Comments on: Irish Celebrate Recruiting Success

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 04:01:21 +0000

25 kids in the UA class, 24 in ours – 49.

For how many of them did the choice come down to one of the 2 teams and how many chose ND, how many chose UA? I think UA made a big last minute push for Vanderdoes, but I don’t know how many – if any – had it down to either UA or ND.

Anybody know?

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:25:14 +0000

Last year’s team was good and lucky. Perhaps too lucky – IMO they played in the NC game a year too early.

That is history.

Let’s remember the 1988 recruiting haul, and let’s also remember that in the 1988 Cotton Bowl they got their butts handed to them by Texas A&M. We know what happened the next season.

We are BACK.

By: Dave88

Dave88 — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:57:05 +0000

It’s a lot easier to keep a recruiting class together when you’re 12-1 than when you’re 8-5. An 8-5 record would give the Greg Mattison’s, Urban Meyer’s and other poachers ammunition to use against ND and plant doubt in the minds of recruits. They may still lose 1-2 blue chip verbal commits every year, but not the 4-5 we’d been accustomed to these last several years.

By: mpsND'72

mpsND'72 — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 06:31:17 +0000

Well, it’s been 3 years now, and following our “3-Year Rule,” I haven’t commented about the Brian Kelly hire until NOW:

Coach Kelly has proven to be a good hire and deserves our support. He seems to have corrected what had become a lost program with a pitiful recent history – relatively speaking – and little, i.e., NOTHING get excited about. SO . . .

Is Kelly the next “Great Notre Dame Head Coach?” Hell, I DON’T KNOW! Is he the best since Lou? YES HE IS! (But, hold your breath, let’s not get too excited, yet.)

Coach Kelly has done a nice job. He gets a B+ from me. That grade goes up with a “W” in the NC game, with recruits from this 2013 class making a measurable contribution.

Good luck, BK. Welcome new recruits, and GO IRISH!

By: Avon Domer

Avon Domer — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:29:07 +0000

Congratulations to Coaches Kelly, Alford, Diaco, Martin, Cooks, Booker, Denbrock, Elston and their ND football program support staff for doing a fabulous job of reeling in the 2013 class of RKGs!!! Congratulations also go to the “Irish Mob” who stuck it out when it appeared that Coach Kelly might leave the program. Your enthusiasm for “Our Lady’s School” is an inspiration to us all, and you’re exactly the type of student-athletes we want represening “Our Lady’s School.” I can’t wait to monitor your successes on and off the field. GO IRISH!!!!

By: Atlantadomer

Atlantadomer — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:31:36 +0000

To quote a very dear friend of mine in a text message on signing day, “Ah I yearn for the good ol days of rationalizing the upside potential of Abdel Banda, Darrin Bragg, John Ryan….”

By: franklin

franklin — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:07:58 +0000

Thank God for Coach Kelly! Vanderdoes is a much bigger Chris Zorich. I wouldn’t trade this class for any other in the nation.

By: GANDFAN

GANDFAN — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:03:04 +0000

Great class! Spring practice! Temple in August! Maybe NC in January!

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:45:07 +0000

203 days to go until the Temple game

just saying …..

By: ElkhartIrish

ElkhartIrish — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 03:13:47 +0000

All Irish fans have been waiting a long time for this wonderful year and this wonderful recruiting class. Thanks to all the players and coaches who made it a wonderful year and hopefully there are many more like it and better. Go Irish!!!!