'25 MA QB Blake Hebert (Notre Dame Signee)

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Jiggafini19Deux said:
I want to hear this same thing about WR in the next 14 months.

This is all well and good, but I don't care about the circumstances. I'm glad they got a guy in here who is undoubtedly a four star talent who has seen some adversity and will come in with something to prove. He clearly understands the depth chart in front of him and knows there is already a verbal behind him. All that and he's still flipping into the class.
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Gotta love the confidence in himself. He is not scurred of a little competition like that Massive Shit
 
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He could have started this year with same playcalling and we win our games. Guy can run! He can also throw the ball easy 60 yards. That’s quite the big head though.
 
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The Clemson staff didn't think he'd flip and they didn't want to lose him. It would appear that ND came up big in the NIL department, and Dabo doesn't go crazy with recruits when it comes to that. He's not going to give HS kids more than his starters and upperclassmen players.

It sounds like ND dropped the bag here and won.
 
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Jiggafini19Deux said:
The Clemson staff didn't think he'd flip and they didn't want to lose him. It would appear that ND came up big in the NIL department, and Dabo doesn't go crazy with recruits when it comes to that. He's not going to give HS kids more than his starters and upperclassmen players.

It sounds like ND dropped the bag here and won.
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They have/had a bunch of NIL money free up when Duece committed to little bro
 
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Jiggafini19Deux said:
The Clemson staff didn't think he'd flip and they didn't want to lose him. It would appear that ND came up big in the NIL department, and Dabo doesn't go crazy with recruits when it comes to that. He's not going to give HS kids more than his starters and upperclassmen players.

It sounds like ND dropped the bag here and won.
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So are some fans going to hold it against Hebert his entire career the way they do against Leonard?
 
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Jiggafini19Deux said:
The Clemson staff didn't think he'd flip and they didn't want to lose him. It would appear that ND came up big in the NIL department, and Dabo doesn't go crazy with recruits when it comes to that. He's not going to give HS kids more than his starters and upperclassmen players.

It sounds like ND dropped the bag here and won.
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Rumor is in the past a Christian mega church provided $ to recruits. Now that kids can make money through NIL, notice recruiting is harder for Clemson...
 
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DillonHall said:
So are some fans going to hold it against Hebert his entire career the way they do against Leonard?
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One is a HS Senior, the other is a 22 year old 5th year Senior with one year of eligibility and getting an order of magnitude more. Not even close to the same situation.
 
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NDMD said:
One is a HS Senior, the other is a 22 year old 5th year Senior with one year of eligibility and getting an order of magnitude more. Not even close to the same situation.
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I would much rather they pay transfers than HS kids

Also, it’s not really relevant but Leonard is a true senior. Honestly $1.8M isn’t even that much money. It’s gonna seem pedestrian in a few years
 
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It’s not my money, so I couldn’t care less how much anybody was getting paid. Though the higher the number, the better, since it shows ND is able to provide a competitive figure. Again, I’d prefer that current players and transfers get paid ahead of high schoolers but it’s not my money so my opinion doesn’t count for much
 
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The point is a draft eligible QB with starting experienced signs with the expectations they are being signed to start and produce. He knew the expectations coming in and the critism is warranted. A 3/4* high school senior being brought in behind a 5* has drastically different expectations. It was a stupid comparison.
 
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NDMD said:
The point is a draft eligible QB with starting experienced signs with the expectations they are being signed to start and produce. He knew the expectations coming in and the critism is warranted. A 3/4* high school senior being brought in behind a 5* has drastically different expectations. It was a stupid comparison.
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Yet we "dropped the bag" to get Hebert, a "3/4* high school senior" who may never play at ND while he's stuck behind Carr. You're ok with that? That seems stupid to me

You're completely missing the context/point. My initial comment was in response to ND "dropping the bag" for Hebert, which immediately raises the expectations, just like it did with Leonard. It's a completely valid comparison. I don't know how else I can explain it
 
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DillonHall said:
You're completely missing the context/point. My initial comment was in response to ND "dropping the bag," which immediately raises the expectations, just like it did with Leonard. It's a completely valid comparison. I don't know how else I can explain it
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We have no idea what size bag was dropped here and we'll never know. Outbidding Dabo doesn't seem that difficult, TBH.
I'd be very surprised if we dropped anywhere near Riley Leonard, or even Deuce Knight, level bag for a prep school three-star who is the 29th ranked QB in his class.
 
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stlnd01 said:
We have no idea what size bag was dropped here and we'll never know. Outbidding Dabo doesn't seem that difficult, TBH.
I'd be very surprised if we dropped anywhere near Riley Leonard, or even Deuce Knight, level bag for a prep school three-star who is the 29th ranked QB in his class.
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I'm sure it's less than the amount Leonard got, but again, I was responding to the post that stated ND "dropped the bag," which would indicate a decent chunk of money was spent
 
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DillonHall said:
I'm sure it's less than the amount Leonard got, but again, I was responding to the post that stated ND "dropped the bag," which would indicate a decent chunk of money was spent
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I guess I read that more as speculation than a known fact. But maybe Jigg knows something we don't.

Hebert also said we kept in touch and Clemson, oddly, hadn't. He committed to them so fast, maybe second thoughts crept in. A Catholic/prep school kid from Massachusetts seems a more natural fit with us than with Clemson. Denbrock may have changed Hebert's calculus. There's a lot of reasons beyond money for him to flip, and while I'm sure we made him an offer, and I suspect Dabo doesn't so much play that game, it may not have taken much of a bag at all. It definitely wasn't an Auburn-buying-Deuce type of scenario.
 
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Solid pickup, I don't care if he is a 4* or 3*; I didn't want to see ND go to the portal after this season for a QB. Klubnik has gotten better and Lawrence was a stud at Clemson. If Dabo saw something in this kid, I am sold.
 
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Game Cut | 2025 Notre Dame QB Commit Blake Hebert (2 TDs) vs. Phillips Exeter Academy

2025 Notre Dame quarterback commit Blake Hebert tossed two long touchdown passes on Saturday afternoon, but the Brunswick School (Conn.) suffered its first loss of the year.
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Maybe I'm too biased, but honestly not concerned by the numbers. Film showed them attempt 3 high-percentage throws (one dropped, one too high on a slant, one appeared to be a throw-away into the field against tight coverage), then like 6 or 7 shot plays, of which he connected on two.

Didn't see anything alarming, all the throws seemed close. Could've used some help from his receivers on a couple, missed by a step on one.
 
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