'10 NC LB Kendall Moore (Notre Dame Signee)

[IrishLion]

Why does Weis get the blame for his years, but the failures of Kelly's regime fall on Diaco?

Because there is a notable conspiracy to cover Kelly's ass whenever possible, while blaming everything on other parties, and don't you forget it!

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Why does Weis get the blame for his years, but the failures of Kelly's regime fall on Diaco?

Wasn't commenting on Weis' responsibility at all. Just pointing out that 2 MLBs in 3 years is arguably even worse roster management than the example irishfan provided.

My understanding is that Kelly gives his coordinators a lot of leeway in deciding who to recruit, and it's widely rumored since Diaco's departure that he hated recruiting and simply stopped trying over the last couple years. So, while the buck obviously stop with Kelly as HC, I don't have any issue with laying our current defensive roster holes at Diaco's feet.

I don't know enough about how recruiting worked under Weis to assign blame there. Though were I inclined to criticize him, recruiting is among the last things I'd complain about.

 

[TheChosen1]

✈️ Drue Tranquill✈️‏@d_TraNquill·

Congrats to my teammate and big bro @K_Moore8 on having his son today

 

[stlnd01]

2011: Grace
2012: ---
2013: Deeb

Diaco bringing in only 2 MLBs over a 3 year time span is worse. Especially since we were running a 3-4.

A few thoughts on LB recruiting in recent years:
I don't think Weis had a DC who lasted long enough to take the blame for any systemic recruiting failures. Diaco was here for four years.
I think Te'o was a Signing Day gift you couldn't possibly expect, so why not take Calabrese and Fox earlier in the cycle? We didn't intentionally load up on ILBs in that class. We just landed a best-ever one late.
I'm pretty sure Danny Spond was, like Shembo and Moore, a Weis recruit who signed in the transition year. But I wouldn't pin his retirement on Charlie. So, two OLBs.
On Diaco and ILB recruiting, we did lose Anzalone pretty late in the cycle, and came in second on a bunch of others that year. The shortfall wasn't all on Bob.
But, after producing Te'o and Nix, Diaco's inability to land a top-tier MLB or nose tackle - the cornerstones of his defense - the last couple of years is sort of baffling.

 

[rtrn2glory]

✈️ Drue Tranquill✈️‏@d_TraNquill·

degree he's getting is going to come in quite handy.

a little off topic, but piggy backing off of the post on using him in goal line situations offensively, i really would like to see us use some H-Back type of offensive sets similar to auburn used last year. with our depth at RB, OL, and TE coupled with us actually having an athlete at QB, I think that it only makes sense. at the very least it would be an absolute bear to defend.

 

[dublinirish]

I'm pretty sure Danny Spond was, like Shembo and Moore, a Weis recruit who signed in the transition year. But I wouldn't pin his retirement on Charlie. So, two OLBs.
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i think Spond was exclusively recruited late after BK came onboard along with Kona and Jeremy Ioane. Of course Ioane chose BSU instead

 

[Buster Bluth]

degree he's getting is going to come in quite handy.

a little off topic, but piggy backing off of the post on using him in goal line situations offensively, i really would like to see us use some H-Back type of offensive sets similar to auburn used last year. with our depth at RB, OL, and TE coupled with us actually having an athlete at QB, I think that it only makes sense. at the very least it would be an absolute bear to defend.

Isn't that what one of Luatua's rolls will be, 2015 and onward? You can always use a TE, but I thought it was specifically mentioned during his recruitment that he'd do really well there.

 

[Old Man Mike]

None of our recent past Dcoordinators had 21st century defense figured out. Try to find SPEED in the linebackers.

Councell, Smith, Spond to a degree [transitioning from safety] and then who else? Note that Van Gorder is moving DBacks down to try to rectify this deficit. {Grace is OK for speed as a MLB, somewhat due to his fast instinctive reads --- sort of like Manti made up for it the same way.}

 

[EuropeanDomer]

 

[Me2SouthBend]

Classy. Well said, good luck Kendall hope nothing but the best for you.

 

[brewdog_14527]

Pretty classy post by Kendall

 

[Booslum31]

Just fantastic. That kind of class will ensure his sucess in the future. Good luck to you Kendall.

 

[Ndaccountant]

What's sad is that if ND vacates wins, he will be brought up as one of the reasons. He is taking this the right way and I wish him all the best.

