David Wolke has left the program. I would assume that he could see the handwriting on the wall, I think Sharpley moved ahead of him in Spring Training and with Frazer and Jones comming on board this fall you could see him moving down the depth chart. While I personally would have told him to stay unless he truly thinks he has what it takes to start on a Div1 team and to make it to the NFL. Because he's giving up the ND degree that he's bound to less than a year away from obtaining. Good Luck to you David.
I guess he could follow Matt Loveccio on to a great college and pro career. I'm with you Terry, just where is he going to go and with a year left, who's in a hurry to sign him?
I don't understand it. SC stacks up HS AAs like cord wood. We seem to get more than our share of this.
8) Actually, this happens all the time. You just don't hear about it as much, because those other places aren't Notre Dame. The last time that I looked, Nevada-Las Vegas was full of ex-Trojans and ex-Bruins, including the QB, who had been a HSAA from the same USC class as Matt Leinert. Remember two years ago when UNLV beat Wisconsin? That was not an accident. Fat Man Robinson was the AD over there and taking Pac10 transfers was part of his strategy... These kids and their daddys have super-inflated opinions of their abilities that are reinforced by the recruiting process. Now I don't know about you guys, but I was amazed that David Wolke was ever offered a scholarship at Notre Dame. He was a real QB, which was an improvement over Boob Davie's QB recruits, but the truth is: guys like that are a dime-a-dozen. The Mountain West Conference is full of them. The Irish couldn't do better than that? Well. Charlie is now doing what most of the Pac10 does: he's recruiting and stacking HSAA/super QBs four and five deep. If you want to pass, thats the way its done and he's doing it... We should be able to retain Evan Sharpley as the backup, because he's a baseball player who knows he's got a great deal with a football full-ride. Once Jimmy Clausen gets there, however, open warfare for the position should begin between at least three former HSAAs and we'll probably lose one of them at that time... ...................IMHO........JO'Co
Both Wolke and Darren Bragg were recruited because the old staff whiffed on all of their top targets due to their arrogance. At that time they were after amongst others Brian Brohm and Anthony Morelli, but TW wouldn't offer them unless they made a trip to South Bend to work out for him. None of the top guys, who btw already had offers from top programs without making a trip to get them, ever bent to his demand. So in the end we signed Bragg who had very little in terms of QB skills (think poor mans Caryle Holiday) and Wolke who had scholarship offers from such places as Middle Tenn State, East Carolina,etc. At the time Quinn was an incomming freshman and while he was a good prospect comming out of high school he was not considered one of the top 5 or maybe even the top 10 QB's in his class. So none of the top guys like Brohm would have been "scared" off by his presence in the class ahead of them. It was just an another example of TW's poor recruiting philosophy.
Wolke <r>It's funny but I was thinking about this kid the other day when I was watching the game tape from last year when he came in for a few plays of mop up duty at the end of the game. I was thinking then that he would probably transfer with the QBs ND has coming in. <br/> <br/> JO'Co, is right, we just hear about it more because it is ND but in reality, it happens frequently at other schools as well. The medias just loves taking shots at ND. <E></E></r>
:roll: Looks like Charlie gave David Wolke the old New Jersey Kiss O'Death. He asked him to move to running back on a team that now has several former HSAA running backs. That's a very polite way of saying that "Yer not in our QB plans anymore...not even running the scout team." How many players are left from Tyrone's last class? About 8? The dead wood is being culled and better players are taking their place... BTW- If I was one of the dead wood, I'd hang on like grim death...especially if I had been as close to a Notre Dame degree as Wolke, but to each his own... ................JO'Co