'15 FL OT Mirko Jurkovic Jr. (?)

[ResLife Hero]

Offensive Guard / Offensive Tackle
Bradenton, Florida (IMG Academy)

Measurements

Height: 6'5"
Weight: 276

Rankings

Rivals: 5.5 Rating
247: 86 Rating, #50 OG, #780 Overall
Scout: #38 OG
ESPN: 80 Rating, #64 FL, #33 OG, #NR Overall

247 Composite: 85 Rating #52 OG, #826 Overall


Offers
Arkansas
Cincinnati
Connecticut
FIU
Florida
Illinois
Kansas
Kentucky
Marshall
Maryland
Mississippi State
Missouri
Nebraska
Ohio State
Purdue
South Carolina
South Florida
Syracuse
Tennessee
Toledo
Wake Forest
Western Michigan


Highlights:
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[ResLife Hero]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mirko Jurkovic Jr. has confirmed with <a href="http://t.co/bMLr8YgvJK">http://t.co/bMLr8YgvJK</a> that he's working to get into Notre Dame. Details .. ($) <a href="http://t.co/kc5XGpef2W">http://t.co/kc5XGpef2W</a></p>— BlueandGold.com (@BGInews) <a href="https://twitter.com/BGInews/status/614193845874462720">June 25, 2015</a></blockquote>
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[fightingirish26]

I like it

 

[ACamp1900]

wait, he's a solid to high three star that didn't sign with anyone now heading to ND?? Is that correct? If so, why didn't he sign with anyone until now?? backstory?

 

[ResLife Hero]

wait, he's a solid to high three star that didn't sign with anyone now heading to ND?? Is that correct? If so, why didn't he sign with anyone until now?? backstory?

Signed with OSU, but was unable to enroll. May have his academics in order now.

Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football, Basketball, and Recruiting Front Page

According to multiple sources, Notre Dame is evaluating the Irish legacy and one-time Ohio State signee, who did not enroll in Columbus this summer due to a reported academic issue. Notre Dame’s interest in Jurkovic is advanced enough that he’s attempted to improve his test scores for admission.

 

[ACamp1900]

thank you...

 

[Buster Bluth]

The number of asshats on 11W using this as evidence for Ohio State's academic superiority is too damn high.

Nothing quite like measuring the academic quality of an institution by what athletes they allow in...

 

[IrishLax]

If it was actually academics, there is virtually no chance he gets in here. If it was instead "academics" as an excuse for Urban to cut him much like how Urban claimed "injury" on the DB now enrolled at Auburn, then this gets interesting.

 

[Irish YJ]

The number of asshats on 11W using this as evidence for Ohio State's academic superiority is too damn high.

Nothing quite like measuring the academic quality of an institution by what athletes they allow in...

lol.
asshats ..... wateverz.... my concern over what OSU fans think doesn't hit my top gazillion worries.
just happy for the pick up. scholarship or PWO?

 

[Irish YJ]

courtesy of PANDFAN

Mirko Jurkovic Jr. may come home.
According to multiple sources, Notre Dame is evaluating the Irish legacy and one-time Ohio State signee, who did not enroll in Columbus this summer due to a reported academic issue. Notre Dame’s interest in Jurkovic is advanced enough that he’s attempted to improve his test scores for admission.
The 6-foot-5, 285-pound offensive lineman is the son of former Irish All-American offensive lineman Mirko Jurkovic Sr., who played on Notre Dame’s last national championship team. He died two years ago after a battle with cancer. He was 42 years old.
Irish interest in Jurkovic Jr., who played at St. Joe High School, located a mile from Notre Dame, was light early in the recruiting process until his transfer to IMG Academy in Florida. While there he blocked for Irish commitment Tony Jones Jr. and played with Florida State signee Deondre Francois.
Jurkovic ultimately earned offers from Ohio State, Florida, Nebraska, Missouri, South Carolina and Tennessee, among others. He committed to the Cornhuskers in July before his senior year, then flipped to Ohio State in December.
Notre Dame nearly offered at multiple points during the process but never did.
If the Irish take Jurkovic Jr. it would further stretch Notre Dame’s roster against the 85-man limit. If Ishaq Williams returns on a football scholarship and former walk-ons Montgomery VanGorder and Connor Cavalaris remain on scholarship, the Irish would enter training camp with 88 scholarship players, assuming no more roster attrition.
Even if Williams, VanGorder and Cavalaris all came off scholarship, which is a strong possibility, a Jurkovic addition would push Notre Dame over the limit barring additional roster deletions.
In terms of the offensive line, grabbing Jurkovic would make sense for Harry Hiestand after Jerry Tillery moved to defensive tackle during spring practice. Jurkovic could be a tackle or guard and would join a class with center Tristen Hoge and guard Trevor Ruhland.
Notre Dame has two commitments in its current recruiting class in Scout 100 prospects Tommy Kraemer and Liam Eichenberg. Both project at tackle, with primary guard target Parker Boudreaux set to announce next week.
SCOUT

 

[Grahambo]

First, LOL @ OSU for academic comment.

