Spring Practice 2023

[Luckylucci]

First thing I came across on the google.

Michael Carmody Expected Back​

Notre Dame played the last two weeks without backup turned starting LT Michael Carmody, but Brian Kelly said on Thursday that they expect him to be back this weekend. “He too is improving each week. We think we’re in the right position for him to be able to play at left tackle on Saturday,” Kelly said.

 

[Luckylucci]

Also of note, Jamie U mentioned that word around is Tobias Merriweather is having the best Spring Camp so far. Apparently, he’s the dude. And, Kaleb Smith has been pretty underwhelming. Now, this seems like maybe an overreaction to a slow start learning a new offense as we know he’s made plays in the ACC. More so than any other guy on the depth chart.

But, if this is true and it’s buy TM and short KS, that’s a trade I’ll take. One has 3 season of eligibility and the other only has one.

 

[Irish du Nord]

An uninjured Carmody is REAL good. When I heard the defensive player say that Schrauth was the oncoming reserve Olineman, I thought, Wow, with him and Carmody replacing our two seniors, we're still going to be damm good. AND we have Kristovic on top of that.

When I thought that by the way, I assume what's usually a good OLine assumption that experienced players like Fisher and Correll are going to get a leap between years (Alt doesn't need one, but even he will improve.) ND should have at a minimum 6 really good OLinemen this season for five spots. Knowing our recruiting, we'll probably have ten.

OMM, what’s your estimation of Kristofic at this point in his career?

 

[zelezo vlk]

Oh boy I can’t wait for Tobias to be suspended his entire sophomore year, like Alize and Kevin Austin before him. A time honored tradition.


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[PigtownIrish]

Who had the mullet then?

 

[CanadalovesND]

Also of note, Jamie U mentioned that word around is Tobias Merriweather is having the best Spring Camp so far. Apparently, he’s the dude. And, Kaleb Smith has been pretty underwhelming. Now, this seems like maybe an overreaction to a slow start learning a new offense as we know he’s made plays in the ACC. More so than any other guy on the depth chart.

But, if this is true and it’s buy TM and short KS, that’s a trade I’ll take. One has 3 season of eligibility and the other only has one.

Kaleb Smith the Elder was a good add, but I more than likely overvalued him upon hearing of his transfer to ND. He's not the same level of athlete like Merriweather, Styles, Thomas or Colzie... there is a limitation of how he can be used... but, I feel he could still carve out as a solid option on the boundary. Likely won't be targeted the most, but still can be productive in some manner.

I thought of him as the leading receiver for next season.

 

[IrishLion]

Oh boy I can’t wait for Tobias to be suspended his entire sophomore year, like Alize and Kevin Austin before him. A time honored tradition.


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[StPaul_Irish]

Kaleb Smith the Elder was a good add, but I more than likely overvalued him upon hearing of his transfer to ND. He's not the same level of athlete like Merriweather, Styles, Thomas or Colzie... there is a limitation of how he can be used... but, I feel he could still carve out as a solid option on the boundary. Likely won't be targeted the most, but still can be productive in some manner.

I thought of him as the leading receiver for next season.

I hereby formally request that IE from this moment fwd, from the 7th day of April. We only refer to him by the name the Our Lady has bestowed upon him. He shall now be known only as "Kaleb The Elder"

 

[FDNYIrish1]

Just an incredible group of young offensive players. Very exciting.

Was expecting to see multiple pages of people criticizing Mincheys delivery or some other craziness from the five second clip. I’m pleasantly surprised. I’m really excited to see the ability to take some vertical shots this year. I think this offense can do great things.

 

[NDFAN2008]

I’m guessing the 3 WR starters will be Tobias, Thomas, Colzie, with Styles, Smith and Chris Tyree being backups I think the freshman will get some snaps as well especially Flores and Greathouse

 

[arrowryan]

I’m guessing the 3 WR starters will be Tobias, Thomas, Colzie, with Styles, Smith and Chris Tyree being backups I think the freshman will get some snaps as well especially Flores and Greathouse

Wouldn’t be surprised if all 3 true freshmen receivers burn their RS eligibility by October. Not because of need, but because they’re that good. Not having a TE that absolutely doesn’t come off the field will help them get PT as well.

