Not much. Spoiler Heard the visit went very well. Heard he really likes ND and sees a great opportunity for PT at ND. He still plans to take some visits at this point. Hopefully not many, but I think ND put themselves in great shape here and will be difficult to beat.
You could probably get a decent following charging $9.99 a month to people just by copy & posting that exact response about every recruit verbatim
Bonus, free tickets to non revenue sports for season ticket holders. Includes lacrosse, soccer, and, baseball. I'll burn my "gold card" up.
I just got the season ticket bill for my seats (well, my grandpa's, but whatever). $12k for 4 seats and a parking pass this year. We're officially done being season ticket holders at that price.
We are 3100 for two, no parking pass, and in the endzone. Nowhere near 12k but still enough to give pause. But we're stupid and will keep doing it.
Look, I get the angst. But if you guys want the bag men to continue to perform like they have the last month, you rich alumni are just going to have to pony up.
My bagman cash goes to recruiting 3 star gym rats for Brey. A $25 chipotle gift card always seals the deal.
Decent seats. 25 yard line, 45th row. The price includes an annual gift of $2k per seat. My grandpa pre-paid the annual gift portion 10 years ago for the next 10 seasons. That lapsed this year so we are seeing the big jump now. Last year was $3k for 4 seats and a pass, this year the comparable number is $4k.
It was cheaper then. I think it was only $40k. Still had to actually buy the tickets every year though.
Yeah, we were offered 10k/seat for 10 years, plus yearly ticket cost. We've done the yearly donation instead. Shit ain't cheap, especially for paupers like us.
...plus Kelly's comments on Alize don't sound too promising. Wants him to focus on school more and social media less. Should be available for Fall...maybes that's not news but I thought he would be available in the spring.
Not much in the way of news coming out of the press conference. Coleman and White moving to safety, Watkins is 100% and Cage is fully cleared. Everyone loves working out now, too.
I don't think there is anything to make of Book getting 40% reps. If he doesn't get reps, the season is over (not to mention Kelly's career) if Wimbush gets hurt. It probably would be over regardless of how many reps Book gets, and it might be over even if Wimbush stays healthy, but you have to at least prepare.
Saving this post for when Wimbush breaks his ankle vs. Georgia and Book comes in and becomes a high round draft pick.
Yeah, people would just whine that Kelly didn't prep Book well enough and rode his horse if Wimbush gets hurt. It's likely lip service anyway to keep both engaged.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: You know what other small white 3 star QB with a four letter last name with a double vowel middle bookended by two consonants came in at the end of games to lead ND back to the national championship??
Pretty sure Kelly has said before that 60/40 was his default ratio for his 1st and 2nd string QB. Even if it wasn't it would be ridiculous to wager your entire season on the health of a QB who didn't even play last year.
Spoiler Kelly expects Alizé Jones to be eligible Alizé Jones will return to practice in full on Wednesday morning. The bigger question is if the junior tight end will return to eligibility in September. Brian Kelly is optimistic on the five-star’s comeback. Asked about Alizé Jones the tight end, Brian Kelly answered about Alizé Jones the student. Because no matter how good Jones looks on Wednesday morning when Notre Dame returns to spring practice, the program’s new No. 86, who’s grown a quarter inch, added five pounds and is in the process of changing his last name to Mack for family reasons, none of it will matter if the junior can’t carry a 2.0 grade point average into the fall semester. “We want him to continue to work hard in school,” Kelly said. “He’s got to stay focused. He can’t lose focus on the most important things, and he can’t get distracted, and that is graduate and win a championship. Social media, other things that pop up in life can distract you from that end.” Kelly said he expects Jones to be academically eligible this season. Jones hasn’t spoken to reporters since revealing his ineligibility last summer, just before the start of training camp. But he has been active on Twitter, supporting the new strength program and his new position coach, offensive coordinator Chip Long. If Long can dispatch the 6-foot-4 ¾, 245-pound Jones into his offense – the Irish offensive coordinator said he’d like to run double tight end sets about 60 percent of the time – Notre Dame’s offense may have a weapon every bit as good as Equanimeous St. Brown on the outside. It’s difficult to imagine many linebackers running with Jones across formations or many safeties jumping with Jones down the seam. The tight end position, which returns Durham Smythe, Nic Weishar and Tyler Luatua to go with early enrollee Brock Wright, could use the help. The Irish got 12 receptions from tight ends in 2015, although four of those were Smythe touchdowns. Still, Jones posted 13 receptions himself as a freshman, although he’s yet to score. “So I just try in my relationship with him to keep him focused, to pay attention to detail,” Kelly said. “If he does those two things – he doesn't have all the traits yet, but if he focuses on those two things, he's going to have a really good spring. Because his physical tools are really, really outstanding.” That should show during the coming weeks, heading toward the Blue-Gold Game on April 22. It’s not that Jones didn’t practice last season while ineligible, but the coaching staff made a point to limit his work to scout team and deep reserve stuff. Jones appeared engaged in his supporting role during practices, getting on the field early during training camp and making sure he celebrated with teammates. Still, there’s no question the player who headlined his recruiting class was missing on a major opportunity to push his game, and Notre Dame’s offense, forward. Tomorrow, Jones gets back in gear. But staying engaged off the field for the next five months will determine whether or not Jones gets to show that come fall. “I'm excited for him because he's put himself in a much better position to get to that end of getting on the field,” Kelly said. “But he's got to keep doing that every single day.”
Sounds like a message about keeping it up and not so much a doubt. Kelly is worried once practice starts dude will flame out again. Also #tictoc
Brian Kelly said Notre Dame owed Mike McGlinchey better development in the weight room. Bench reps up from 16 to 24. Up 8-to-10 pounds. You've got to be fucking kidding me- this strength program must've been a joke last year. No wonder ESB's parents cited ND's poor strength program as a reason his brothers looked/looking elsewhere. No wonder last years team collapsed in the 2nd halves Jesus I'm 29 years old- lift maybe 3 days a week and I can easily rep 225 probably 15-18 times today- a D1 lineman outweighing me by 80lbs should blow by that number
Arm length has a lot to do with that. edit: Lots of guys in the teens/low 20's from the combine. http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2017/3/2/14796092/2017-nfl-combine-results-offensive-line
Watched the video. No team in America can beat us. I think we should scrimmage the Colts just to stay sharp. Just kidding, but I am excited to see more than just news. Tranquil getting beat by a HS SR on a dig route bad was embarrassing. Vaughn's quickness for his size is impressive. Wimbush looks so much better off 2 mins of film than the others. No way there is a legitimate qb competition. But If your going to run your QB you need to have the backup game ready so that makes sense to give him reps.