'23 TX S Peyton Bowen (Oklahoma Signee ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

[NDIrish88]

Singer says all is well now with Bowen and ND. Loy said something similar too.

Yeah . . . For now

 

[T-Boone]

Yeah . . . For now

That is the case for every "commit" everywhere.

 

[Ndaccountant]

Yeah . . . For now

I am not saying this is what happened with Peyton, but speaking more broadly. It's something we are just going to have to get used to in the NIL era. There will always be another school that uses NIL to push. Even if ND upped their NIL game, it would still happen.

 

[ndinoxford]

At Ole Miss today with his brother. Ole Miss writer said to "keep a hard eye" on Peyton.. whatever that means

 

[NDPhilly]

Man this is going to be a fun cycle

 

[Free Manera]

Man this is going to be a fun cycle

It won’t just be this cycle. Freeman wants elite players. This is what recruiting elite players looks like.

The days of 3 stars that lock in the spring before their senior year are over.

 

[ndinoxford]

Man this is going to be a fun cycle

Yeah, not ideal when on our first Junior Day of the cycle our two top commits are visiting other schools instead of ND..

 

[NDIrish88]

Why even commit?

 

[NorthDakota]

At Ole Miss today with his brother. Ole Miss writer said to "keep a hard eye" on Peyton.. whatever that means

My cousin ran track at Columbia and was pretty sold on them early on. She still took visits to other schools. Its "fun to be wanted." If that's what a track girl says regarding Ivy League recruiting, multiply that by 100x for high school boys in this era.

 

[stlnd01]

I'm sorry but - cash money aside - what even is the appeal of Ole Miss? To a highly-rated kid from Texas? Oklahoma I get. Bama or LSU? Sure. But if you can go anywhere why do you go to a school in Mississippi where a *good* season means finishing third in your division? Is it really just the cash money?

 

[irishog77]

I'm sorry but - cash money aside - what even is the appeal of Ole Miss? To a highly-rated kid from Texas? Oklahoma I get. Bama or LSU? Sure. But if you can go anywhere why do you go to a school in Mississippi where a *good* season means finishing third in your division? Is it really just the cash money?

I hear ya. Even with non-blue chip football recruits, ole miss does well. The elite high schools in Nashville send multiple kids to ole miss. Every year. Like their parents spend 30k a year for high school, and are fine when they pick ole miss over Emory, Rhodes, SMU, Duke, Wake Forest, Baylor, Sewanee, Rice, Washington U, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, etc.

Why? I guess money, attractiveness of coeds, parties, and a helluva regional/national alumni base that help each other out.

 

[stlnd01]

I hear ya. Even with non-blue chip football recruits, ole miss does well. The elite high schools in Nashville send multiple kids to ole miss. Every year. Like their parents spend 30k a year for high school, and are fine when they pick ole miss over Emory, Rhodes, SMU, Duke, Wake Forest, Baylor, Sewanee, Rice, Washington U, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, etc.

Why? I guess money, attractiveness of coeds, parties, and a helluva regional/national alumni base that help each other out.

Oh, I think Ole Miss is a nice enough place to go to college if you're from the South and well-off but not necessarily that serious a student. Oxford is delightful and yeah I'm sure the parties are great. But if you're an elite football player, good enough to have your choice of top programs, why would you choose that one? So you can lose valiantly to Bama every year?

 

[Dale]

I'm sorry but - cash money aside - what even is the appeal of Ole Miss? To a highly-rated kid from Texas? Oklahoma I get. Bama or LSU? Sure. But if you can go anywhere why do you go to a school in Mississippi where a *good* season means finishing third in your division? Is it really just the cash money?

Eli his brother isn’t that level of prospect at the moment. So visiting Ole Miss A) is fun B) helps brother is the thought at least

 

[Irish4life]

Elite committed prospects are going to take visits. It is what it is. I think it wise to just get used to it.

 

[ThePiombino]

Isn't this kind of what recruiting was like in 2012/2013? Big game hunting is very exciting. Difference now is we have a staff made up of ABCers from top to bottom.

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[IrishRazor82]

I say this as someone with decades of experience living in SEC country as well as midwest, but midwesterners vastly underestimate living in the south. Yes, even MS especially if you get near ocean side.

Cheaper, more friendly people, beautiful country, and every amenity/opportunity you can imagine.

 

[andre784]

I say this as someone with decades of experience living in SEC country as well as midwest, but midwesterners vastly underestimate living in the south. Yes, even MS especially if you get near ocean side.

Cheaper, more friendly people, beautiful country, and every amenity/opportunity you can imagine.

