'11 GA DE Stephon Tuitt (Signed Notre Dame LOI)

[bigedefense]

Kelly: "Nothing is over until I say it's over."

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?????? HELLL NO!

 

[IrishBlood81]

yeah...i wonder if he realized that with us getting Lynch and Ishaq he'd have too much competition? seems odd but I can't figure out why he'd switch AFTER seeing what D we're putting together.


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[bigedefense]

This is aweful. My father in law is a GT alum and he is giving me mega crap right now. I aggrivate him and tell him that getting his PhD from GT is the equivilant of getting it from Sally Struthers online courses. But, sadly, I have to admit that GT has a beautiful campus and very good academics. I say that because he won't read this. HA. Good luck Stephon, I wish you sucess wherever you go.

 

[Ironman8]

This feels like a party foul - ruining all the fun ND was having this week.

 

[Fbolt]

Reading the available info, I wonder if the HS coach is "in" with the GT staff/school/football program. Was he steered away? Just wondering.....

 

[Irishpinoy]

This de-commitment doesn't pass the smell test. Very awkward. Hmmmm

 

[WabashFalcon]

We got a chance. You're telling me that if Diaco and Kelly fly down there, he will not let them in the house?

It's time.

 

[irishandy]

We got a chance. You're telling me that if Diaco and Kelly fly down there, he will not let them in the house?

It's time.

Game on! I hope that Coach Kelly and Diaco fly down there and work their magic.
No thanks on Clowney, I am happy with Lynch.

 

[Ironman8]

Can Diaco get to Monroe by 4:30 if he left now?

 

[WabashFalcon]

Yup.

 

[johnnykillz]

5 stars. Alpha Centauri.
Big, bad defensive end.
Anger Sharks are swimming up a Song Girl's rear...

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

True...Stephon hasn't had one of Diaco's homecooked breakfasts. Yet.

 

[irishtrain]

I'm probably wrong but I think this classy young man still ends up at Notre Dame. Something tells me Notre Dame is still in play here.

 

[amgarvey]

This de-commitment just doesn't make any sense to me. Tuitt and Lynch were perfect together. They deserved their own "brangelina" style mash-up name. Ishaq wasn't a threat because what they had was magic (and he's going to be a OLB). In all seriousness it just plain sucks. They would have torn a new backside to opposing OLs for years. Sigh.

 

[Legacy93]

Reading the available info, I wonder if the HS coach is "in" with the GT staff/school/football program. Was he steered away? Just wondering.....

It seems odd that the coach and Tuitt would call together to let Kelly know(maybe thats more common that I think) ... and according to this article, his high school teammate helped sway him. I could have had this guy pegged wrong the entire time, but this doesn't seem to fit his character. I think a talk with Kelly might be just what the doctor ordered.
SPORTSCRACK: NOTRE DAME LOSES 5 STAR RECRUIT STEPHON TUITT TO GEORGIA TECH

 

[BGIF]

This is aweful. My father in law is a GT alum and he is giving me mega crap right now. I aggrivate him and tell him that getting his PhD from GT is the equivilant of getting it from Sally Struthers online courses. But, sadly, I have to admit that GT has a beautiful campus and very good academics. I say that because he won't read this. HA. Good luck Stephon, I wish you sucess wherever you go.

Has your wife been written out of his will yet?

Just remind him, you're going to help select his nursing home in the future.

Reps!

 

[Ironman8]

Love the Holtz quote:

"Son... You have two options, you can join me, the fellow ND commits and the other coaches along with the whole Notre Dame family return to glory, or you can watch it on television... Its up to you son."

 

[NCDomer]

Graduation rate is not the end all measure of a school's capability. Just because some athletes ultimately don't graduate doesn't mean there isn't a fantastic education waiting for those who want it. Georgia Tech is by all estimates a fantastic education. When ND bashes other schools on things like academics, we look small. Most schools offer great educations that will change lives, but schools can only go so far. The student has to want it. ND does a great job with this, but even we aren't perfect.

Agreed. I cringe a bit whenever I see a post blasting the education offered at USC, UF, et al. They offer pretty damn good educations. However, I think some athletic depts set up a more strict environment somewhat forcing athletes into learning. Some schools are far too lenient in letting athletes slip under the radar and filtering them towards those easy As (and I don't mean the way FSU did it, but rather curved classes filled with below median students from the school).

I applaud Tuitt for having the guts to call the ND coaches and decommit the right way. I just hope he doesn't regret his decision because he feared living so far away from home. I learned that lesson the hard way when I limited my initial college search because it didn't challenge me as much as a person being so close to home and remaining in my safety net.

 

[irishpat183]

Tough break for the Irish, but we're pretty stacked at DE. Good luck to Tuitt.

Savon Huggins would makes this pain be all but forgotten......

