Class Consciousness

[Mattmags]

Here's how ND's current players and recruits were ranked nationally by recruiting analyst Tom Lemming on signing day of their respective high school senior years. Positions are the ones the players were projected to play in college. NR denotes a player was not ranked in the Top 100. s- denotes players who are projected starters for the Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl.

2003 Fifth-year options
29. s-Tom Zbikowski DB
41. s-Trevor Laws DL
61. s-John Sullivan OL
67. Ambrose Wooden DB
NR Chase Anastasio WR
NR Nick Borseti LB
NR s-Joe Brockington LB
NR s-John Carlson TE
NR s-Carl Gioia PK
NR s-Ashley McConnell FB
NR s-Geoffrey Price P
NR Dwight Stephenson LB
NR Mitchell Thomas LB
NR s-Travis Thomas RB

Exhausting eligibility
8. s-Victor Abiamiri DL
20. s-Brady Quinn QB
51. s-Ryan Harris OL
NR s-Chinedum Ndukwe WR
NR s-Jeff Samardzija WR

Left Progam
3. Greg Olsen TE
NR Isaiah Gardner DB/RB
NR LaBrose Hedgemon DB
NR Freddie Parish DB

2004 Seniors-to-be
63. s-Darius Walker RB
85. s-Terrail Lambert CB
95. Anthony Vernaglia WR/TE
NR Darrin Bragg QB
NR Justin Brown DE
NR s-Maurice Crum LB
NR Leo Ferrine CB
NR Junior Jabbie ATH/CB
Left program
NR Abdel Banda LB
NR Tregg Duerson CB
NR Justin Hoskins RB
NR Chauncey Incarnato OL
NR John Kadous OL
NR Brandon Nicolas OL/DL
NR Ronald Talley DE
NR Chris Vaughn WR
NR David Wolke QB

2005 Juniors-to-be
NR Paul Duncan OL
NR David Grimes WR
NR Derrell Hand DL
NR Ray Herring DB
NR D.J. Hord WR
NR Pat Kuntz DL
NR Kyle McCarthy DB
NR Steve Quinn LB
NR Asaph Schwapp FB
NR Evan Sharpley QB
NR Scott Smith LB
NR Michael Turkovich OL
NR Kevin Washington LB
Left program
NR Joey Hiben TE

2006 Sophomores-to-be
10. s-Sam Young OL
29. Darrin Walls CB
30. James Aldridge RB
34. Konrad Reuland TE
39. Demetrius Jones QB
41. Raeshon McNeil CB
56. Matt Carufel OL
79. Zach Frazer QB
91. Sergio Brown S
NR Ryan Burkhart K
NR Jashaad Gaines DB
NR Barry Gallup WR
NR Leonard Gordon DB
NR Richard Jackson WR
NR Paddy Mullen DL
NR Eric Olsen OL
NR Robby Parris WR
NR Munir Prince RB
NR Morrice Richardson LB
NR John Ryan DE
NR Luke Schmidt FB
NR Toryan Smith LB
NR Chris Stewart OL
NR Kallen Wade DL
NR Bartley Webb OL
NR Dan Wenger OL
NR George West WR
NR Will Yeatman TE

2007 Freshmen-to-be
1. Jimmy Clausen QB
13. Mike Ragone TE
38. Greg Little WR
40. Armando Allen RB
54. Gary Gray CB
55. Duval Kamara WR
79. Golden Tate WR
NR Taylor Dever OL
NR Aaron Nagel LB
NR Kerry Neal DE
NR Andrew Nuss OL
NR Emeka Nwankwo OL
NR Steve Pakorsz LB
NR Justin Trattou DL
NR Ian Williams DT

Note: Six current fifth-year seniors are projected Sugar Bowl starters: DT Derek Landri (51), DE Chris Frome (91), OG Bob Morton (98), CB Mike Richardson (NR), WR Rhema McKnight (NR), OG Dan Santucci (NR).

Any confirmation on which 5th years have confirmed leaving?

[LOVEMYIRISH]

It's just painful to consider next year...ugh

[UNTITLEDPROJECT]

Originally Posted by LOVEMYIRISH

It's just painful to consider next year...ugh

How many people expected Charlie to go 5-6 his first year?

[LOVEMYIRISH]

Originally Posted by UNTITLEDPROJECT

How many people expected Charlie to go 5-6 his first year?

Many, but the schedule fell apart and we had to beat 0 ranked teams.

CW had a bunch of REALLY good Juniors and a few good seniors. The upcoming Senior/Junior classes are going to be brutally mediocre at best. At least Charlie had personnel to work with in 2005 and 2006.

[Famboo28]

Yeah, next year could be tough, but think about how fruitful the years after that will be with all of the talent and speed coming in.

[ShivaIrish]

Lemming's ratings don't seem to be very good.

[Stalking_Eagle]

I'm not worried, for once we have a coach that knows what he is doing and will work his tail off to put us in the best position to win. Charlie hates to lose just as much as you and me.