As expected Nic Weishar 4 star 6’5″ 215 Tight End from Marist HS Chicago committed to Notre Dame thus continuing the TE tradition. Good Hands and Good Speed and family longtime ND fans.
This is the TE Notre Dame really wanted. that makes 7 commits for the 2014 class. Big pickup for the Irish.
Here’s clip of Weishar in action:
Mike Heuerman 6’4″ 220 lb TE Naples Fla. commits to Notre Dame over Ohio State, Miami and LSU. Just a tremendous pick up and kudos to coach Alford who works the Fla. recruiting trail. Heuerman is a real time quality player and think he’s fast enough to play WR but could easily be a faster Tyler Eifert. Here is a highlight reel of Mike Heuerman in action:
Double pleasure here in beating out Urban who no doubt will dog this kid right up to signing day. No worry here about leaving Fla since brother Jeff plays TE at OSU. Really likes the ND players as well as Tony Alford.
So that position filled–need a rb, lb’s, dl men and cb’s. Looks like 8-9 slots left.
This is really starting to look like a monster recruiting class.
Devin Butler 6’1″ 180 lbs from Washington DC is latest commit and brings the CB commits to 2–believe they want 1 more.
This is a quality pickup and big size CB–great to have him.
That leaves ND with about 10 to go–this is shaping up to be a really nice class so far.
On reviewing ND practice film I noted that Tate Nicols held his own against Aaron Lynch–well that ended in a big fight and Kelly blew his stack and right now Lynch is at home–missing Wednesday’s practice and won’t be back until Monday. This is disquieting news in many aspects: 1-Lynch has commented that he really does not like South Bend that much especially the weather. 2–bad trend here, he had a lot of penalties late last year and seems a little thin skinned which future opponents will goad him into penalties. He needs to grow up a little bit or he’ll become a liability despite being an outstanding player with a great future–this does not look good.
Now I cannot tell you what the fight was about or who started it–maybe Kelly will talk about it (don’t count on it) but this guy Nicols is gigantic and maybe Lynch became too frustrated.
I’m not overly concerned with fights which happen frequently in practice but Kelly is right–you can’t lose your composure in practice because you’ll do that in games and that could end up losing the game.
ND on cruise control weekend landing 5 outstanding Commits,
# 8 Kinlaw 4 star athlete (CB ?) 6′ 175 lbs from the state of New Jersey–great pickup.
Keep it rolling–would love to see the 2 big LB’s who visited pull the trigger.
Now get all these guys back for Blue/Gold Game and stay on top of them til NIS,
ND helps itself with 2 Blue Chip Offensive Lineman Commits to go along with Steve Elmer. These guys had offers from everywhere. Helped that both grew up ND fans.
# 4 Colin McGovern 6’7″ 285lbs from Illinois
# 5 Hunter Bivin 6’7″ 290 lbs from Kentucky
Both will probably arrive at ND over 300 lbs.
Feeling a lot better about this position–believe ND wants to add one more OL.
Seems all the other recruits had a good time also.
Total now at 5 with approx 15 to go. And the 5 we have look really solid.
ND gets final commitment, a 5’10” 175 lb 4 star wr db from Arizona—–great athlete!
But–some good news, bad news here–very weird recruitment boiling down to much publicized signing at his school(grade,high–don’t know) he didn’t show up but the school band did.
Apparently this came down to the recruit wanting to go to Arizona and his dad wanting ND–if I understand correctly dad would not sign anything except ND.
So, what to make of this–if kid doesn’t want to be at ND, he will be a problem, down the road. On the other hand if he’s accepted and grows up he could start at ND somewhere in 2012.
I feel lots of problems here–but that is up to Kelly. But don’t be surprised if this doesn’t work out.
In the meantime–welcome aboard Devonte.
Seems like over 50 recruits will attend the ND/ USC game.
The latest is QB Gunner Kiel 6’4″ 220 lbs. who just de-committed from Indiana. Guess he figured he’d get killed playing for Indiana. This also begs the question if Golson is dissatisfied since ND evidently kept after Kiel.
Wish List:
Just picked 5 since not sure how staff handles 5th yr. guys.
So many and so few available scholarships–so whoever really wants ND they better jump now.