More good news! Florida International receiver Kris Mitchell, an explosive pass-catcher, will end his career with the Fighting Irish. Today, he announced his commitment to Notre Dame
Irish pickup Kris Mitchell the WR from FIU who had a great career there and is a grad transfer. Nice pickup.
Blake Fisher to the NFL, opting out of the bowl. It will be next year's OL getting the reps and playing in the bowl game. That's probably a good thing.
Most everyone thinks he would have been better off with another year, it will be interesting to see if he goes round 3 or higher
Irish Men's Soccer beats Oregon State 1-0 in the College Cup semi-final and now plays Clemson for the Mens Soccer National Championship. We played Clemson at home and beat them 3-2 during the ACC regular season, but Clemson won the ACC Tournament. Final will be Monday night! Go Irish!
Irish travel to Milwaukee tonight to play Marquette. I expect a blood bath. They are really good, took care of the Longhorns easily earlier this week and the Irish aren't even close to Texas. Shaka Smart made a great move when he left Austin for Milwaukee.
I didn't know this till today but Tyler's sister Paige is a freshman on the Women's soccer team. Quite an accomplished High School career. She's a freshman.
It does seem like the guru's think that Riley Leonard will end up at ND and also maybe his DL teammate RJ Oben will come with him. Right now the feeling seems to be that the guys coming from the portal are better than the guys leaving through the portal in general. Rico Flores one of the exceptions along with Holden Staes.
Hartman finally announced he if off to the NFL. I'll be shocked if he goes higher than Round 5, not shocked if he goes undrafted. We'll see. Now Angeli can showcase himself for the portal. Maybe Minchey too.
He leaves with his degree and it was highly unlikely he would ever play for the Irish again even if he stayed, he was buried on the depth chart and new guys are coming.
The great coaches going forward will be the ones who can do a total annual re-build on the fly and still maintain a high level of success. Tradition, depth, the system and even recruiting to a great extent will take a backseat to daily innovation and adjustment over an 8 month period of time. Then rinse and repeat.