2026 ND Portal Targets

[StPaul_Irish]

He’s probably the best DL in the portal. Maybe the #1 overall player

Watch him sign then medically retire before fall camp ala KK Smith the elder

 

[StPaul_Irish]

Certainly among the only 1 legged players.

When Freeman picks him up at the airport and tells him to "hop in"...

Ill see myself out. Gotta go wet the bed

 

[IrishInOntario]

This revenge tour/scorched earth is going exactly how I'd expect after being an ND fan for 40 years. Miss the playoffs, lose some of your best players, whiff in the portal and head into the following season with a shittier team....

CLASSIC ND

They forgot to tell you that the scorched earth part is in reference to the self-immolation of ND's own roster. It's a revenge tour mired in masochism. While Minnesota is busy rowing the boats to .500 record, ND is busy burning the rowing team's boats to heat the practice facility so that they can save some heating money to pay the custodial staff to keep working.

Hard times in South Bend. They're going to have to fire the chefs soon and bring back the dreaded food carts!

 

[Kingbish01]

They forgot to tell you that the scorched earth part is in reference to the self-immolation of ND's own roster. It's a revenge tour mired in masochism. While Minnesota is busy rowing the boats to .500 record, ND is busy burning the rowing team's boats to heat the practice facility so that they can save some heating money to pay the custodial staff to keep working.

Hard times in South Bend. They're going to have to fire the chefs soon and bring back the dreaded food carts!

My uncle is an Usher, they pulled his one free football ticket next year and his last pay check bounced.

 

[IrishInOntario]

My uncle is an Usher, they pulled his one free football ticket next year and his last pay check bounced.

If he's no longer going to be busy, can he play defensive tackle? Asking for a friend.

If he happens to have his own equipment, from any era, can he bring that to?

 

[Irish8248]

I feel like this is karma for banning 08 multiple times .... He took his multiple accounts and DTs and went to the TT board

... The gods are not pleased and we shall sufffffffffffeeeerrrrrrrrrr

 

[IrishinSyria]

Heck of a player. He has no achilles, but Portnoy and company might just buy him for Michigan to keep him away from ND. The same is true if the Crumbl cookie people out at BYU lol.

Where are ND’s wildly successful entrepreneurs?

This might be a new disadvantage to being a small school. Sure we produce doctors/lawyers/priests/CFOs at a higher clip, but producing unicorn startup founders is just a numbers game and not really a quality of school thing.

 

[emaugust]

Where are ND’s wildly successful entrepreneurs?

This might be a new disadvantage to being a small school. Sure we produce doctors/lawyers/priests/CFOs at a higher clip, but producing unicorn startup founders is just a numbers game and not really a quality of school thing.

Speaking as a subway alum, maybe the school needs to ship some honorary degrees to the financial unicorns in the greater diaspora of ND supporters. Having said that, as a DePaul grad I acknowledge I will never truly understand what makes ND special for the kids, and I am sure honorary degrees are anathema.

 

[Dale]

Ummm I definitely do not think a lack of millionaires is any issue for Notre Dame.

FWIW apparently the Crumbl guy isn’t even the big BYU donor. He just got publicity because it’s a brand people know

 

[IrishinSyria]

Speaking as a subway alum, maybe the school needs to ship some honorary degrees to the financial unicorns in the greater diaspora of ND supporters. Having said that, as a DePaul grad I acknowledge I will never truly understand what makes ND special for the kids, and I am sure honorary degrees are anathema.

I don’t even know who that would be though. Who is the most prominent deep pocketed ND supporter? Taylor Swift since her brother went there and she’s super into football now?

 

[IrishinSyria]

Ummm I definitely do not think a lack of millionaires is any issue for Notre Dame.

FWIW apparently the Crumbl guy isn’t even the big BYU donor. He just got publicity because it’s a brand people know

Millionaires, sure.

Billionaires is what we want though.

 

[NDWarrior]

Guys like that won't sign quickly. They're what I call "microwave goods". They sit in the portal for a while, with the birds pecking away at them... Just before they rot and their valuation is virtually nothing, ND rolls in, throws the microwave on power level high and blasts some life into those leftovers.

