Thanks!
I don’t know about a preview – that’s starting to get a little complicated, believe it or not. At the very least we’re probably going to sit on this for a while to see how it goes, make sure it’s stable and get a clearer picture of anything else we might want to tweak.
Glad to see you’re enjoying yourself, though. 🙂
Alright! Practice time!
Ah, this just feels good…
Thanks!
Would you be able to offer a simply explanation about how the “blue” not-read boxes work? Sometimes it seems to stay blue even after you refresh a page – I’m not sure how it “knows” when to turn to white. It certainly has been helpful but to clarify this would help me understand what the blue really means since sometime later in the day it is still blue (after closing out the site and opening it back up).
Mots self-reply
I know this won’t be perfect and that’s fine but it would help me use it as is if I understood it better.
A new comment – i.e., a comment that has been created after the last time you visited the article – stays blue for five minutes after you first view it. That’s the plan, anyway; I’ve noticed that it doesn’t always un-blue like it should, but I’m not really sure why that is. And it does un-blue eventually, as you noted.
I don’t want to bore everyone to tears with too much tech speak, but briefly, you can add functionality to a WordPress site with plugins. We haven’t found a single comment plugin that does everything we want yet, so we’re piecing together several that get most of the way there. It might be a little funky until we figure out a non-Frankenstein way to do things.
So it appears CSN posted the “Technical Difficulties” image a bit too soon… My tinkering with comment functionality is what broke the site, so what we’re going to do right now is definitely sit on the functionality as is and approach it more cautiously at some point down the road.
Thanks everyone for hanging with us while we worked out this issue!
It’s much appreciated, Brendan.
Just got another commit. Ovie Oghoufo. MI LB from the same school as Kareem (and apparently good friends). top 300 player. I had never heard the name before, but looks like he is visiting this weekend, and may have visited for II (did according to 247’s timeline, but never noticed it mentioned there before, or on any other site I read).
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