Well it looked OK in "Preview" but the photos disappeared when I click on Submit. I can see the photos as I Edit this post.. Terry, what's the problem?
Jack: Webshots (like Tripod and Geocities) does not allow external linking. Linking to another site increases the bandwidth use of that site which can result in higher maintenance costs. This is why some sites don't let you do it. They actually refer to it as "theft" (of their bandwidth).
I read where AJ Hawk was at the Blue Gold game (Not the Scarlet Gray game?) yesterday. Someone said that he really is in love with Quinn.
I was at the '81 spring game, Jerry Faust's first. The attendance was around 31,000. When Brian came by the lake yesterday after attending just the first quarter of the game (He has 3 kids 4 and under, and they melted down after one quarter), he described the crowd in the stadium and I guessed around 40,000. Wow! What makes it even more significant is that the weather forecast was dim and people came anyway. In '81, the weather was perfect.
Thanks for the explanation Bob. As I could see the photos when preparing the post on th Skybox in the Preview Mode and in the Edit Mode I had assumed it was some other problem. Now I know. Anyway it was a nice move (Walker's) on an quick, tough tackling safety.
Anyone see Dodd's reaction <r>Anyone see Dodd's reaction to Claussen coming to ND? <br/> <br/> <URL url="http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/9393293">http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/9393293</URL></r>
As yes, the same folks who called ND irrelevant, who claimed that ND could no longer recruit the top athletes are now forced to change their tune. Now when ND gets the top recruits there's something not "right" about it. It's great when someone like this clown writes about our recruiting of a top HS athlete. It just gives us more exposure and credibility with other top HS athletes. Perhaps the Clausen family is excited because they know the guy who wanted to be Reggie Bush's agent. Maybe someday he'll be wearing the pimp suit and showing the earings like the top picks at the NFL draft this weekend. Bet Dodd would never comment on their display of excess.
I don't totally disagree with Dodd's take. This kid hasn't been raised; he's been engineered. I read one article that claimed he has been held back... twice. I'd be willing to bet that is for his athletic development and not for scholastic issues. I'm not down with displays like that at all. This family has set the bar mighty high.
While any top recruit has a target on his back in terms of being the next ...who ever. I'm glad we got him, he has as good a chance of developing as the next guy. Both of his brothers were hardly failures, they were both good college QB's. Casey was a 4 year starter, maybe he wasn't Peyton Manning but he was a very good player, Rick was a good college QB and a kid with a good attitude. He could have been a Lovecchio or a Chriisy Olsen and whined and sulked when he wasn't "given" the starting job. Instead he was a team player who did his best when he was put into the game. Not to mention that unlike Mr. Leake, Mr. Clausen gave nobody any problems at Tenn. Terry
Doc wrote: How right you are about that fact. I don't like the fact that we did not get Jimmy. I am not going to play the sour grapes card. I will, however, voice a few opinions. Casey was an average QB at best. He was given every opportunity at Tennessee to show what he could do... every opportunity except for two, that is. He was not given a great QB coach to develop the talents he had. He had an idiot for an offensive coordinator. Other than that, he had every opportunity. :wink: Rick, though he thought of himself as better than Casey, was a great leader, but a half a$$ed QB. :shock: He could rally the team and then throw up a lame duck in the next play. Jimmy, if he had chosen Tennessee, would have had the disadvantages that Casey suffered through lifted. He would have a great QB coach and offensive coordinator in Cutcliff. Coach Cut has developed some great QBs. Some, like both Mannings, would have excelled without him. Others like Andy Kelly and Heath Schuler would not have. Jimmy has a great support team there at ND. I am sure that he made the best decision for Jimmy. I wish that he had chosen Tennessee. I wish him well in every game he plays unless he finds himself playing against Tennessee of course.
Re: Dodd There are always going to be numbskulls like him taking shots at ND. The difference from a couple of years ago is that, instead of getting angry because of frustration with the program, we now have an optimistic outlook and can smile when reading junk like Dodd's column. I put him in the category of the Mark Mays of the world. When we were down (according to our standards), they hid in the midst of the pack by writing and sounding like everyone else. Now that we are on our way back, the real ND haters like Dodd and May are separating themselves from the pack and showing their true colors. The one thing that bothers me is the limo. Too showy for my taste. I wish they had not done that. Other than that, I agree 100% with Terry's assessment directly above this post.