Delicious.... Sort of.

So if I step back for a minute, knowing that we're talking Pete B., NBC contract, plenty of NIL/Collective funding, an up and coming savvy MMFF, a smart, experienced and well paid talent Dir and GM, there's no way ND and staff are just sitting around waiting for big time TP entrants to show up on campus and doing nothing.

I'm just starting to understand (at least from what I can see) that ND actually has a strategy but is being tight-lipped about it with all kinds of media pundit and player agent misinformation and distraction going on while in reality, the staff is ID'ing the 80% at 50% price targets (even maybe "tampering" / feeling out very covertly key targets more or less in this 80/50 category) while simultaneously seemingly playing the big boy portal acquisition game but only to see 1) if they can get a big name to come aboard for what ND is actually willing to pay and 2) maybe to create a buzz that all the top big time targets are coming to campus to check out ND as a potential transfer destination whereas maybe in reality actually getting most of these top targets is really not the main end point of their strategy and we help to bid up the prices that the IUs, TTUs, OK States, and ASUs have to pay to get these top targets.

I'm down with that if it works out and we bring in a mix of a few top guys like Daley but with a lot of decent DL and a few WRs who can help provide depth.

I can't think of anything else being the strategy if ND has say $6-7 mill. in allotted TP market funds, the ND Brand, and a smart and experienced staff. MMFF and that staff can't be that inept and unprepared, especially when there was no bowl game this year. Come on.

 

[NDWarrior]

So if I step back for a minute, knowing that we're talking Pete B., NBC contract, plenty of NIL/Collective funding, an up and coming savvy MMFF, a smart, experienced and well paid talent Dir and GM, there's no way ND and staff are just sitting around waiting for big time TP entrants to show up on campus and doing nothing.

I'm just starting to understand (at least from what I can see) that ND actually has a strategy but is being tight-lipped about it with all kinds of media pundit and player agent misinformation and distraction going on while in reality, the staff is ID'ing the 80% at 50% price targets (even maybe "tampering" / feeling out very covertly key targets more or less in this 80/50 category) while simultaneously seemingly playing the big boy portal acquisition game but only to see 1) if they can get a big name to come aboard for what ND is actually willing to pay and 2) maybe to create a buzz that all the top big time targets are coming to campus to check out ND as a potential transfer destination whereas maybe in reality actually getting most of these top targets is really not the main end point of their strategy and we help to bid up the prices that the IUs, TTUs, OK States, and ASUs have to pay to get these top targets.

I'm down with that if it works out and we bring in a mix of a few top guys like Daley but with a lot of decent DL and a few WRs who can help provide depth.

I can't think of anything else being the strategy if ND has say $6-7 mill. in allotted TP market funds, the ND Brand, and a smart and experienced staff. MMFF and that staff can't be that inept and unprepared, especially when there was no bowl game this year. Come on.

So fuck it, I'm done investing in all the hype and click bait. I'll wait to see what happens in the next 10 days or see and see what ND gets out of the TP period at that time. Hopefully, we're not disappointed and actually pleasantly surprised.

Hopefully will be the same or even better than last year with a more beefed up player / talent staff. The 2025 end product didn't turn out too badly for the 2025 season.

 

[CanadalovesND]

Singer confirmed that a good amount of players did make it to campus for the evening, with their visits officially beginning tomorrow.

Thompson, Daley, Atkinson, Townsend & Gilliam.

 

[JamIrish]

Singer confirmed that a good amount of players did make it to campus for the evening, with their visits officially beginning tomorrow.

Thompson, Daley, Atkinson, Townsend & Gilliam.

Did a little snooping on Instagram and it seems like Thompson was at A&M and Gilliam was at Tennessee already. Each player shared a slide of them with the university tagged. So hopefully those two made it to campus after visiting the competition which gives ND a shot

 

[BeatSC]

Ummm I definitely do not think a lack of millionaires is any issue for Notre Dame.