 

[Sweetness34]

I would rather have Ishaq and Lynch and lose Tuitt than having Tuitt and not having the other two, so for that I thank Stephon for recruiting them to ND. It will be easier to fill his void than filling the void of the other two. The other two are athletic marvels while Tuitt was going to be the brute. We can make and mold Brutes, you can't teach athleticism. While I wish he was going to be a Golden Domer, I wish him the best at GT. Too bad no one will see him play.

 

[Rhode Irish]

I didn't want this to be my first post on the board, but I feel compelled to say that something about this seems very, very strange. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a shiny new Mercedes in Coach Fligg's driveway in the near future. His involvement in this doesn't pass the smell test. I guess there is always the possibility that there are circumstances at play that we can't know about that would lead a young man to make such a decision based solely on geography, but there does not seem to be a single other reason that would make choosing GT over ND remotely rational.

Anyway, please don't expect all my posts here to contain strands of conspiratorial accusations. I've been reading the board for a while (I now use IE as my main source for information about Irish football), and I finally decided to jump in. Keep up the good work, everybody that helps supply info via the board. It is much appreciated.

 

[irishpat183]

I would rather have Ishaq and Lynch and lose Tuitt than having Tuitt and not having the other two, so for that I thank Stephon for recruiting them to ND. It will be easier to fill his void than filling the void of the other two. The other two are athletic marvels while Tuitt was going to be the brute. We can make and mold Brutes, you can't teach athleticism. While I wish he was going to be a Golden Domer, I wish him the best at GT. Too bad no one will see him play.

I agree and disagree. Just like speed, you can't teach attitude. Tuitt had some attitude. Williams and Lynch will be studs, no doubt, but there are some things that Tuitt is going to be better at. Tuitt was a great guy to have around and is going to be a real leader in any locker room. Hell, he was recruiting for us at the Army All American game, as if he'd been at ND for the last 4 years.

Hate to see him go, but like I said, Huggy would make this pain go away.

 

[irishpat183]

I didn't want this to be my first post on the board, but I feel compelled to say that something about this seems very, very strange. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a shiny new Mercedes in Coach Fligg's driveway in the near future. His involvement in this doesn't pass the smell test. I guess there is always the possibility that there are circumstances at play that we can't know about that would lead a young man to make such a decision based solely on geography, but there does not seem to be a single other reason that would make choosing GT over ND remotely rational.

Anyway, please don't expect all my posts here to contain strands of conspiratorial accusations. I've been reading the board for a while (I now use IE as my main source for information about Irish football), and I finally decided to jump in. Keep up the good work, everybody that helps supply info via the board. It is much appreciated.

It is very, very strange.....This kid was ND all over and now he just jumps ship? Maybe it was a playing time conflict? We're DE heavy and maybe he saw an opportunity to play more at GT?

 

[Kingbish01]

This makes no sense at all. Tech has the most boring offense in the country and plays in the ACC. I would understand him going to Aub, UGA, or Florida. Well I live in Atlanta so I am going to keep my eye on this kid...I attend a few G.T. games a year as perks for my sales reps. I do wish him the best though.

 

[calidomer43]

its not that surprising. He said he was going to take that Tech trip for a while. Taking it right before NSD didnt help us. Even when he played aside IShaq and Aaron down in Texas he still took the trip to GT. Plus, It is an instate school where compared to the SEC, is high in academics. Im really bummed out but w/ Houndshell committing, im not surprised.

 

[anarin]

To be honest. I always felt this kid wouldnt stay. I mean its easy to say it now... But still.

I dont think I ever read an article that made me feel he was 100%. It seemed more like he wanted something to come and take him away.

Oh well... Go Irish!

 

[TerryTate]

ND coaching staff will attempt to visit Tuitt today

 

[AdmiralBackhand]

Good news

 

[Old Man Mike]

We shouldn't kid ourselves about how "replaceable" Tuitt is going to be. He is the one guy this year that could stack O-linemen up in the face of Quarterbacks with brute force bull-rushes even though everyone knew it was coming. That sort of preternatural strength combined with an innate sense of leverage is NOT easily teachable. You see a lineman in the SEC powerhouse D-lines who can just erupt into the opposing backfield on a somewhat regular basis, and all of a sudden the offense is three-&-out. We don't have anybody like that. Most teams don't have anybody like that. Heck, even most Pro teams don't have anybody like that. Tuitt can be like that. A diesel locomotive ... and he was coming to ND. @#%&##!!!

 

[IrishinSyria]

Tech's low graduation rates can probably be explained by the fact that engineering is a notoriously unforgiving field of study. Good thing too, because it's one thing to have a history major graduate after slacking through college but a whole new bag of chips if the slacker designed the bridge you're driving on.

Still, even if the degrees are worth-while, you have to get one first. Graduation rates aren't the end-all and be-all of a good education, but they do show how committed a university is to the success of its student athletes. With under 50% of its black athletes completing a degree, it does not seem like Georgia Tech has given much thought to the relationship of student life to the athletic life.