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I know this game isn't in South Bend so there obviously won't be any officials, but I suspect there should be some recruits on hand at the Alamo Dome on Saturday.

I saw that Aaron Green (2011 RB from Texas) will be there. Anybody know of other visitors?
 

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I know this game isn't in South Bend so there obviously won't be any officials, but I suspect there should be some recruits on hand at the Alamo Dome on Saturday.

I saw that Aaron Green (2011 RB from Texas) will be there. Anybody know of other visitors?

Don't know any names.

In some other thread yesterday or the day before I posted that ND would not be able to deal with recruits as usual as this game is off campus. I noted that recruits would have to buy their own tickets. Not so according to Weis.

ND contacted the NCAA for guidance in dealing with recruits who attend the ND game in San Antonio. The NCAA advised that ND can pay for the game tickets for recruits but can have NO contact with them.

From the Press Conference:
Q. Put a finer point on the recruit rules. They can come to the game, you can't even so much as wave at them?
COACH WEIS: No.

Q. So you try to keep them away from where the team is?
COACH WEIS: Yep. It wouldn't be like anything that we normally do at home. They can't come into the holding area or anything like that. You can give them tickets to the game.

Q. How about the coaches, is there some advantage being able to make contact with high school coaches down there? COACH WEIS: I don't know, before I answered that question I'll find out that answer because I wasn't worried about talking to the high school coaches as much as I would have liked to talk to the players. But, you're right, that's a fair question to ask and they will get you that answer before we go to practice.
 

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What a waste. Hopefully the Irish fans in the area pack the house and give them a little taste of what the game is like. Kinda
 

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What a waste. Hopefully the Irish fans in the area pack the house and give them a little taste of what the game is like. Kinda


It is a shame there can't be more contact however, Weis doesn't see it as a waste. From Tuesday Press Conference:


[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Q. One last thing. I noticed you don't seem to recruit Texas as much as I may be wrong about this coaches in the past. Is that something you hope to take advantage of here and maybe recruit there a little more?[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]COACH WEIS: Well that is really not true. You know, we have to spot recruit. We spot recruit Texas. See Mac has that deal going, that junior recruiting day, you know, where he looks down about half the state in about the third week of February. Where he brings in those 25 guys and says you take it now or you're done and they all grow up wanting to go to UT and you know that locks most of them are going. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Everyone else that goes into Texas, there is a lot of teams go into Texas besides the other fine universities in the state of Texas. Now Houston's become more competitive; they're playing top flight football. So you can't sleight any of the schools in Texas. Of course Oklahoma and everyone else LSU, all those places that go in there. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]I think in our case what we have to do is we kind of not cherry pick but we have to hand pick a certain number of guys to go after. And we're still involved with people. A few people in 2010, but many more in 2011. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Q. Charlie, kind of building in that recruiting, is that do you find Texas to be a state where you need to be on kids the earliest of any region that you go into?[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]COACH WEIS: Yeah because of Texas junior day. You know, let's face it, if you like a kid and, you know, he wanted to go there and you weren't heavily involved with him long before then, you know, you already have no chance. [/FONT]
 
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JefMaj

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Read that as we have only 3 Texas kids on scholarship - it's a priority. They (ND) are inviting about 90 - 100 kids and feel that 30 showing up will be a huge success.
 

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Next year... we need to have a game in Miami... then the Meadowlands... then in Canton, Ohio.
 

t3hjc

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38 showed up, or at least that's what I recalled hearing. If we win over any, I'd say it was worth it.
 

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Texas Recruits

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I never actually checked the recruiting page for Texas but I only see 1 or 2 recruits out of the state of Texas every year. It must be nice to not have to even leave your state to create a top 10 recruiting class each year.

Welcome Mr. Hurd and to opening up the Texas pipeline.
 
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