FWIW apparently the Crumbl guy isn’t even the big BYU donor. He just got publicity because it’s a brand people know

Those cookies suck.

 

[PolishDomer]

Singer confirmed that a good amount of players did make it to campus for the evening, with their visits officially beginning tomorrow.

Thompson, Daley, Atkinson, Townsend & Gilliam.

IE board in response to the news...

 

[drewsj]

Singer confirmed that a good amount of players did make it to campus for the evening, with their visits officially beginning tomorrow.

Thompson, Daley, Atkinson, Townsend & Gilliam.

From a football standpoint, how can you not be somewhat disappointed at the first wave here. The lack of urgency to start in the portal is the same attitude we saw them play against Miami on the field. You're literally on borrowed time with Freeman and you're not going to swing for the fences is crazy.

 

[Crazy Balki]

From a football standpoint, how can you not be somewhat disappointed at the first wave here. The lack of urgency to start in the portal is the same attitude we saw them play against Miami on the field. You're literally on borrowed time with Freeman and you're not going to swing for the fences is crazy.

I mean, we're not on "borrowed time", and ND is hosting a dude who had 11.5 sacks last year.

 

[MadMasher]

Heck of a time for Pete and his posse to go dutch. 🤑🤑🤑

 

[NYDOMER]

Does us going after Henry Daley point to Burgess being inside full time if we get him?

 

[InKellyWeTrust]

Any good news would be welcome. At this point I'm hoping ND is back channeling guys that arent even in the portal yet, but that is very wishful thinking.

 

[Irishokie]

Maybe some of Indiana’s players want more playing time after they win the championship.

 

[IRISHbluehen]

Does us going after Henry Daley point to Burgess being inside full time if we get him?

Yes I believe so, ISD feels similarly, apparently hes up close to 300 lbs. ISD was also talking about goog things they have heard about Davion Dixon

 

[notredomer23]

Say ND only gets Gilliam at DT, at least one that’s starting quality, but gets JHD. What does the 4 man front look like? Do you continue to beef up Bryce Young who’s already over 280 and slide him to the interior or just have an elite 3 man rotation playing end? Gilliam and Hughes or Burgess on the interior?

 

[NYDOMER]

Say ND only gets Gilliam at DT, at least one that’s starting quality, but gets JHD. What does the 4 man front look like? Do you continue to beef up Bryce Young who’s already over 280 and slide him to the interior or just have an elite 3 man rotation playing end? Gilliam and Hughes or Burgess on the interior?

If I had to guess, this what it could possibly look like:
DE: Traore, JHD, Bryce Young
DT: Gilliam, Hughes, Burgess, Onye, Young maybe taking a couple snaps at DT as well, I think ND will maximize his versatility

 

[notredomer23]

If I had to guess, this what it could possibly look like:
DE: Traore, JHD, Bryce Young
DT: Gilliam, Hughes, Burgess, Onye, Young maybe taking a couple snaps at DT as well, I think ND will maximize his versatility

The unknown of Burgess certainly doesn’t have me feeling great in a must win year but I have a feeling he’s going to be a stud and ND would be just fine in this scenario.

Onye getting a 6th year is imperative. Just get the lawsuit ready. Everybody else is getting eligibility

 

[peadeam]

Didn’t realize Atkinson was the Rolesville (NC) QB:



Teammates with Griffin-Haynes in the 26 class and Amir Brown and Marquis Bryant in the 27 class. So they are very familiar with his HS staff. Destined to choose elsewhere right when ND has momentum.

I didn’t realise that either. That’s not far from me

 

[Irish#1]

Singer confirmed that a good amount of players did make it to campus for the evening, with their visits officially beginning tomorrow.

Thompson, Daley, Atkinson, Townsend & Gilliam.

You posted this at 12:36AM. I assume you mean Tuesday and not Wednesday?

MF running a tight ship when it comes to info getting out certainly raises the anxiety level of many on this board.

 

[FU BK]

MF running a tight ship when it comes to info getting out certainly raises the anxiety level of many on this board.

And wetness of beds