 

[Some Irish Bloke]

TBF, we were all thinking it he just went ahead and said it lol

 

[stlnd01]

Wouldn’t be surprised if all 3 true freshmen receivers burn their RS eligibility by October. Not because of need, but because they’re that good. Not having a TE that absolutely doesn’t come off the field will help them get PT as well.

Thinking about Tobias-Thomas-Colzie, Styles-Smith-Tyree, Flores-Greathouse-James and trying to remember the last time we rolled three WRs deep at each spot who we were actually excited about. Wild how quick that position (seems to have) turned around.

 

[notredomer23]

People will knock it because of his sophomore season, but Styles is going to be a 60+ catch guy this year. He's the only one out of Merriweather, Thomas, Colzie, and Smith that offer something truly different. He's gonna bounce back and crush this year.

 

[PutuporShutup]

I’m guessing the 3 WR starters will be Tobias, Thomas, Colzie, with Styles, Smith and Chris Tyree being backups I think the freshman will get some snaps as well especially Flores and Greathouse

I could see thomas being in the slot more but my hope is tobias, thomas, styles. I think we need a little more speed than tobias, thomas, colzie

 

[NDFAN2008]

Wouldn’t be surprised if all 3 true freshmen receivers burn their RS eligibility by October. Not because of need, but because they’re that good. Not having a TE that absolutely doesn’t come off the field will help them get PT as well.

Same I’d like to see them rotate guys

 

[Luckylucci]

Kind of the forgotten man at RB.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Yeah I'm curious to see how he does this fall. If he's back to what he was pre-injury in high school this could be a massive steal

 

[Irish#1]

Oh boy I can’t wait for Tobias to be suspended his entire sophomore year, like Alize and Kevin Austin before him. A time honored tradition.


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May the poop of a 1,000 finches rain upon your noggin.

 

[NDdomer2]

May the poop of a 1,000 finches rain upon your noggin.

beats an albatross or something.

 

[Old Man Mike]

I can't assess Kristovic at anything but what he has been for the last two years until we see if he makes the "senior leap" this year.
He has been a good serviceable OLineman with not enough snaps for a good evaluation (in my ability to rewind plays and assess
wins and losses.) I have good hopes for him, but would be lying if I said that any of that was clear. What we need are "leaks" from
staff and teammates which feature one or two guys. Those tell us a lot (usually) about whether the OTHER guys are impressing or not.

By the way, I'm really getting tired of the bullsh!t about Lugg being "the weak link" last year. I graded all the snaps. I graded Lugg higher
in success rate than anyone but Alt and late season Patterson. Guess what? So ultimately did the "professional" graders. The weak
links last year were Fisher, Patterson, and Correll early, Correll and Fisher mid, and pretty much no one end season as national
commentators pretty continuously stated on air. Get the "Eye-Test Ball watching Prejudice" outta here. Patterson got his mo-jo back after about two/three games, but Fisher didn't for about four/five games. THEN we had a really good OLine. Correll's weakness vs bullrushes was moderated by OLineplay which had Patterson helping him on pass protection most of the time. That left Lugg and Fisher on their own. Lugg stoned his opponents so regularly that they made no penetration (that was violated once in the bowl game but even there the total blocking scheme folded up and there really was time to deliver the ball anyway. That was the only time I can remember all season where Lugg ended up INvoluntarily on the ground.) Lugg's stoning via superior strength (initial punch delivery) was so "terminal" most plays that it put more pressure on Fisher, as the pocket got "opened" and distorted on both sides of him. Fisher had GREAT difficulties with the outside rush, plant-and-spin inside move, since Lugg had ironically created open space there. You could see (I believe) defensive coordinators scheming this a bit --- delaying the rush in front of Lugg (they knew the guy wasn't going to get there straight on anyway) and then playing into that bigger gap --- sometimes with a DB or LB blitz which the RB needed to pick up and often did not. We are going to miss BOTH Patterson and Lugg. Josh Lugg might not be drafted, but I'm betting just like Tommy Kraemer that he makes somebody's team. IE as a whole (there are some genuinely good evaluators here but not everyone by a long shot) will continue to ball-watch and miss what's actually happening in the trenches and who is actually responsible for which missed block, eternally. But I'll continue to defend our Bigguns in the face of that. "We good, and we been DAMM good." Sometimes the bad guys win a play. Give me a functioning QB and a RB who understands who to block, and that will reduce to near zero. ... and sometimes the play call is just by bad luck, a suicide call.