 

[Sherm Sticky]

Best of luck with your baby and your life Kendall


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[ulukinatme]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>HOPE <a href="https://twitter.com/K_Moore8">@K_Moore8</a> is going above and beyond to be better than he ever thought he could be...No shortcuts to be great</p>— Corey Mays (@coreyisamaysing) <a href="https://twitter.com/coreyisamaysing/statuses/429308421012074496">January 31, 2014</a></blockquote>
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This post kind of hurts now

 

[Old Man Mike]

Anyone who can write with that degree of style and conviction need never have had anything to do with "help" on term papers.

Like everyone else, I wish that Kendall is an elite success at whatever he sets his sails for. All these guys could use a few prayers.

 

[dublinirish]

Anyone who can write with that degree of style and conviction need never have had anything to do with "help" on term papers.

Like everyone else, I wish that Kendall is an elite success at whatever he sets his sails for. All these guys could use a few prayers.

sounds like these guys were just too lazy to do their papers. Which is really disappointing IMO, it would be one thing if ND was just too difficult for them but its another when they just didn't apply themselves.

 

[ulukinatme]

kmoore8
3 hours ago
It almost brings tears to my eyes when I think back to almost 5 years ago, a cocky dumb kid from Raleigh, North Carolina had the insight & vision to make, what has up to this point been the biggest decision of my life. Took on the challenge of a new place, making new friends, a new coaching staff, being 12 hours from home, etc.. I'll never forget that little kid or this place that made me into the man I am today. Goodbye Notre Dame, I will forever love thee. But I'm off to chase my dreams. ✌️✊ #NewBeginning

 

[NDfaninBama]

I just saw this too. Another let down this season.

 

[Rack Em]

Classy way to handle adversity.

 

[tadman95]

I assume he got his degree? Best of luck to him!

 

[KPENN]

Kendall Moore owns up to his past at Notre Dame, embraces his future - Notre Dame Insider: Notre Dame Football

