Recruiting 2007

Just some brief thoughts.

First, Greg Little and Justin Trattou are losers. According to Mike Frank, who is not one to cast aspersions, both were asked by the coaches they eventually committed to (Butch Davis and Urban Meyer respectively) not to tell Weis that they were being recruited. Of course, this means that they parents were also in on it. Greg Little also told the ND coaches the night before that everything was ok and he would commit to ND in the morning. Classy.

I'll give the class a solid B. The defection of the Littles ruined what would have been the best offensive recruiting class in the nation. Even without them, a backfield of Clausen, Allen, and Hughes with a Kamara and Tate and wide receiver and Ragone at tight still make up the most balanced offensive skill class. While Dever and Romine will almost definitely start at some point for ND, a class of only two offensive linemen is positively Ty-esque. If Ragone and Allen can get back their pre-injury speed, the ND offense if going to be a thing of beauty.

Defense is where the Weis whiffed. Safety was the only position where we attained our goal. Gary Gary continues our trend of attracting top cornerbacks; however, it would have been nice to sign two. While Ian Williams is just what the Irish needed at DT, we shouldn't have needed to bring Nuss and Nwankwo over from the offensive line. LB is slightly less in disarray, since Neal looks to be very much, while two of Smith, Nagel, and Paskorz should make valuable contributions.

I would like to end this post with an observation made by one Sean D. Notre Dame has a 100% failure rate of people named Greg and Chris with the same last name. Clearly this is losing proposition. My only hope is that a similar situation doesn't develop among players with the last name of Smith. Losing, Scott, Toryan, Harrison, and Brian would be a little much.

Oh, and Anagramticus informs me that Johnny Rico = Inch Nor Joy. I don't know what that means, but I imagine something terrible.