'25 NC S JaDon Blair (Notre Dame Signee)

[2013Irish]

Didn't they announce that students need to stay on campus through junior year? As someone who moved off at the first possible opportunity, I have no issue with JB or other players doing so, but this is an interesting development. I seem to recall people saying that Meadows was spooked by the on campus living arrangement during his recruitment this time last year.

Also, I've never heard of an apartment building forcing you to live with someone. I guess they're at capacity...?

 

[2013Irish]

I imagine the elder Blair is or is going to be a Driskell/Reaper source.

His twitter has a picture of Jadon with Roberts and Driskell at an IB tailgate. Interesting juxtaposition seeing an elite athlete in his prime next to those two soft jawed schlubs.

 

[NDMD]

You guys realize this means he has a dorm room for him that he’s supposed to be in that’s just laying empty right? This isn’t the notre dame way

This has been going on for at least 20 years. Jeff Samardzija lived in my dorm and the running gag was he only came back to check his mail and take a poop every Sunday.

 

[Rocketman84]

I imagine the elder Blair is or is going to be a Driskell/Reaper source.

Driskell is good analytically but his personality wouldn't mesh well with Jay's

 

[stlnd01]

This has been going on for at least 20 years. Jeff Samardzija lived in my dorm and the running gag was he only came back to check his mail and take a poop every Sunday.

As a true freshman though?

Also this Irish Row looks to be basically where Turtle Creek or Campus View once stood? In my experience you’d be better off in a dorm if it is sleep you are after.

 

[irishu]

Didn't they announce that students need to stay on campus through junior year? As someone who moved off at the first possible opportunity, I have no issue with JB or other players doing so, but this is an interesting development. I seem to recall people saying that Meadows was spooked by the on campus living arrangement during his recruitment this time last year.

Also, I've never heard of an apartment building forcing you to live with someone. I guess they're at capacity...?

Here’s the sitch folks

After COVID, only the freshman football players lived on campus in dorms. I’m sure they could’ve used NIL to have an off-campus apartment too, but it seemed to be required by the football staff that they live on campus for their freshman year given the number who did. Marcus Freeman seems to be a big proponent of this, and honestly good for him. He clearly wants these players to integrate into the campus community and not stay in the football bubble.

The one catch is that the early enrollees were able to use that first spring semester as their time on campus. Most would then move off campus in the fall for the start of their true freshman year. Given Blair was an early enrollee, that seems to be the case for him.

The one thing I don’t understand is that you select your roommates when you live at an apartment complex like Irish Row. It’s not a dorm with random roommates. It’s an apartment unit that you sign a leasing agreement to with your roommates. Knew many people who lived at Irish Row and they all lived with their friends. No idea why Blair is in this dilemma lol

 

[NDVirginia19]

As a true freshman though?

Also this Irish Row looks to be basically where Turtle Creek or Campus View once stood? In my experience you’d be better off in a dorm if it is sleep you are after.

Not if it’s the summer and it’s a dorm that doesn’t have AC lmao

 

[ulukinatme]

Not if it’s the summer and it’s a dorm that doesn’t have AC lmao

Is that seriously still a thing? I remember it being pretty hot in whatever dorm I stayed in for the football camp in '97.

 

[NDMD]

As a true freshman though?

Shark was a year above me so that I can't speak to, but as a sophomore he was off campus.

I can say that after his first few big games in 2005, we always knew when he was doing his Sunday Business because a brand new Escalade started getting parked out front of the dorm.

 

[Redbar]

Is that seriously still a thing? I remember it being pretty hot in whatever dorm I stayed in for the football camp in '97.

Dillon probably. At least it was in the early mid 80’s

 

[PolishDomer]

When I was going to be attend grad school, they were going to put me up in Ohara-Grace Townhomes for grad students, which had 4 bedrooms and were non-AC...i was horrified...and then a space opened up in Fischer Grad, which had AC...yes!!!

 

[domer13]

Is that seriously still a thing? I remember it being pretty hot in whatever dorm I stayed in for the football camp in '97.

No - the football team does not stay in a non-AC dorm in the summer.

 

[ulukinatme]

No - the football team does not stay in a non-AC dorm in the summer.

I'm not even talking football team. It's hard to believe in 2025 there would still be dorms that are without AC at Notre Dame. I thought it was crazy back in '97.

 

[domer13]

I'm not even talking football team. It's hard to believe in 2025 there would still be dorms that are without AC at Notre Dame. I thought it was crazy back in '97.

Just about every non-AC dorm has undergone renovations which have included putting AC in targeted common spaces (section lounges, chapels, 24 hr- spaces, etc.). But it was deemed too expensive/unfeasible to put central air in the older dorms without severely impacting the architecture/bones of those dorms.

