'14 MA ILB Connor Strachan (Boston College Verbal)
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Ugh. Not again.
Why would he jump on that sinking ship this early unless ND and Stanford gave him a definitive "no"?
Irishnuke
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Guess that decision was made.
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It's an excellent school, great campus, good place to live, and it's close to home for him. They actually have a decent class so far this year. He should have an opportunity to get significant playing time pretty early in his career. I think Addazio was a pretty awful choice for them, and I don't know how successful the team will be in the coming years, but there are places far worse to be than BC.
This.
They've also been churning out studs in the LB department for awhile from Herzlich to Kuechly to a few decent ones now.
Could just be holding a spot while the rest of his recruitment plays out.
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OK, now that he has committed elsewhere, can I say that he has a face and neck that just scream steroids? Not that he's doing them, just sayin', that dude has a Bill Romanowski look all over him LOL.
I was listening to Teddy Bruschi give an impassioned little speech to Ivan Maisel yesterday about teams not needing to impress recruits with fancy facilities, that if they wanted to win they needed (talented) guys that just LOVED the game, regardless of measurables. In my mind, I was thinking about this kid. He plays like he loves the game. 3 star or not, I would not have minded at all if he suited up for the Irish...
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A commitment to BC doesn't exactly take ND out of it.
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So, this pretty much means Niles Morgan is all ours?
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His uncle played at BC, so this doesn't surprise me.
That's valid for undergraduate admissions and head coaches but I'm having difficulty remembering BC decommitments to ND since the Leahy entourage arrived.
Maybe it's the hour ...
Does he have the course load
Does he have the course load
needed to get into ND? The past two recruiting classes, ND was in on kids from Crete-Monee and neither one could get in because of the Core classes needed.
Does he have the course load
needed to get into ND? The past two recruiting classes, ND was in on kids from Crete-Monee and neither one could get in because of the Core classes needed.
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I don't quite see the logic there
Ok, you got my interest with the 'BC decommitments to ND since Leahy' comment.
I assume that you are referring to Angelo Bertelli (maybe I shouldn't assume).That's an old story-but it isn't true. Bertelli was a frosh at ND in 1940. Leahy didn't show up until 1941. ND got Bertelli BEFORE Leahy arrived.
Leahy did try to recruit Bertelli for BC but lost out to the Irish
On the chance that I'm making a wrong assumption and you weren't referring to Bertelli, here are the players from NE who were in Leahy's first ND frosh recruiting class in 1941:
Jim Mello FB RI
Frank Cusick E RI (KIA in WWII)
Jim Yonakor E Ma (AA & 1st Rd draft choice)
Jack Zilly E Ct
Gerry Cowhig FB Ma
George Tobin G Ma
Boley Dancewicz QB-twice named the top Prep HS player in New England came in the 1942 ND Frosh class(with Irish greats like Lujack and Sitko)
Leahy always kept a great pipeline to Mass. players
In 1951 (ten years after he arrived at ND) Leahy stole Frank Varrichione T and Jack Lee T (who's dad ran the Boston Gardens)-both were initially committed to BC and ND taking them away caused some bad blood
As an aside, ND had a player named Ted Williams (I swear)-frosh class of '37, played on the '38 Irish. Ted transferred to BC and Frank Leahy the next season(same year a baseball player with the same name showed up in Boston). This Ted Williams went to the NFL after BC
BC's post WWII teams were loaded with plenty of Irish players who transferred from ND:
Ed Clasby (scored a td for the Irish in Fenway Park vs Dartmouth)
Art Donovan-NFL Hall of Fame, Lite Beer commercial fame
Robert Palladino-drafted in NFL
Al Cannava-played in NFL
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