ND sports is done for the 2020-2021 cycle. So time to abandon the Notre Dame winter topic and start a new one! ND athletes are back in summer school now. Football will do conditioning and 7x7 drills for June and July. Baskeball will be scrimmaging on their own along with weight training. Baseball/Softball I don't think are on campus in the summer, they are mostly playing in summer leagues, Cape Cod league is the best known but there are others out there in the various regions. I imagine that with football and basketball that there is probably 100% of the athletes back on campus attending summer classes and working out. I'm not so sure about the sports.
Another big recruiting weekend at ND, no verbal commitments have come out of it yet. Irish Baseball did pick up a Grad Transfer pitcher from Seton Hall. RHP Ryan McLinskey will grad transfer from Seton Hall, where he pitched the last four seasons, including an impressive 2021 campaign. McLinskey started 12 games in 2021 and held a 4-1 record with an ERA of 2.81 in 57.2 innings to go with 66 strikeouts. RHP Ryan McLinskey Grad Transferring to Notre Dame
Congratulations to 2022 Brother Rice OF/QB Jack Lausch on his commitment to University of Notre Dame. Jack will pursue BOTH baseball and football at ND. Jack is the whole package: athletic, fierce competitor, hard worker and as good of a teammate as you’ll find. Best of luck! I’ve seen Lausch multiple times at football camps, the quarterback has a strong arm and a great frame at six-foot-three-inches and 195-pounds. He’s cerebral with his reads and will give the Irish yet another option as a signal caller Baseball scholly with a preferred football walk on spot. The scholarship will stay baseball unless he plays a down, a single down in a Irish football game.
So ND is now talking joining the ACC in 2022. Had to see This coming with the proposed changes in The football playoff
Saw it on one of the Online sites. Nothing confirmed. I really don’t know how we can’t not join a conference now though. If you have to be a top 4 conference champion to get a bye we will never get a 1st round bye.
If we belong in the top 4 we'll be matched against the 12th team making the playoffs. The game before the playoffs, the top four teams played in conference championship games against teams that might have been better than no. 12. I don't find this arrangement to be that detrimental to ND. The alternative would have been to have ND sitting home while the top conference teams were all playing in their conf. champ. games. Joining the ACC right now would mean having to beat Clemson to get a bye. I'd rather get no. 12 in the first round.
Saw on one of the boards that LSU is trying to get Link Jarrett. Hope this wasn't posted in another thread.
LSU hired Jay Johnson the Arizona coach a couple of days ago. Jarrett did interview for the job though. Gotta keep up gip!
Irish pickup an OL, Ashton Craig from Lawrenceburg Indiana. He's not highly rated. ND and Michigan are his best offers, he does have a lot of offers though. He has camped at ND where the coaches got to work with him and decided to make the offer. He's our 3rd OL commit. I think they will take at least one more maybe 2 more OL. There is a group of OL (3) from Wisconsin that they covet and who will be tough to get away from Wisconsin,.
"There is a group of OL (3) from Wisconsin that they covet and who will be tough to get away from Wisconsin," Beer, brats, and cheese curds make for some pretty big uglies.
Irish pickup their first recruit verbal for the 2023 class. 4 star DE Keon Keely from Berkley Prep in Tampa Bay.
According to a 1 on 1 interview with Pete Sampson of The Athletic, Kelly is moving into his new house which is less than a mile away from campus. He's going to be able to use it in recruiting where he couldn't use his Lake House. No explanation as to how it can be used. Earlier this year, Kelly finished a different kind of rebuilding project, a second home blocks from the university’s front gates. The intentions behind the project were multiple: a home base for his family, with daughter Grace set to graduate from Notre Dame next spring, and a recruiting outpost for unofficial visits. Because the home is less than a mile from campus, NCAA rules allow Kelly to use it for recruiting purposes in a way that his lake home in Michigan cannot function. One problem with the new home? There’s no furniture just yet. Apparently, global supply chains don’t bend to the will of college football coaches.
A little shot at Oklahoma in this clip from the same article. So, Oklahoma’s got 10 race cars on the 50-yard line, right? And here, the head coach in front of you talking about how on Juneteenth the team put together a march where Max Siegel, one of our offensive linemen, spoke in public for the first time in front of the group, about the weakness of the (first-year) Moreau classes, and how it needed to have a better efficacy for all and then being on that committee to change Moreau. That’s what happens at Notre Dame. We don’t have the race cars. If you need the race cars, then that’s a great place. We’re not going to give you magic tricks here. There is no show here. There’s substance. Really focusing on that has been the game changer.