 

[ulukinatme]

Just about every non-AC dorm has undergone renovations which have included putting AC in targeted common spaces (section lounges, chapels, 24 hr- spaces, etc.). But it was deemed too expensive/unfeasible to put central air in the older dorms without severely impacting the architecture/bones of those dorms.

I refuse to buy the money excuse when it comes to this university. They put up new buildings every year, we just pulled in $20 million for ourselves in the playoff run, they squeeze the blood from fans when it comes to season tickets and donations, and tuition is ungodly to name just a few things.

 

[Irish5Saint]

I refuse to buy the money excuse when it comes to this university. They put up new buildings every year, we just pulled in $20 million for ourselves in the playoff run, they squeeze the blood from fans when it comes to season tickets and donations, and tuition is ungodly to name just a few things.

Spoke like the typical non alum dumbass who doesn’t know how money works at said school

 

[NDVirginia19]

With older buildings you really can’t feasibly put AC into all of the rooms without completely defacing the building with window AC units. I would riot if they tore down my dorm to build a sanitized new building just for the sake of AC. You really only need it for the first five weeks of the school year

 

[Irish5Saint]

With older buildings you really can’t feasibly put AC into all of the rooms without completely defacing the building with window AC units. I would riot if they tore down my dorm to build a sanitized new building just for the sake of AC. You really only need it for the first five weeks of the school year

By October we kept the windows closed to keep ourselves warm

 

[GoIrish41]

Spoke like the typical non alum dumbass who doesn’t know how money works at said school

Spoken like a typical asshole. 😒

 

[ulukinatme]

Spoke like the typical non alum dumbass who doesn’t know how money works at said school

You got me, not an alumni, but I've got a lot of family that are. I would wager I know more about the money that flows through there than you do. I'll let you guess which room is dedicated to our family in Jordan Hall, and let you ponder why we sat with the LaBar's for 20 years. There are posters here that have sat with me in the gold seats. Just providing perspective.

We're not talking a lack of funds to build a new state of the art complex, we're talking adding some AC. Yeah, it's going to be a bit pricier given they're older structures, but you act like the University is struggling to stay afloat.

 

[MacIrish75]

You got me, not an alumni, but I've got a lot of family that are. I would wager I know more about the money that flows through there than you do. I'll let you guess which room is dedicated to our family in Jordan Hall, and let you ponder why we sat with the LaBar's for 20 years. There are posters here that have sat with me in the gold seats. Just providing perspective.

We're not talking a lack of funds to build a new state of the art complex, we're talking adding some AC. Yeah, it's going to be a bit pricier given they're older structures so, but you act like the University is struggling to stay afloat.

My father-in-law’s company has done the HVAC work for multiple new projects and renovations on campus (ND Stadium/Corbett-Duncan-O’Neill, Joyce, Compton, Shields, and multiple academic buildings and Res Halls). I’ve seen the work it takes to put HVAC into those older buildings. Suffice it to say, the university absolutely could get it done IF they wanted to. They simply choose not to.

 

[NDpendent]

I refuse to buy the money excuse when it comes to this university. They put up new buildings every year, we just pulled in $20 million for ourselves in the playoff run, they squeeze the blood from fans when it comes to season tickets and donations, and tuition is ungodly to name just a few things.

F*ck the students and their cozy air conditioned rooms. Every dime should be going back towards building the 2025-6 and 2026-7 national championship football teams.

 

[stlnd01]

With older buildings you really can’t feasibly put AC into all of the rooms without completely defacing the building with window AC units. I would riot if they tore down my dorm to build a sanitized new building just for the sake of AC. You really only need it for the first five weeks of the school year

This is the thing. It's really not an issue most of the school year, and most students aren't there over the summer (and there probably are enough newer dorms with AC to house the ones who are).
Is it really worth the time/cost/hassle to retrofit the old ones for, basically, September?

 

[irishnd31]

This thread has taken a hard left turn...LOL

 

[MacIrish75]

This thread has taken a hard left turn...LOL

The best threads always do. However, I am a big fan of the #HVACThread as a nice addition to the #FoodThread.

 

[FDNYIrish1]

Really thought a Thornton Mellon reference would get a little more traction in here. I hate the off season.

 

[irishnd31]

Really thought a Thornton Mellon reference would get a little more traction in here. I hate the off season.

 

[ulukinatme]

This is the thing. It's really not an issue most of the school year, and most students aren't there over the summer (and there probably are enough newer dorms with AC to house the ones who are).
Is it really worth the time/cost/hassle to retrofit the old ones for, basically, September?

Some of ya'll haven't spent all morning and afternoon runnin' drills on campus in June heat and then had to come back to a hot dorm room I'm just sympathizing with anyone taking summer classes or having to board in those old dorms in the summer. I'm honestly surprised to hear the situation hasn't changed since '97.

 

[Dale]

Odds he’s an II or IE member now or soon is high

 

[NDPhilly]

Have to wonder if he grows into a OLB. He’s giant and was already listed at 205 in the spring.