And I can't find the article on any site now. I thought it was on ISD but can't find it there or anywhere. I have a link but it doesn't work and doesn't give me any indication what site it came from. I've googled the title, author and such and don't find it either. I found the article in the wee hours of the morning so it may have been become a premium article. I don't know. But I do have the article and will post the list in a thread of it's own.
#1 priority to me would be DL/OL.
#1 Priority to me is a PAIR of stud OTs, Henderson and Hurst.
Smitty prefaced his list that he was only including recruits with a reasonable chance of coming to ND. He noted you will not see several prominent names that have ND offers because he did not feel ND was a viable candidate - at that time. He did name a couple of Ols in the middle of his list - no "H"s.
JC is only a Junior and Crist has at least 3 years left...Nate is fine at 3rd string until we bring in a stud next year! QB is low priority in my mind. Am I missing something?
Most definitely missing something. Put aside Clausen leaving early for the Draft.
Do you remember how Pat Dillingham got to be the starting QB for ND in '02?
How the 9th ranked Irish lost to unranked USC 10-0 in '98?
Deju vu on New Year's Day in Gator Bowl against GT?
Recall Tom Krug filling in for an injured Ron Powlus late in '95 then learning before the bowl he had a congenital neck problem and his sports career was over? Powlus played without a backup in the Orange Bowl.
How 'bout The Game of the Century in '66? Bubba Smith knocked out Hanratty in the 1st Q. Backup Coley O'Brien had just been diagnosed with unregulated diabetes. Medical staff fed him candy bars trying to adjust his sugar throughout the game.
ND has had years where they're flush at QB and a kid named Montana was 7th string. They've also had years where they were thin and one OR two injuries wiped out the scholarship players.
I liked Nate in the Spring game but he was throwing to Ragone in garbage time against walkons and 4th stringers.
ND is two snaps or two xrays from starting a walkon football player at QB.
Wasn't UCLA a year or two ago using a 5th string QB because of a calamity of injuries?
Look at Boston College right now.
Baltimore RB Tom Matte was the FIRST QB to wear an armband of plays. ALL the Colt QBs had gone down with injuries so they pressed him into service. He didn't know the plays so they taped his forearm and wrote the plays on it for him to call.
