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two local kids from Michigan here visiting ND this weekend:

11/18/17 Offer Colton Alexander Quarterback Grand Blanc Bobcats (formerly Woodberry Forest, VA)
11/18/17 Visit Kortez Toles Cornerback Grand Blanc Bobcats

Alexander has an offer apparently

https://thedzone.com/businesses/notre-dame-fighting-irish

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Grand Blanc 2019 QB Colton Alexander is visiting D1 Program on 11/18/2017 <a href="https://t.co/Ojwnra37Uf">https://t.co/Ojwnra37Uf</a> <a href="https://t.co/WPmrueaH7j">pic.twitter.com/WPmrueaH7j</a></p>— The D Zone (@TheD_Zone) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheD_Zone/status/930816868822278144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Alexander's old man is his HC and they moved to Michigan from Virginia at the start of the season

Grand Blanc hires new varsity football coach Clint Alexander - MLive.com

Didn't get a chance to see them play this year but I'll try next year for sure. They came up short in playoffs versus perennial powerhouse Clarkston who are now Div 1 finalists.
 
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two local kids from Michigan here visiting ND this weekend:

11/18/17 Offer Colton Alexander Quarterback Grand Blanc Bobcats (formerly Woodberry Forest, VA)
11/18/17 Visit Kortez Toles Cornerback Grand Blanc Bobcats

Alexander has an offer apparently

https://thedzone.com/businesses/notre-dame-fighting-irish

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Grand Blanc 2019 QB Colton Alexander is visiting D1 Program on 11/18/2017 <a href="https://t.co/Ojwnra37Uf">https://t.co/Ojwnra37Uf</a> <a href="https://t.co/WPmrueaH7j">pic.twitter.com/WPmrueaH7j</a></p>— The D Zone (@TheD_Zone) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheD_Zone/status/930816868822278144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Alexander's old man is his HC and they moved to Michigan from Virginia at the start of the season

Grand Blanc hires new varsity football coach Clint Alexander - MLive.com

Didn't get a chance to see them play this year but I'll try next year for sure. They came up short in playoffs versus perennial powerhouse Clarkston who are now Div 1 finalists.

I think that was Greer Martini's high school, so if the dad was a coach there they might know Greer.
 

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two local kids from Michigan here visiting ND this weekend:

11/18/17 Offer Colton Alexander Quarterback Grand Blanc Bobcats (formerly Woodberry Forest, VA)
11/18/17 Visit Kortez Toles Cornerback Grand Blanc Bobcats

Alexander has an offer apparently

https://thedzone.com/businesses/notre-dame-fighting-irish

Alexander's old man is his HC and they moved to Michigan from Virginia at the start of the season

Didn't get a chance to see them play this year but I'll try next year for sure. They came up short in playoffs versus perennial powerhouse Clarkston who are now Div 1 finalists.

My guess is the offer is a typo but if he has an offer, it must be for kicking. He's not the starting QB for Grand Blanc unless he was hurt earlier in the year. He was the K/P for Woodberry Forest last year.

Dad coached Martini, Prosise & Randolph.
 

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My guess is the offer is a typo but if he has an offer, it must be for kicking. He's not the starting QB for Grand Blanc unless he was hurt earlier in the year. He was the K/P for Woodberry Forest last year.

Dad coached Martini, Prosise & Randolph.

So two guys that would probably speak well of the program and one who is suing the school. Lets hope he talks to the former and not the latter.
 

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WR Board (2-3 guys)

Offered
.9881 4* Bru McCoy - CA - FAR - 4/18/16 & 6/18/16
.9843 5* Arjei Henderson - TX - FAR - never visited
.9679 4* David Bell - IN - 2h40m - 10/15/16 & 4/2/17 & 9/9/17
.9605 4* Kyle Ford - CA - FAR - never visited
.9602 4* Isaiah Williams - MO - 5h35m - 3/25/17
.9568 4* Marquez Beason - TX - FAR - never visited
.9528 4* DeMarcco Hellams - MD - FAR - never visited
.9241 4* Joe Ngata - CA - FAR - never visited

Not Offered
.9645 4* Cameron Coleman - MO - 6h - 11/19/16
.9588 4* Marcus Washington - MO - 5h40m - never visited
.9499 4* Lance Wilhoite - TN - 7h - never visited
.9394 4* Kendrell Scurry - TN - 7h20m - never visited
.9364 4* Trey Knox - TN - 7h20m - never visited
.9186 4* TJ Sheffield - TN - 7h20m - never visited
.9144 4* Jalani Williams - MO - 6h - never visited
.8856 3* Jameson Williams - MO - 5h50m - never visited
.8825 3* Bryce Kirtz - IN - 2h45m - 10/15/16 & 10/29/16

For the 2018 season we have...