Second, bonus for ND.

 

[BobbyMac]

All I know is I want the FULL story on this someday.

Keep in mind, he could come in as a PWO this year.

And if this ends up being something shady OSU did to get to 85 (like the DB to Auburn) I hope Mirko sues them for the out of pocket costs and defamation of character.

Hopefully this works out. It will be good for the ND community's soul.

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[Big23Head]

If it was actually academics, there is virtually no chance he gets in here. If it was instead "academics" as an excuse for Urban to cut him much like how Urban claimed "injury" on the DB now enrolled at Auburn, then this gets interesting.

Sampson states it is a real academic issue, he struggled in the spring. He has retaken the SAT in an attempt to reach ND standards

 

[Old Man Mike]

I'm with Coach Harry on whatever he wants to do, but otherwise, I dunno. That's because even if there's no scholarship number problem this year, adding another underclassman shrinks an already small recruiting opportunity for 2016 athletes.

 

[BobbyMac]

Sampson states it is a real academic issue, he struggled in the spring. He has retaken the SAT in an attempt to reach ND standards

So this is the only possible scenario that could have happened if legitimately related to grades. Mirko's spring grades coupled with his existing SAT left him a little short of getting into OSU (Cue Steve Carrell coughing and saying bullsh1t simultaneously) He asks to retake the test to make OSU admissions happy and the OSU staff jumps on the chance to dump him. BUT what they didn't think would happen is he'd go to ND and apply. Their worst nightmare has to be that ND allows him to take the test, he gets the needed score combined with his GPA and gets admitted. Alec Baldwin's character in Glengarry Glen Ross couldn't sell his way out of that hole.

This is better than General Hospital. The world's watching Coach Meyer.


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[BobbyMac]

Kind of surprised this didn't break around the 8th. I just looked at his Twitter feed and he started following numerous ND media insiders AND... FB staff members from IU and Purdue around then.

That's a lot of smoke.

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[rtrn2glory]

best thing for him to do would be to go juco and restart the process with many more options at his disposal.

 

[BobbyMac]

best thing for him to do would be to go juco and restart the process with many more options at his disposal.

Go JUCO??? He obviously has a chance to get into ND. He goes JUCO and that's gone.

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[woolybug25]

Go JUCO??? He obviously has a chance to get into ND. He goes JUCO and that's gone.

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Reason #1,394 for why Holy Cross needs a football team.

 

[Rocket89]

BGI reporting he could go to Holy Cross and report to ND in January as a '16 EE. I'll believe it when I see it, but who knows.

 

[woolybug25]

Reason #1,394 for why Holy Cross needs a football team.

BGI reporting he could go to Holy Cross and report to ND in January as a '16 EE. I'll believe it when I see it, but who knows.

[/cough... cough...]

 

[Rack Em]

[/cough... cough...]

Why are you coughing? Getting checked for a hernia?

 

[woolybug25]

Why are you coughing? Getting checked for a hernia?

There was a quiet shrill at the end you missed. Your mother has very rough hands... cold too...

 

[arrowryan]

Reason #1,394 for why Holy Cross needs a football team.

Ahh yes. I tried pretty hard to get a football team at Holy Cross. Holy Cross would be a good option though. There is a big amount of students that transfer to ND from Holy Cross; they recently made a specific program for students who want to do that

 

[nsisk157]

Reason #1,394 for why Holy Cross needs a football team.

They do... Go Crusaders!!

I kid, I kid!! But yes, HC in South Bend certainly does need a team.

 

[notredomer23]

Reason #1,394 for why Holy Cross needs a football team.

My intramural team is unbeatable. bite your tongue.

 

[notredomer23]

Some insight as a Holy Cross student... It is really hard to transfer now from Holy Cross to Notre Dame unless you are in their program known as "The Gateway Program". It takes about 20 highly performing students or people very connected to the university who were not necessarily good enough for ND out of high school. For a year, they take classes picked out by ND pretty much and if they fulfill the requirements and get above a 3.5 GPA, they are admitted to ND.

Holy Cross is trying to be taken more seriously as a 4 year school so it is kind of ironic that they would push such a program, but it is what it is. If Jurkovic were to be in that program, combined with interest from the football program, I do not see any way he does not gain acceptance to ND.

 

[BeauBenken]

If he never enrolled, wouldn't he still have all his remaining years of eligibility and therefore be considered a 2016 recruit?

 

[dublinirish]

Report: Notre Dame Considering Adding Former Ohio State Signee Mirko Jurkovic | Eleven Warriors

lol the butthurt is real

 

[BGIF]

My intramural team is unbeatable. bite your tongue.

Don't run the spread, huh?