Sid... <t>Agree on the limo but from all I read he is a class kid and we are fortunate to get him. Cannot wait to see the next ones that join the program.</t>
4.26 The Rock - View From Afar A look at how Notre Dame is being viewed around the country, from places where love has been rare. Dennis Dodd, CBS Sportsline Notre Dame is back in terms of success on, off and around the field. This was the biggest "get" of the Charlie Weis era. In less than one and a half years on the job, Weis has won nine games, coached up Heisman frontrunner Brady Quinn and won over the hearts of Domers everywhere. As Clausen himself put it, Weis is why the quarterback came to Notre Dame. Tom Beaver, GoBlue Notre Dame's Junior Day this past winter had at least a dozen top 100 type kids from around the country, whereas U-M's Junior Day had 3-4, all from the Midwest. U-M's Spring Game -- 2-3 top kids, all Midwesterners again ... Notre Dame will again have 12+ (maybe as many as 20), again from all over the country. My worry: if U-M loses all three top road games this season, which it very well could -- at ND, at PSU, at OSU ... recruiting will really get tougher. If any of you, like me, are starting to hear a low-grade sucking sound all the time -- that could be the sound of ND sucking up top Midwest recruits ... ND beats USC for the Nation's #1 HS QB, who is from Southern Cal ... think about that one a second. David Lassen, VenturaCountyStar.com It's one more affirmation Weis is going to be a big-time success in South Bend. It's one more indication the Irish are back at the top of the heap in the recruiting wars, not by themselves, certainly, but in that small group of the most elite. And it would certainly seem to indicate the USC-Notre Dame series just got a little bit hotter. USC, after all, rebuilt with a coach with an NFL background who came in, recruited like mad and started turning out exceptional quarterbacks (among other talents). Notre Dame has upped the ante with a coach who had a more successful NFL background, appears to be recruiting like mad (even in USC's backyard) and certainly seems to be heading in the direction of turning out exceptional quarterbacks (among other talents). Even better, for Irish fans and more depressing, for the USC faithful is that Weis and Notre Dame plucked this quarterback out of USC's back yard, after Clausen at one time apparently favored the Trojans. Mike Farrell, Eagle Action (Fredo) How big is quarterback Jimmy Clausen's recent commitment to Notre Dame? It's A-Rod to the Yankees, T.O. to the Cowboys and Shaq to the Heat. It's the Great One to the L.A. Kings, Tiger winning the Masters and Hagler-Hearns. In the college football recruiting world, this is as big as it gets. When's the last time the nation's most hyped quarterback in years committed to the nation's biggest and most recognizable football program? When was the last time a high school football player committed, and it was mentioned on SportsCenter as a big deal? Who else has had numerous national television features done on him before he even threw a pass his senior year? The LeBron James of high school football, that's who. What Clausen's commitment does for Notre Dame is obvious. It puts the marquee football program back on center stage and numerous blue-chip recruits will eventually follow Clausen to South Bend. It improves Notre Dame's chances of winning a national title even if Clausen never throws another pass. Clausen's commitment enhances Charlie Weis' reputation as a great recruiter and coach, and it leaves many scratching their heads at what Ty Willingham and Bob Davie were doing. Basically, it puts Notre Dame football where it expects to be -- on the lips of every college football fan. In the meantime, the echoes are waking in South Bend. Notre Dame is back amongst the elite in college football recruiting -- the way it should be. Allen Wallace, Superprep Whether Clausen is a great quarterback in college or not, they are once again competing with truly elite programs for truly elite players. The bottom line is that Notre Dame is back. Colin Cowherd, ESPN Radio You have to be blind or in severe, irreversible denial to not see ND recruiting is back in a big way. Tom Luginbill, ESPN.com Even after a top-five 2006 recruiting class, Jimmy Clausen's commitment is the biggest piece of the puzzle as to the future success of Charlie Weis at Notre Dame. Michigan Live The pied piper of the Fighting Irish football program continues to reunite and reignite all of Notre Dame nation. He isn't afraid to talk about capturing national championships and producing Heisman Trophy winners. One thing's for sure. The infectious attitude from Weis is spreading far and wide. LA Daily News Clausen's decision, along with the possibility of Tyler following him to South Bend, could make Notre Dame the front-runner to secure the nation's top recruiting class in 2007.
Larry, You have your e-mail registered as leversberg@houston.rr.com and it is rejecting mail from The Skybox. You chose to receive a message anytime someone replied to the jimmy Clausen topic and we are getting Mail undeliverable messages.
There is no doubt to me that Charlie gets what it's going to take to be successfull at Notre Dame. Willingham never quite got that, he thought that he could cherry pick from the top players, his recruiting list was always very short and he had no plan B. Result was he got one good class based on the good karma residule from the 2002 season, after that he could never really close the deal on the top players and I was always reading that Recruit A was hoping to hear from ND, but he'd heard from Stoops, Brown, Carr, Tressel, etc. Charlie will be out on the road all month, getting face time with the big players. It will never be as easy for Charlie as it is for Mack Brown or Pete Carroll, but he's willing to put in the extra work to get us back to where we want to be. Terry
Before this week I wouldn't have gotten your post Sid, but I watched My Name is Earl for the first time! Pretty funny.