SR Equanimeous St. Brown
SR C.J. Sanders
RS JR Miles Boykin
RS JR Chris Finke
JR Chase Claypool
JR Kevin Stepherson
RS SO Javon McKinley
SO Michael Young
RS FR Jafar Armstrong
FR Kevin Austin
FR Micah Jones
FR Geordon Porter

That's 12 players committed for next season before transfer, NFL draft (St. Brown), and other factors come into play. From the way we are still chasing Keys and St. Brown it looks like we might take one more and then we would have 12-13 WR's next season which would be a lot of depth and talent. The 2019 class would have to be 2-3 guys because of the number of bodies at the position. It seems like this is a great position to be in because Delvaughn Alexander, Chip Long, and co can chase the best of the best starting with David Bell. I think David Bell is a huge recruit that we need to win over because it would be tremendous start to the WR class and he's a big time talent. I also think Delvaughn needs to spend some time in Missouri and Tennessee with all of that talent down there. Hopefully the offer list grows but most importantly we get 2-3 studs for this class!
 

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Other WR's they are watching/recruiting:

4* - Mycah Pittman - Offer Watch
4* - Kam Brown - TX - Current UCLA commit - Will end up at Bama or ND
4* - Munir McClain - CA - Brother has ND offer, originally from GA.
4* - Nolan Groulx - NC - Duke offer
3* - Maurice Massey - MO - Visiting for Navy
3* - Genson Hooper-Price - TX - pure RKG - 6-4 10.9 100m
3* - Craig Young - IN - Visited multiple times. 6-3 10.6 100m
3* - Cam Phillips - OH - Opening Cleveland WR MVP
3* - Khali Saunders - IL - Immaculate Conception - Visited
3* - RJ Hart - PA - Visited / CB from Loy
3* - Ainias Smith - TX - Visited
3* - Corey Thomas - PA - Central Catholic
3* - Kyren Williams - MO - St John Vianney - Visited
NR - Noah Jones - IL - Visited - Loyola Academy - Dartmouth offer
NR - Jake Smith - Future 4* from AZ. - Offer watch
NR - Jaylen Hearst - Future High 3* - 4* from TX
 
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I need a little help understanding the DLine. We have 19 guys signed for next season. Obviously there will be departures, but I think we are still recruiting 1-2 more bodies for the d-line. That seems like a huge number for one position group (usually four deep for 4-3 defense is the sweet spot or 16 bodies). Ohio State does carry 19 scholarship d-line this season, but that might change a little considering how their lack of depth at LBer is hurting them. So I understand taking a few bodies and staying over the 16 mark for next season, but I hope it's not at the expense of spots in the 2019 DL class cause we need space for the monsters we have the potential to bring in!

2018 DL (19 guys)
RS SR 4* Daniel Cage
RS SR 4* Jay Hayes
RS SR 3* Pete Mokwuah
RS SR 3* Jonathan Bonner
SR 4* Jerry Tillery
RS JR 3* Brandon Tiassum
RS JR 3* Micah Dew-Treadway
JR 5* Daelin Hayes
JR 4* Khalid Kareem
JR 4* Julian Okwara
RS SO 3* Adetokunbo Ogundeji
SO 3* Kurt Hinish
SO 3* Myron T-Amosa
RS FR 4* Darnell Ewell
RS FR 3* Kofi Wardlow
RS FR 3* Jonathon MacCollister
FR 4* Jayson Ademilola
FR 3* Ja'Mion Franklin
FR 3* Justin Ademilola
HS Recruit #1???
HS Recruit #2???

2019 DL (15 Guys)
RS SR 3* Brandon Tiassum
RS SR 3* Micah Dew-Treadway
SR 5* Daelin Hayes
SR 4* Khalid Kareem
SR 4* Julian Okwara
RS JR 3* Adetokunbo Ogundeji
JR 3* Kurt Hinish
JR 3* Myron T-Amosa
RS SO 4* Darnell Ewell
RS SO 3* Kofi Wardlow
RS SO 3* Jonathon MacCollister
RS FR 4* Jayson Ademilola
RS FR 3* Ja'Mion Franklin
RS FR 3* Justin Ademilola
FR 4* Jacob Lacey

Of course, 2019 is a really long time from now and many things can change, but still seems like right now we'd be able to take 3-4 guys and by then hopefully some people will have left to give space for a 5-6 man class in 2019 cause the talent is incredible in that class. I mean we are in good, if not great, position to land some of these amazing guys...

.9975 5* Zach Harrison
.9665 4* Jowon Briggs
.9642 4* Brandon Smith
.9604 4* Joseph Anderson
.9597 4* Steven Faucheux
.9444 4* Hunter Spears
.9406 4* Mazi Smith
.9382 4* Jacob Lacey
.9275 4* Beau Robbins
.9216 4* Rodas Johnson
.9158 4* Marcus Hicks
.9045 3* JJ Weaver
 

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Cage and Mokwuah graduate and don't get a 5th.

I'll guess Elijah Taylor (forgot him above) will get a medical next year and come off the books.

