Notre Dame flipped Rutgers commit Peter Mokwuah a 3 Star DL 6’4″ 300 + lbs from a small Catholic school – St Josephs in Staten Island NY. Apparently new DC VanGorder made a beeline to him right after he was officially introduced as the new DC by Notre Dame. This kid is a big body that certainly will help on the thin DL but he played at a small HS against small opponents–so will need a lot of work. looks like a redshirt. Interesting how VanGorder seemed to know about him – tipoff from his NY buddies?

On the flip side and not unexpected 4 Star LB commit Richard Yeargin Fla. dropped his commit and it appears he’s headed to Clemson. Not a great loss as we have a slew of LB’s and about 15 Safeties.

So no-one should really get excited during recruiting – the only day that counts is signing day. Sure would be nice to add 1-2 DT’s to this class – there just has to be 300 pounders in the Mid West that would love to go to ND and we can take a flyer on a kid that really likes ND.

Other News : VanGorder from the NY Jets officially confirmed as the new DC – that only took about a month for ND to clear him as fit for ND. Like him a lot because he wants a more aggressive defense. He brings a lot of Jet coach Ryan’s defensive style – just what we need.

The other hire QB coach from the Washington Redskins Matt LaFleur 33 yrs old and coached RG111 at Washington. This too took some time to clear him and all of this time consuming investigation kept him from the recruiting trail. guy is young and energetic and actually played QB in college.

I don’t know how Kelly got the moniker – developer of quarterbacks – he had 2 years with Golson and never broke him to use the laces of the football to pass. It took about 5 minutes for QB guru Whitfield to correct that.

Looks like Denbrock will get the ceremonial OC position – but, hell what’s the rush when investigations going on.

This screening applicants has been going on since the George O’Leary hire. Here was a guy that was a successful big time HC who apparently had a 20 year old resume with some inaccuracies that he forgot about or actually thought was correct–can’t have that at ND–so welcome Ty Willingham and Charlie Weis. I think O’leary was perfect for ND and could have had 1-2 National Championships – just look at what he’s done at UCF. Hope we never play him.

So just sit around for another 10 days or so for NSD.