His voice shudders with hope, not bitterness.
And even though Kendall Moore may not ever be able to embrace the most tumultuous moments of his recent past, the once-exiled Notre Dame football player has made peace with them.
The twist he never saw coming is how that past has embraced him.
From Notre Dame head football coach Brian Kelly, to associate athletic director for football operations Chad Klunder, to partner-in-limbo DaVaris Daniels, to ex-teammate Louis Nix, and to seemingly just about every other person who crossed Moore’s path when he was at Notre Dame …
They’re now all part of his resurrected dream, with a potentially momentous chapter of it unfolding Saturday (2:30 EST), when the 6-foot-1, now 242-pound linebacker plays for the Desperados team in the inaugural College Gridiron Showcase.
The game, staged in Arlington, Texas, is a poor man’s version of the Senior Bowl, a shot for NFL long shots, dark horses and overlooked prospects to get in front of reps from 29 of the 32 NFL teams and press for passage through a back door or maybe even via a day-three draft pick into a training camp in the spring.
“There was a while when I was thinking I’m never going to get another opportunity to strap up and do it,” said Moore, whose practice in Arlington Tuesday was the first time he had put on a helmet and pads since being suspended indefinitely in mid-August by Notre Dame as it conducted an internal academic dishonesty investigation.
“To have this chance, however it turns out, just makes me feel super blessed and very humbled.”
Moore was one of five players implicated in the probe, but the only one whose college eligibility clock, coupled with his punishment, gave the grad student no option to wear an ND uniform again. He did, however, get to keep the degree in film, television and theatre he earned last May.
Cornerback KeiVarae Russell and defensive end Ishaq Williams are expected to be repatriated in June. Safety Eilar Hardy actually resumed practicing with the team in late October and ended up playing as a reserve in ND’s final five games of the 2014 season, but will spend his fifth year of eligibility elsewhere.
Daniels, a wide receiver from Vernon Hills, Ill., left his final season of college eligibility on the table and earlier this month became one of 74 underclassmen to petition for early entry into the NFL Draft.
“There was a while there after the suspension when I had to do some soul-searching and kind of figure out exactly what I wanted to do,” Moore said, “as far as if I wanted to keep training or get a job or whatever.
“The main thing that I knew, I knew I still had a lot left in the tank as far as football goes. And when I made that choice, the whole Notre Dame family supported it. Players I played with were constantly calling me, telling me to keep working and telling me to make the most of my shot.”
But to do so that meant being an open book to the NFL teams about why Moore ended up a national storyline for reasons other than a breakthrough season on the field for the career backup and special teams stalwart.
“I’ll just explain to them that with the whole investigation ... that what it all came down to was just a violation of school policy,” Moore said. “It wasn’t a cheating scandal. We violated a school policy as far as the honor code goes and as far as peer editing goes.
“It ended up being a situation where Notre Dame holds their academics to a high standard, and nobody’s getting mad about that. We knew the whole situation, what we were getting into as far as the whole high academic prowess and stuff.
“We all understood what was going on. We all said there were mistakes made on everybody’s part, and we’re just looking to move past it and get on to the next chapter of our lives.”
The physical component of turning the page began shortly after Moore and the four others learned their fate in late October. That meant an immediate withdrawal from classes for all among them but Hardy.
Daniels and his family invited Moore, from Raleigh, N.C., to come live with them in Vernon Hills. The two began working out in Highland, Park, Ill., at EFT Performance, the same facility where ND quarterback Everett Golson and former Irish standout receiver Michael Floyd facilitated their respective comebacks from suspensions.
Moore said he was up to 263 pounds, 21 pounds higher than his current weight, at the time and struggled to get though every workout initially.
“But I never threw up,” he said, noting EFT’s propensity for getting its clientele to do so, even to the point of giving away free T-shirts to them to commemorate the occasion.
Eventually Nix, who spent his rookie season with the Houston Texans on injured reserve, joined Daniels and Moore and pushed them hard as well.
Moore, meanwhile, hired agent David Schuman, another piece to the comeback puzzle that gave him some momentum for earning an invite to Saturday’s College Gridiron Showcase.
The game won’t be at Jerry World, the Dallas Cowboys’ opulent 80,000-seat AT&T Stadium, but rather at 12,500-seat Maverick Stadium on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington.
Moore’s coach for the week and the game is former star-crossed college football prodigy Marcus Dupree, who’s ventured into pro wrestling, casino greeting, truck driving and helping BP clean up its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, among other things, since his pro football career curdled.
Dupree was the subject in ESPN’s renowned 30 for 30 series, titled “The Best That Never Was.”
“He’s actually been a good guy to talk to,” Moore said, “especially for guys like me who have some adversity and stuff. Him telling us to keep working and keep grinding, it means a little bit more coming from him, knowing he’s been through it and he’s had his own adversity also.
“I watched his 30 for 30, so it’s kind of crazy to sit and talk to him. Being around all these other guys who want to show they’re big-time players has been great too. It’s surreal to be back in the game.”
Moore’s first tackle Saturday will be the first in 427 days since recording the 37th and final tackle of his Irish career.
“I’m working at (middle linebacker), but also doing all the special teams things, which is kind of what I’m used to at Notre Dame,” he said. “I’m making sure that I’m showing all my versatility. I know in the NFL, there’s definitely a spot for special teams guys out there. So I’m just doing my best to show I can run and hit.”
And Kelly and Klunder are making sure he’ll have a chance to do it again at ND’s Pro Day this spring.
“We had a chance to talk after their season ended,” Moore said. “Coach Kelly told me they’d welcome me back with open arms, and that I’m still a Notre Dame guy, a Notre Dame grad.”
And it’s a label he wears proudly, despite how it all ended
“I do feel we were treated fairly within the situation,” he said of the investigation and punishment. “It was really tough, as far as all parties. Everybody was kind of stuck in a hard place, and with Notre Dame being the academic school that it is, I expect them to not bend anything for us.
“When teams ask me what am I most proud of or what’s my biggest accomplishment of my life, I’m constantly letting them know it’s graduating from Notre Dame. At the end of the day, it didn’t work out the way I wanted it to.
“But I still had achieved the ultimate goal that I wanted. And now that I’m getting a shot at the NFL, and I’m loving every minute of it.”

 

[Henges24]

Best of luck to him. I remember he praised ND after he graduated and owned up to his mistake on Instagram. Although he may never make it in the NFL, he does have that degree which will guide him to a good life. Good luck Kendall!

 

[Redbar]

Good luck and God Bless Kendall. It is clear that you 100% got what ND is aiming to do- educate and develop kids into mature thinking adults. Get after em in Arlington! We are...

 

[Southside Sully]

Best of luck to him.. A breath of fresh air to read that. Good to see he isn't bitter, and doesn't feel entitled as so many people his age seem to be. I wish him luck and hopefully he can crack a practice squad.

 

[ulukinatme]

That is a refreshing story. Do feel a little bad for Moore. He messed up, but unlike the others he didn't get a shot to come back and atone. It's good that he got his degree at least, even if he doesn't get a shot at the next level, he always has that to fall back on.

 

[dublinirish]

not sure if this was mentioned but Moore was invited to minicamp tryouts by the Titans.