I'll guess one the freshmen who RS'd this year transfers. You have 3 possibilities here.

The only other person to watch is Ogundeji who could transfer and have two years to play because of his RS.

Oh... what if we get a position change? Like Ewell to OG? He was an Opening OL MVP at his Regional (or Top 5?)

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RS SR Daniel Cage (Medical or No 5th Year)
RS SR Pete Mokwuah (No 5th Year)
RS JR Brandon Tiassum (Transfer Candidate - would be shocking as a senior)
RS JR Micah Dew-Treadway (Transfer Candidate - would be shocking as a senior)
RS SO Ade Ogundeji (Transfer Candidate)
RS FR Darnell Ewell (Transfer Candidate - Position Change Candidate)
RS FR Kofi Wardlow (Transfer Candidate)
RS FR Jonathan MacCollister (Transfer Candidate)

There are definitely a lot of guys who could not be on the roster next season. I do think the numbers will come down and we'll be fine to bring in a monster DL class in 2019. I'd personally be dreaming with Jowon Briggs (DT), Joseph Anderson (SDE), Hunter Spears (SDE), Jacob Lacey (DT), Beau Robbins (WDE), Marcus Hicks (WDE).
 

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According to Loy they want 4 interior DL and 2 DE's. Suppose one of those interior guys could also swing out to SDE. Wiltfong mentioned that Zach Harrison, who everyone assumes is all OSU, is genuinely interested in checking out ND, Michigan and Penn St. His mother is said to be especially curious about ND due to the academics.
 

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That's a huge DL class but this looks like the year to do it for ND. Loaded class along the defensive front with a lot of interest in ND.
 

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With nobody coming in behind Kofi in the 18’ class, I don’t know why he’d be a transfer candidate. The goal isn’t to push out all players that aren’t immediately contributing.
 

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What about MacCollister? He was good buddies with transfer OL PMoney and iirc somewhat grew up in P's household.
 

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Sounds like ND is working 4* SDE Stephon Wright pretty hard. A Jay Hayes clone from LA Cathedral HS... the same HS that almost gave us Jamire Calvin and Hunter Echols.

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Freebie:

"The schools I would say I'm talking with the most are probably USC, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, ASU, Colorado and Washington. I talk with Notre Dame every week. They haven't offered yet but I think they could after the season. Growing up, Alabama was actually my childhood favorite. I spent part of my childhood there and a lot of my family is from there so that was the school I grew up rooting for."

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">L.A (Calif.) Cathedral '19 DL Stephon Wright talks recent visit to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Oklahoma?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Oklahoma</a>, has a couple of Pac-12 trips on deck <a href="https://t.co/dR9WfsjE2F">https://t.co/dR9WfsjE2F</a> <a href="https://t.co/In7MAAUeHW">pic.twitter.com/In7MAAUeHW</a></p>— Greg Biggins (@GregBiggins) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregBiggins/status/931284836328783873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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pOSU offered on Monday.

ND officially in contact with Phil J's LT, Andrew Kristofic per Scout. If ND could land Carroll and Olmstead plus a third like Kristofic or Fort Wayne Dwenger's Joe Tippmann, they'd have a helluva haul.

Currently has offers from Wiscy, IU, MSU, WV & Pitt where his Dad played OL.

Pine-Richland junior OT hearing from Notre Dame

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Some posts from Phil's thread:
 

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pOSU offered on Monday.

Yeah, I saw that. Will be interesting to see how much weight Kristofic puts on this off season. I'd think after Quinn and Olmstead, he'd be high on the list if HH likes what he sees if nothing more than his relationship with Phil. That's a big foot to have in the door.
 

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Was just watching the Twitter feed scroll by and saw TJ McDaniel. He visited for one of the home games this fall. I had no idea he was this productive:

10 G ... 222 car ... 1778 yds ... 8.0 ypc ... 22 TD ... 21 rec ... 187 yds ... 1 TD

That quite a bit better than Cam did as a Senior. Hard to believe he doesn't have a P5 offer yet.

He transferred to Southlake Carroll which is a 6A D2 school, the highest in Texas. They are ranked #14 in that class and are in the Regional Finals this weekend, (Sweet 16). Getting it done against big time, Dallas talent. One to watch I guess.

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Was just watching the Twitter feed scroll by and saw TJ McDaniel. He visited for one of the home games this fall. I had no idea he was this productive:

10 G ... 222 car ... 1778 yds ... 8.0 ypc ... 22 TD ... 21 rec ... 187 yds ... 1 TD

That quite a bit better than Cam did as a Senior. Hard to believe he doesn't have a P5 offer yet.

He transferred to Southlake Carroll which is a 6A D2 school, the highest in Texas. They are ranked #14 in that class and are in the Regional Finals this weekend, (Sweet 16). Getting it done against big time, Dallas talent. One to watch I guess.

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I remember Cam giving him a shoutout on Twitter before the trip. How much rioting should we expect after this kid gets an offer?
 
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