Notre Dame Football 2011: The Brian Kelly Era...Ascends?

• karen lotz

  

  http://twitter.com/#!/NDatRivals/status/26301496215740416
  

  For what it's worth, Aaron Lynch of Cape Coral, Fla., is now listed in the #NotreDame student directory.

• rock_knutne

  ^^^^^Barring a last minute disaster, he's going to be Irish!
• karen lotz

  

  Irish Sports Daily can confirm that Florida DE Aaron Lynch has committed to Notre Dame.

  Fuck yes!!!
• karen lotz

  

  http://www.irishsportsdaily.com/recruiting/notre-dame-football-recruiting/3980-aaron-lynch-commits-to-notre-dame
• Tobias Fünke

  

  two five-star recruits in two days? i'm game.
• Crimson streak

  

  Unreal job by Kelly and his staff. The defense is looking amazing in the next couple years
• Tobias Fünke

  

  ...yes I'm saying Lynch is a five-star guy, because he should be. In my opinion he's better than Tuitt.
• karen lotz

  

  Tobias Fünke;639052 wrote:...yes I'm saying Lynch is a five-star guy, because he should be. In my opinion he's better than Tuitt.

  
  
  Scout has him as a 5 star guy. And they have Lynch as the 6th best DE, Tuitt is 12th ranked and a 4 star.
• Tobias Fünke

  

  Good. I was looking at Rivals.
• sherm03

  

  Unreal!
• karen lotz

  

  Tobias Fünke;639059 wrote:Good. I was looking at Rivals.

  Yeah, I don't know which one is better. Scout is usually a little quicker with the updates so I go there more often.
• Tobias Fünke

  

  I look at all of them since I don't know who is better, and Notre Dame's class is now #3 on Scout and #11 on Rivals. Very nice.
• karen lotz

  

  I'm not sure Kelly will ever be able to recruit well enough at Notre Dame.
• rock_knutne

  karen lotz;639091 wrote:I'm not sure Kelly will ever be able to recruit well enough at Notre Dame.

  Hahahaha.........I think BK has shown what he's made of when given the chance. Weis brought in a couple good classes but this is the BEST recruiting class ND has seen since Lou Holtz was there. Given that BK has shown he can develop players this year, the future is looking very very good in South Bend!
• Tobias Fünke

  

  I don't know Clausen's class was pretty loaded.
• rock_knutne

  Tobias Fünke;639141 wrote:I don't know Clausen's class was pretty loaded.

  
  What was that class ranked? Depending on the service, I'm thinking top ten for sure but this class that BK has put together is going to be top five for sure or better........that hasn't happened since Holtz. Then again, ranking mean nothing if they don't produce wins or have the right development which BK has shown he can do.
• karen lotz

  

  I think Clausen's class was around 3 or 4. This class is by far the best defensive class since Holtz.
  
  Actually looking at just Scout's rankings, Clausen's class was 11th and the class before that was 5th. That had a lot to do with the size of the classes. '07 had 18 and '06 had 28. About the only guys from the '06 class that panned out at all were Sam Young, Chris Stewart, Darrin Walls, Sergio Brown and Dan Wenger. 5 or 6 of that class transferred.
• grodt

  

  Great news the future is looking as bright as it's been in a long while on the defensive front. When we hired Kelly I was curious how his system would look being run by the higher caliber of players he could get at Notre Dame. Now I guess we'll see what he can do.
  
  Oh and side note, am I the only one who thought it was pronounced 'eye-shaq'?
• athlete37

  

  The class after Clausen's was rated as the top class in the country-- Floyd, Crist, Rudolph, KLM, Ethan Johnson, Filer, Fleming, Fauria, Trevor Robinson, Blanton etc. http://rivals.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/commitments/2008/notredame-104;_ylt=AuUHkYvIv3hDB1Fp4tV2Vl9JPZB4
• athlete37

  

  Number one on scout, 2 on rivals
• Tobias Fünke

  

  YEAR - Ranking, # of recruits, recruit star average form Scout.com
  
  2011 - 3rd 22+ 3.59
  2010 - 19th 23 3.17
  2009 - 23rd 18 3.56
  2008 - 2nd 23 3.96
  2007 -11th 18 3.72
  2006 - 5th 28 3.61
  2005 - 27th 13 3.27
  
  Was 2005 the class during the Willingham-Weis shift? Goodness Willingham was a terrible recruiter.
  
  I think that 2008 class was incredible because of the size and the average star of the players. They are the catalyst for rebuilding the program. What I like about 2011 is that is fits pretty perfectly with Notre Dame's needs. The staff did a great job of making sure they focused on DE and OLB. I got the feeling Weis went after the best of the best and if he didn't get them he was screwed and lacked depth at certain places, most notably QB and S.
  
  If Brian Kelly got Niklas, Carlisle, and Huggins, this would be a GREAT class.
• Tobias Fünke

  

  Notre Dame finished 19th in 2010 according to Jeff Sagarin. I would agree.
  
  http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/fbt10.htm
• karen lotz

  

  grodt;639211 wrote:Oh and side note, am I the only one who thought it was pronounced 'eye-shaq'?

  
  
  I thought the same until I saw somewhere that it was "ee" shaq a couple of days ago.
• grodt

  

  In that one article his dad said it's pronounced "EE-Shock" I think he said it was Arabic.
• The Equalizer

  

  Hmmm....We could start calling our Defense front 7 EE-Shock-and-Awe