'22 GA TE Holden Staes (Notre Dame Signee)

[Dale]

Ready to re-evalute that opinion?

No?

“ND doesn’t frequent in the force out business.”

Still true.

“Not sure a top Georgia TE and long time commit is a good place to change that.”

Still my opinion.

I am allowed to disagree with what the staff may do just as me and you may disagree. I never said they wouldn’t, nor is it proven they have, forced Nickel out. I just wouldn’t have. So to your answer question again, no Nickel’s decommitment does not change my opinion I stated.

 

[Luckylucci]

Sucks for Nickel but I do love a class of Raridon and Staes.

 

[Dale]

Pushed his visit to the next weekend per Loy, June 18th - 20th

https://247sports.com/college/notre-...ish-164201967/

Does he start the weekend as a commit already or join the party during to pass good vibes around?

 

[Luckylucci]

Pushed his visit to the next weekend per Loy, June 18th - 20th

https://247sports.com/college/notre-...ish-164201967/

Does he start the weekend as a commit already or join the party during to pass good vibes around?

With Nickel out of the class there wouldn't seem to be a rush for the 2nd spot. Now both spots are open and only 2 guys vying for them. So, I'll side with him waiting but I also think he's a heavy ND lean so it wouldn't surprise me if he popped any day now.

 

[Trait Expectations]

Pushed his visit to the next weekend per Loy, June 18th - 20th

https://247sports.com/college/notre-...ish-164201967/

Does he start the weekend as a commit already or join the party during to pass good vibes around?

I believe he'll be one of the guys that commits that weekend. I think it's going to be a huge weekend for ND (June will be a huge month in general), but we have a lot of our top targets on campus for that weekend.

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

Im thinking one of the 2 at least has alrady committed and ND told Nikel.

 

[Luckylucci]

Im thinking one of the 2 at least has alrady committed and ND told Nikel.

Yea, I think Staes is one of the public commits upon visiting. I said before that I think the number is higher than some realize and Staes is one of those.

 

[NDdomer2]

Im thinking one of the 2 at least has alrady committed and ND told Nikel.

I would hope they are supremely confident in #2 as well

 

[Dale]

I can’t even think to name who could be second for Staes. Raridon at least has Iowa lurking

 

[Luckylucci]

We can kind of size him up a bit in this picture. 6’6 TE Cole Spence and 6’5 TE Arik Gilbert. Holds up pretty well. Not the end all be all but nice to know he won’t show up on campus 6’3.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/TEwracademy/status/1379394631490793474[/TWEET]

 

[IrishLion]

An FSU insider just put in a CB for Staes to ND. The confidence continues to build.

 

[longliveautrydenson]

An FSU insider just put in a CB for Staes to ND. The confidence continues to build.

I think this was probably locked up awhile ago. ND doesn’t let Jack Nickel walk if Staes wasn’t already in the bag.

The big question is whether we can lure Raridon out of Iowa. I know some people aren’t that high on him, but I think a Staes-Raridon combo could be what we thought Wright-Kmet was going to be several years ago.

 

[Dale]

An FSU insider just put in a CB for Staes to ND. The confidence continues to build.

I’ve been mentally including Hinish, Staes and Schrauth in this class

 

[dublinirish]

We can kind of size him up a bit in this picture. 6’6 TE Cole Spence and 6’5 TE Arik Gilbert. Holds up pretty well. Not the end all be all but nice to know he won’t show up on campus 6’3.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/TEwracademy/status/1379394631490793474[/TWEET]

Cole Spence was Lea's first commit in the Vandy 2022 class

 

[NDisme]

He's all of 6'5" maybe taller, Gilbert (Lower Merion shorts) is listed at 6'5" as well

 

[stpeteirish]

Is Gilbert still a free agent?

 

[dublinirish]

Is Gilbert still a free agent?

Latest is he is likely headed back to LSU but he has academic hurdles to overcome apparently

 

[Luckylucci]

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/Hstaes13/status/1390453653505519616[/TWEET]

 

[arrowryan]

So this is one of the silents that should be going public soon. Surprised he waited this long.

 

[Dale]

A staff bat signal has been sent out...

 

[BobbyMac]

 

[Dale]

He’s been free from PSU for 3 months and I still can’t even think to say who’d theoretically be 2nd place here lol

 

[Luckylucci]

He’s been free from PSU for 3 months and I still can’t even think to say who’d theoretically be 2nd place here lol

Yea, it's kind of wild. There is reportedly interest from other big programs yet it seems like it's only been ND since his de-commitment from PSU.

 

[BobbyMac]

I've seen he'll announce at 5 by a random poster and then this tweet. Could it be he committed to the staff today and will go public tomorrow? That's how Raridon's went down, right? They bat signaled then it hit the newsstands the next day.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/Recruitology1/status/1390707898511147011[/TWEET]

 

[Irish#1]

I hope he Staes the course and is Irish!

 

[BobbyMac]

I hope he Staes the course and is Irish!

 

[BobbyMac]

Definitely tomorrow at 5pm EST.

https://www.instagram.com/p/COlCjDFFver/?igshid=cds116n68n2b

Georgia TE's got me all...

 

[Luckylucci]

GA TE pipeline continues, who's next?

 

[BobbyMac]

GA TE pipeline continues, who's next?

Funny thing... The highest rated TE’s in the class are GA TE’s they didn’t get... or even make a run at.

 

[Armyirish47]

So when we only had a different GA TE there was speculation that TE recruiting was down or underperforming by the punditry, do these two commitments since then fix the situation or are we still not quite recruiting to an appropriate level at our money spot?