Might not be a wise move to stay in the south. If Harbaugh goes back to the NFL, it leaves a lot of marbles for Freeman or Day for the top prospects not from the south.

 

[Dale]

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/tomloy247/status/1487862984168906756?s=21[/TWEET]

I'm really locked in. I just want to make sure I'm not making the wrong decision. I just wanted to go see these other places.

​​​​​…..

In the fall, I'll probably be a hundred percent into the school I choose, which is probably going to be Notre Dame.

…..

I have the spring game at Notre Dame for sure. I'm not sure about the other places yet.

Not ideal but also not the worst in the world. Reality is we lead. Maybe (hopefully) even still by a lot. I’d rather see him visit another new school then make a return visit to OU.

 

[ndinoxford]

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/tomloy247/status/1487862984168906756?s=21[/TWEET]



Not ideal but also not the worst in the world. Reality is we lead. Maybe (hopefully) even still by a lot. I’d rather see him visit another new school then make a return visit to OU.

Spring game is going to be lit this year

 

[NDohio]

I say this as someone with decades of experience living in SEC country as well as midwest, but midwesterners vastly underestimate living in the south. Yes, even MS especially if you get near ocean side.

Cheaper, more friendly people, beautiful country, and every amenity/opportunity you can imagine.

I guess it is all about perspective. I'm from OH, been living in South Carolina since 2012, can't wait to retire back to the north...

 

[ulukinatme]

I guess it is all about perspective. I'm from OH, been living in South Carolina since 2012, can't wait to retire back to the north...

Yeah, I had friends that went to North Carolina after graduating because they were paying decently for teachers to come in. They stayed maybe 5 years and decided it was time to come back to Ohio. Maybe IrishRazor82 just was in the wrong part of the Midwest.

 

[Irish#1]

I say this as someone with decades of experience living in SEC country as well as midwest, but midwesterners vastly underestimate living in the south. Yes, even MS especially if you get near ocean side.

Cheaper, more friendly people, beautiful country, and every amenity/opportunity you can imagine.

We're considering moving south when I retire and we've taken a serious look at almost every state in the south. Mississippi has historically ranked #1 in the poorest states. #43 out of 50 for education. Biloxi is a dump and the beaches have environmental warning signs posted about swimming. There are some good places in SEC to retire in, but Mississippi isn't one of them.

 

[stlnd01]

Also guys Oxford is 300 miles from the coast. No one's going to Ole Miss for the beaches.

 

[Irishize]

Also guys Oxford is 300 miles from the coast. No one's going to Ole Miss for the beaches.

It’s approx an hour from Memphis. Oxford is a tiny college town. It’s exactly what you think of as a college town. It’s not dreary like South Bend but it’s not Austin or Chapel Hill either. State school but attracts a lot of rich kids. The popular t-shirt around campus when I was in college read “Ole Miss: We’re not snobs…we’re just better than you”. Their tailgate is bucket list worthy. The games…not so much. Their claims are they’ve never lost a tailgate & they redshirt Miss Americas. At least they know their strengths & weaknesses LOL.

 

[PANDFAN]

man, this clown ..someone on twitter wrote he is solid right now to ND but don't be surprised if he ended up elsewhere w/ quoted UTenn offer to which he LIKED it...listen not into oh well this is what it is like w/ the big dogs etc...but the man just committed what a month or 2 ago and then liking this stuff...just saying these don't usually end up turning out for us

 

[Whiskeyjack]

man, this clown ..someone on twitter wrote he is solid right now to ND but don't be surprised if he ended up elsewhere w/ quoted UTenn offer to which he LIKED it...listen not into oh well this is what it is like w/ the big dogs etc...but the man just committed what a month or 2 ago and then liking this stuff...just saying these don't usually end up turning out for us

The only path to another natty for ND involves sticking out these recruiting battles and winning them. This is why we gambled on Freeman.

 

[stlnd01]

There's only path to another natty for ND involves sticking out these recruiting battles and winning them. This is why we gambled on Freeman.

It's one thing to wrestle with Bama or Oklahoma or some home-state power for these guys, but when they're flirting with the likes of Ole Miss and Tennessee, it doesn't inspire a lot of confidence that they're serious about Notre Dame.

 

[Henges24]

He has also liked 20 ND tweets in the same time frame so at least he likes us 10x more.

 

[IrishRazor82]

IMO not a coincidences ISD has put out two articles strickly for Caleb Downs in past month...

 

[Dale]

IMO not a coincidences ISD has put out two articles strickly for Caleb Downs in past month...

Caleb Downs has always been the top target and gotten coverage to reflect that. Even before Bowen committed. He’s the quintessential ND did well here but we come in 3rd.