OK the last home game of the season, Sr day! For the record we do have some Sr's!! Mike Anello ...talk about a guy we will miss next year! Tom Bememderfer Justin Brown David Bruton ...he'll be missed but Harrison Smith will be a great replacement Mo Crum Paul Duncan ...he'll be back most likely for a 5th. David Grimes Ray Herring....Ray we hardly knew ye. Pat Kunz Terrell Lambert ...high point of his career was the pick in the MSU game a couple of years ago. Kyle McCarthy ...he'll be back Steve Quinn Asaph Schwapp ....get a real job Asaph! Evan Sharpley ...I hope he comes back we need him for depth at QB Mike Turkovitch ...not the most talented guy, but he's worked very hard Kevin Washington....Houston boy who never saw the light of day...a Willingham guy. Syracuse is terrible. I have to wonder what is the future for their program. They were at one time the premier program in the North East, a notch above BC and Rutgers. But haven't been good for awhile now. That dome they play in is a dungeon, I wonder if they have the money to improve their facilities or the desire. It would seem to me that being a state school as opposed to a Catholic school like BC that they would have an advantage in terms of diversity, and academics (in this case lower academics). But BC has passed them and I wonder if UConn will become the state school of choice, UConn has better facilities. I am hoping that this weekend is the one where we put it all together and have a good offensive game and a good defensive game. You never know how a team reacts to it's coach being fired, even if they had to know it was comming. Will they rally around him for one more game and play way above their heads or will they mail it in? Terry
Thanks for the roster of seniors, Terry. I have to wonder if Anello has used up his eligibility and if he possibly would be back just for his incredible contributions to special teams. I can't recall a specal teams player who has been as valuable as he's been this year.
Well...ElPasoTim will love this!! This weekend is the game that Manti Te'o, the 5 star LB from Hawaii, is making his offical visit to Notre Dame. I don't really know if we have a chance, since he is from Hawaii and he is also Mormon. But he's to top LB prospect in the country I believe and we have a big need. So the students are all going to wear Lei's in his honor, now that's showing somebody you really want him at ND. I wonder if his host will put a book of Mormon on his night stand!
I think Anello has eligibility. In his press conference Weis was asked about this and said he couldn't talk about it. Anello was a walk on originally.
ND/Te'o <r>Terry,<br/> <br/> I guess I should get to SB this weekend so I can help hand out Leis. <br/> <br/> Anyway.......<br/> <br/> Unless this turns out to be a super dooper overwhelming weekend I don't see this kid(Te'o) ending up anywhere except USC. If you read much about him at all, he and his family seem to be big USC fans and talks fondly about them. CW has been really great on the recruiting trail but this one may be beyond his grasp.<br/> <br/> Also I wonder what he is going to think about the weather in SB this weekend. I'm sure it's going to be just a little bit different than Hawaii or SoCal. <br/> <br/> <br/> <E>8)</E></r>
Considering that the ground is covered with the "white death" I doubt that this Hawiian is going to have a fun time. Don't think it got above freezing today.
Well he is seriously considering BYU, so maybe snow isn't that big a deal to him. But then he's mormon. You just have to figure that BYU is as far east as he'll come. It's always possible though. The thing that worries me is that he has said he wants to go on a mission. Which when they do this it's always after their freshman year in college. So even if he's every bit as good as advertised and maybe better and starts and/or plays significant minutes as a freshman, he'll be gone for his soph year and jr years as the mission is 2 years, while on the mission there is no weight room or football training facility. So he comes back as a senior (4th year) and isn't likely to be too effective and most likely would be better off redshirting. Then he plays his 5th year and I think Mormon missionaries get a 6th year and plays then. By then who knows what the scheme will be who will have been recruited while he's gone and how good they would be. He may reach his peak on the depth chart as a freshman and after that be a backup.
Terry, if he goes on a mission after his freshman year, he would return to school as a sophomore and have 3-4 years of eligibility remaining depending on whether or not he played in his freshman year. The BYU model has been eminently successful on a large scale. I don't see why it wouldn't work for one student-athlete at ND. The reality, though, is that he probably will opt for a school far west of South Bend.
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I wasn't there but I heard it on the radio. It was my senior year in HS. I did not know of the post-game controversy. That's interesting. My first-ever trip to ND was that season for the USC game, which we lost something like 30-0. As a kid, I did not like ND because they seemed to always be beating my Dad's alma mater, Purdue. We moved to Indy from NJ just before my HS senior year and my Dad took my younger brother and me up to the game. That was the day I did an about face and fell in love with ND. The rest is history.
Big News in Irish Recruiting....now Manti Te'o didn't commit to ND. But Skylar Diggins, the #3 overall girls hs player and the top guard in her class did commit to Muffet McGraw. This is probably the biggest commit that Muffet has had in a long time, probably back to when Michelle Marinovich (?) committed. She only stayed a year and then transfered to Tenn. Congrats to Muffet and the Lady Irish! Skylar is from South Bend Washington HS, so she's a hometown girl! Terry\
Great news about Skylar Diggins. I've seen her play as a soph and junior in the state finals. She's the real deal.
Good article on ESPN2 about the Notre Dame InterHall Football league. I do have a question, though the quote below notes that ND doesn't have frats and that the Hall System substitutes for Frats as the ND social system. Now from conversations with Sid, there was a time that there was no Hall system, that you got your room based on a lottery system that favored those with good grades. So what was the social system back then if you didn't live in the same Hall all four years? Notre Dame Interhall Football
During my years there (62-66) we went through the transition from "class quads" to what then was called "stay-hall". In my freshman year, there were certain dorms assigned to each of the four undergraduate classes. The freshman dorms were in the northernmost quad closest to the north dining hall. The sophomores and junior dorms were in the south quad. The senior dorms were in the south quad and close to the Admin building. The room choices for the following year were based on grades with the lowest grades in each of the soph-junior-senior classes required to stay off campus. Thus an on-campus student would live in 4 separate dorms in 4 years. We made the change to "stay-hall" in my sophomore year, and I lived in Alumni Hall (closest to the circle) for my last 3 years. Interesting story about my son's experience with interhall football. Although he walked on as a freshman, during the fall of his freshman year, he only worked out and never suited up for games. He was allowed to play interhall football for Keenan Hall. He was the tailback and his team won the campus championship 7-0. The game was played in the stadium on a Sunday afternoon. We were there, of course. The only TD was scored on a halfback pass from Brian to the receiver in the end zone. It was exciting. My son threw a TD pass in Notre Dame Stadium! I have it on video if you want to see it. :lol: I played interhall football for two years, but my experience was much less noteworthy, except for the fact that we wore the old cross-stripe helmets that you see on the great teams in 40s and early 50s.
To expand on what Sid said, your dorm was your society even if you were there for only one year. My freshman year I was assigned to a freshmand dorm but then moved to another dorm which was a "stay hall." Each floor had 3 sections and you knew everyone in your section. You knew many of the other guys who lived in your dorm since you ate together, played softball and touch football together and generally raised hell together. I couldn't play interhall football my freshman year because I was on the tennis team but I did get to play organized tackle football for the only time in my life my soph. yr. I loved it. Met my wife the spring of my soph. yr. and well there were better things to be doing.....if you know what I mean.