Notre Dame Football 2010.......The Brian Kelly Era Begins

• rock_knutne

  Here's a nice article from Blue and Gold breaking down the defense:
  
  http://www.blueandgold.com/content/?aid=8728
  
  I found it interesting that Coach Kelly feels Louis Nix doesn't need to come in and be a factor right away, especially with ND's recent failures on the Dline.
• The Equalizer

  

  Either he thinks the failures have been more relating to prior defensive scheme and coaching up or he doesn't want to throw him in the fire off the bat and have the kid lose confidence.
  
  
  ...and they have Teo on the inside, which is great news. Let him flow to the ball without having to run across half the fiield if they go the other way.
• killer_ewok

  

  I know it's early, but does anybody have an idea of what the 2-deep on both sides of the ball will look like under Kelly?
• rock_knutne

  ^^^^Good question. Your guess is as good as mine.
• athlete37

  

  QB- Crist, Montana
  RB- Allen, Gray
  FB- Paskorz, Narvaez
  WR- Floyd, Goodman
  WR- Kumara, Evans, Toma
  TE- Rudolph, Ragone
  LT- Romine
  LG- Stewart
  C- Wenger
  RG- Robinson
  RT- Dever
  
  Front Seven- KLM, Johnson, Wiliams, Neal
  Te'o, B. Smith, Filer/Fleming
  CB- Walls, Blanton
  S-H Smith and Jamoris Slaughtor
  
  Just my guesses
• athlete37

  

  ^^^ Sorry, I forgot that Mikey is doing med school next fall, so I don't know who the back-up will be a fb
• karen lotz

  

  Do you really think Montana is the backup QB?? Crist's knee better hold up...
• j_crazy

  

  who is montana?
• karen lotz

  

  Joe Montana's oldest son, Nate. He was a walk-on up until this past season when he played a year of Junior College fb to get some game experience. He has rejoined ND.
  
  http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/ncf/news/story?id=4813389
• karen lotz

  

  ccrunner609 wrote: Montana's son didnt have very good stats at that JUCO school. Man if he has to play, ND prolly wont win a game.

  which is why I said Crist's knee better hold up.
  
  I'd have to think one of the incoming freshmen will eventually move up there. Rees is already enrolled so he will have the advantage over Hendrix but who knows.
• j_crazy

  

  with crist I'll call for a 8-4 Irish campaign. without him, it's up in the air.
• steel_curtain

  LT- Matt Romine, Lane Clelland
  LG- Chris Stewart, Chris Watt
  C- Dan Wenger, Mike Golic Jr.
  RG- Trevor Robinson, Andrew Nuss
  RT- Taylor Dever, Zach Martin
  TE- Kyle Rudolph, Mike Ragone
  WR- Michael Floyd, John Goodman
  WR- Duval Kamara, Deion Walker
  WR- Shaq Evans, Tailer Jones or Theo Riddick (Said he may move him here)
  RB- Armando Allen, Cierre Wood (said he was moving Riddick so one of them wouldn't be standing by him on the sideline.)
  QB- Dayne Crist, Tommy Rees (I think Hendrix has the best upside, but Rees is the most college ready and is enrolling early. Montana will never pay a meaningful down.)
  
  DE- Ethan Johnson, Sean Cwynar
  NT- Ian Williams, Tyler Stockton
  DE- Kapron Lewis Moore, Hafis Williams
  OLB- Brian Smith, Steve Filer
  ILB- Manti Teo, David Posluzny
  ILB- Anthony McDonald, Carlo Calabrese
  OLB- Darius Fleming, Kerry Neal
  CB- Gary Gray, Darrin Walls
  CB- Robert Blanton, Jamoris Slaughter
  FS- Danny McCarthy, Chris Badger
  SS- Harrison Smith, Zeke Motta
  
  FS-
• athlete37

  

  Crist's knew will be fine, it already almost is
• killer_ewok

  

  Thanks, guys.
  
  I can't wait to see Danny McCarthy play.
• rock_knutne

  steel_curtain wrote: LT- Matt Romine, Lane Clelland
  LG- Chris Stewart, Chris Watt
  C- Dan Wenger, Mike Golic Jr.
  RG- Trevor Robinson, Andrew Nuss
  RT- Taylor Dever, Zach Martin
  TE- Kyle Rudolph, Mike Ragone
  WR- Michael Floyd, John Goodman
  WR- Duval Kamara, Deion Walker
  WR- Shaq Evans, Tailer Jones or Theo Riddick (Said he may move him here)
  RB- Armando Allen, Cierre Wood (said he was moving Riddick so one of them wouldn't be standing by him on the sideline.)
  QB- Dayne Crist, Tommy Rees (I think Hendrix has the best upside, but Rees is the most college ready and is enrolling early. Montana will never pay a meaningful down.)
  
