'08 CA QB Dayne Crist (Signed LOI to ND)

[Jason Pham]

I just watched film on Crist and came away very impressed.

In the pocket, he showed great maturity, poise, and awareness, moving around the pocket with confidence, staying away from defenders, and having the ability to scramble out and make the play if he needs to.

His passing ability is equally impressive as he seems to be a progression quarterback rather than a coverage quarterback, he looks off defenders and finds the open receiver on an impressive variety of passing routes and touches.

If Dayne continues to improve throughout his senior season and shows up to the Elite 11 with the same skill set he showed in his highlight reel, I would not be surprised to see Dayne make a run for a five star rating. It will be interesting to see how our quarterback derby plays out with addition of yet another well packaged player.

[Irishknight1023]

Thought it is HALARIOUS how rivals has Crist as their #4 pro style QB. Come, on dude E.J. Manuel #1? Am I supposed to beleive that? Crist has more upside then any of those guys while having offers from the teams that are loaded at QB and only offered ONE Qb this year ND, USC, UM all had top 3 QBs last year. Rivals really giving Manuel the red carpet treatment.

http://notredame.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?ra_key=1818

[Axl Rose]

Originally Posted by Irishknight1023

Thought it is HALARIOUS how rivals has Crist as their #4 pro style QB. Come, on dude E.J. Manuel #1? Am I supposed to beleive that? Crist has more upside then any of those guys while having offers from the teams that are loaded at QB and only offered ONE Qb this year ND, USC, UM all had top 3 QBs last year. Rivals really giving Manuel the red carpet treatment.

http://notredame.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?ra_key=1818

Yeah I saw that too, I thought it was pretty funny. What exactly does EJ Manuel have compared to Crist? Crist has better stats, played against better competition, had a better offer list, is bigger, and why such a big discrepancy between Scout and Rivals? Rivals hes a 5 star while hes a 3 star on scout. Atleast Crist is acknowledged by everyone as being at least a 4 star, even though I think hes a 5.

What made it even more absurd was putting Blaine Gabbert ahead of Dayne. Nebraska was heavily recruiting Crist before he committed to ND, they even offered him before Blaine. So basically even Nebraska would rather have Crist then Gabbert.

[Doomsday Device]

Originally Posted by Axl Rose

Yeah I saw that too, I thought it was pretty funny. What exactly does EJ Manuel have compared to Crist? Crist has better stats, played against better competition, had a better offer list, is bigger, and why such a big discrepancy between Scout and Rivals? Rivals hes a 5 star while hes a 3 star on scout. Atleast Crist is acknowledged by everyone as being at least a 4 star, even though I think hes a 5.

What made it even more absurd was putting Blaine Gabbert ahead of Dayne. Nebraska was heavily recruiting Crist before he committed to ND, they even offered him before Blaine. So basically even Nebraska would rather have Crist then Gabbert.

The Manuel love on Rivals is very strange. There's an article on SI.com where they call him the perfect prospect. I can understand why they like him as he has great physical tools but they seem to be a little overboard in their affection.

As for Gabbert ahead of Crist, that should be expected. Rivals, Scout, and ESPN all rank Gabbert ahead of Crist. He's clearly the consensus #2 QB at this point behind Pryor. And I'm not sure how relavent the whole date of offer thing is. They just might not have evaluated him fully yet. Notre Dame offered John Goodman and Martavious Odoms before Julio Jones. I don't think I'll draw any conclusions about the staff's opinion of those players from that.

[GoshenGipper]

Notre Dame offered John Goodman and Martavious Odoms before Julio Jones

ND never did officially offer J.Jones. Goodman was the 3rd WR offered thought, and I've been told it was a very split descion weather to offer Buckner or Goodman as the 2nd WR.

[Pete]

I am actually surprised that Manuel is even getting recruited at all. I mean, he goes to Bayside, everyone knows that Zack Morris is the starting QB at Bayside.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Zackmorris.jpg

[Axl Rose]

Originally Posted by Pete

I am actually surprised that Manuel is even getting recruited at all. I mean, he goes to Bayside, everyone knows that Zack Morris is the starting QB at Bayside.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Zackmorris.jpg

Actually Slater was the starting QB, Don't ask me how I know that LOL.