Recruiting even BIGGER next year for Notre Dame!?

[Irish Envy]

There has been a ton of talk of Notre Dame having up to three first round draft picks in next year's NFL draft including the possibility of Brady Quinn going #1 overall.

Programs like Miami, Texas and in recent years USC use the NFL draft as a recruiting tool with the blue chip prospects because ultimately they want to play on Sunday. More specifically, they also use it against us when talking with recruits that we are also recruiting, and rightfully so as we've been pitiful for the last 5+ years at getting kids into the NFL.

Anyhow, that is going to change next season as I mentioned we could have 3 first round picks and it's possibly we could have up to 8 players selected on the first day. Can you imagine how monsterous that will be in recruiting the Class of 2008? What do you all think about the probability of that happening?

 

[LuckoftheIrish86]

While I do agree that the results of the NFL Draft will have an impact on recruiting in 08' the more important factor I think is just our straight up performance this season.

ND landing in the NC game will be absolutely huge and will really set up the Irish for years to come

 

[jiggafini19]

Quinn, Samardzija, Zbikowski, Ryan Harris, Victor Abiamiri and possibly Rhema McKnight could all be Day One choices. That's very impressive. You're also talking about three of those guys being four year starters. Let's not forget the O Linemen that could fall into those seven rounds somewhere as well. Very experieced group.

I"m sure Weis will spin it out in a positive way while recruiting next year. Just hope everyone gets it done and stays healthy.

Samardzija could be a first round pick in two sports. NFL in April 2007 and MLB in June 2007.