  DE- Ethan Johnson, Sean Cwynar
  NT- Ian Williams, Tyler Stockton
  DE- Kapron Lewis Moore, Hafis Williams
  OLB- Brian Smith, Steve Filer
  ILB- Manti Teo, David Posluzny
  ILB- Anthony McDonald, Carlo Calabrese
  OLB- Darius Fleming, Kerry Neal
  CB- Gary Gray, Darrin Walls
  CB- Robert Blanton, Jamoris Slaughter
  FS- Danny McCarthy, Chris Badger
  SS- Harrison Smith, Zeke Motta
  
  FS-

  Nice break down of a possible depth chart steel. As I mentioned on my initial post, ND is loaded at linebacker. I wish they had that kind of depth on the defensiveline.
• steel_curtain

  There are a frew possible changes: will they play Smith and Motta play linebacker? I think a combo Slaughter and McCarthy at safety would be nasty and getting Smith and Motta's speed at linebacker would be sweet, especially p;aying against spread teams.
• CinciX12

  

  Notre Dame sucks.
• CinciX12

  

  karen lotz wrote: Do you really think Montana is the backup QB?? Crist's knee better hold up...

  I'll cry. I will honestly dig a hole and cry. If thats the case the offensive line had better be NFL pro bowl material.
• steel_curtain

  CinciX12 wrote: Notre Dame sucks.

  
• CinciX12

  

  All of this is awesome. Except for the tinnnny detail that I have pictures of Notre Dame Stadium, Touchdown Jesus, and Joe Montana on the wall in front of me.
  
  So technically I was making fun of how you molest your students. Just come out and admit it, get the rehab process started.
• sjmvsfscs08

  cc, you don't post anything that a person with the intellect higher than a gym teacher would call "facts;" you post a bunch of bogus shit about mythical recruiting classes and then you, like the others on here ripping Notre Dame, try to make a prediction based on those "facts." You are a lot better than sleeper though, that motherfucker is demented.
  
  Notre Dame is loaded at RB, TE, WR, and LB. Everywhere else, cross your fingers. They've got talent but no depth in the trenches, and safety and quarterback lineups might as well be drawn from a hat. I'm not too sure about moving Riddick to receiver, he has the potential to be a stud in the backfield in 2011. But it worked for the Irish when promising young running back Ricky Watters moved to receiver in 1988. I guess that means the Irish will be national champions...... :s
• karen lotz

  

  CinciX12 wrote: All of this is awesome. Except for the tinnnny detail that I have pictures of Notre Dame Stadium, Touchdown Jesus, and Joe Montana on the wall in front of me.
  
  So technically I was making fun of how you molest your students. Just come out and admit it, get the rehab process started.

  lol
• sjmvsfscs08

  It's fairly simple, try and wrap your brain around this on your next snow day: stop looking at Rivals, Scout, and ESPN, and start looking at which schools offer the prospect. Look at Andrew Hendrix, he committed to Notre Dame, but according to the omniscient internet he had offers from Ohio State, Florida, and Tennessee among other powers. How about Matt James, offers from Ohio State, Penn State, Tennessee, and Florida. Tai-ler Jones had offers from Ohio State, Alabama, and Georgia. Louis Nix had an offer from Florida. Prince Shembo had offers from Virginia Tech and Tennessee. Alex Welch had offers form Ohio State and Oklahoma.
  
  If my thinking cap is on correctly, I would have to presume that their respective coaches think they're good enough to play there. And all of the schools I just listed are national powers on a yearly basis (Tennessee being the only arguable exception lately, but their recruiting class was tremendous before Kiffin took a shit on them so to garner an offer you'd have to be good).
  
  You have never once provided proof for the "facts" you present. Facts without proof are, well, not facts at all. There is a correlation between how good you are and who offers you. If you're very good, and very good program offers you 95% of the time. If you're mediocre, very good programs have a habit of not offering you a spot on their team. See how that works?
  
  Let's keep this train rolling along and maybe will get two birds with one stone. If very good players (very good programs giving them offers makes them very good players...see how I did that?) are offered by very good programs and yet still choose Notre Dame......well, that must mean in their eyes Notre Dame is still relevant. Holy shit look at that. One day sleeper may realize (it's doubtful though) no one gives a shit whom he finds relevant and irrelevant, people care whom national recruits think are relevant; and judging by the recruiting classes, Notre Dame is still relevant in the eyes of the people that actually matter.
• rock_knutne

  ^^^^Good post. Unfortunately your waisting your time trying to convince that knuckle head of anything. I made a list of several players who received multiple offers from big time programs, even OSU but that just flew over his head.
• Hamp89

  Is Walls really only a junior? Seems like he has been around for YEARS..and that's not a good thing.