 

[Irish#1]

Good assessment OMM. I also thought that Fisher was a little disappointing last year, particularly early in the season. I expect him to take a big step forward this year.

 

[Old Man Mike]

Fisher seemed to lose his wanna-get-after-it to start the year. I'll bet a BUNCH that coach Harry got in his grill halfway through and the Big Fella came out with much more fire. I could see a noticeable upgrade in his activity during and after the plays. An example would be how many times an OLineman is still running towards where the back has gotten to, and even helping him up. I was worried that Fisher had allowed himself to even get out of shape physically, the change from the previous year was so obvious. But he came around and hopefully there will be no "fat-and-happy" looking play this time. (and I don't expect it --- another year: a boy becomes a man.)

just speculating, and I hope that I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem impossible to me that Fisher was "down" because he got RT instead of LT.

 

[SeekNDestroy]

Fisher seemed to lose his wanna-get-after-it to start the year. I'll bet a BUNCH that coach Harry got in his grill halfway through and the Big Fella came out with much more fire. I could see a noticeable upgrade in his activity during and after the plays. An example would be how many times an OLineman is still running towards where the back has gotten to, and even helping him up. I was worried that Fisher had allowed himself to even get out of shape physically, the change from the previous year was so obvious. But he came around and hopefully there will be no "fat-and-happy" looking play this time. (and I don't expect it --- another year: a boy becomes a man.)

just speculating, and I hope that I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem impossible to me that Fisher was "down" because he got RT instead of LT.

For the record, Fisher has lost at least 20 lbs from last season. No more “fat-and-happy,” for sure. Hopefully your expectations are coming to fruition.

 

[ulukinatme]

People will knock it because of his sophomore season, but Styles is going to be a 60+ catch guy this year. He's the only one out of Merriweather, Thomas, Colzie, and Smith that offer something truly different. He's gonna bounce back and crush this year.

I hope this happens. He was hungry Freshman year. I don't know if it was Pyne, a Sophomore slump, or a little of both that held him back but I expected a lot more out of him last year based on his first year abilities.

 

[AKRowdy]

Honest question was any of the line studdering early last year on Harry?

 

[ulukinatme]

Honest question was any of the line studdering early last year on Harry?

Some, but he got it cleaned up fairly quick. There were communication issues, possibly because of Patterson's injury. I've seen some analysts say Buchner was escaping the pocket when he didn't need to be, making protections harder. Harry stopped the bleeding fairly quick. For Quinn it took half a season.

 

[irishandy]

Playing catch up from the last week....

I think our QB room this year is the healthiest/strongest it has been in a long time. You don't bring someone like Hartman in to sit, if he loses the job he does it on his own. Does anyone really think he is going to lose the starting QB position? I don't think Buchner is ready to start yet.

I am most excited about our WR's. They have a QB that can throw to them.

 

[PutuporShutup]

Honest question was any of the line studdering early last year on Harry?

Took until the fourth game for the oline to play well… Lugg and zeke struggled big time early

 

[Sea Turtle]

I like those guys at ISD. They do a pretty good job breaking stuff down and they're likeable.

But what's up with Greg's constant sniffle? Either that guy has a massive coke habit or he's had the same cold for years.

Maybe I'm being petty, but man it's distracting.

Do you not know about tourettes and ticking? You watch him a couple of times and it's evident he has a tourette tick.