DJ Morgan is a 6’3″ 200lbs. 3-4 Star commit from St. John Bosco HS in Bellflower CA. He joins the 2016 Class and we do need Safety’s. Originally committed to ASU he almost made his commit at the Texas game. He could see playing time in 2016 similar to Tranquill – situational or from what
Class Guy – UMASS coach Mark Whipple. Mark probably gave ND every possible offensive formation that they will see all year. Also every screen play, he really threw everything possible at them and UMASS had 20 points in the first half. The ND defense, early on looked awful. Almost like a sandlot team. While passing
The Irish surprised everyone with a smothering of the feared “option” attack. Tip of the hat to VanGorder and staff for an attacking defense that seemed to come from everywhere. The DL played as hard as one can and Joe Schmidt was everywhere (10 tackles) as was Drue Tranquill until he was injured on a
Adding fuel to the fire we now learn that GT HC Paul Johnson has an extreme dislike for Brian VanGorder that goes back years. It’s bad enough that Johnson has been waiting to bring a legitimate team into ND stadium and get revenge for his Navy losses. Well, Johnson is bringing a prolific high scoring
Brian Kelly led off the press conference speaking about injuries with the latest TE Durham Smythe out for the season and these were not preventable – it’s just just football. Questioned about ILB Grace, we learn he is dinged up with ankle and hamstring issues. What the hell was he doing on the kickoff team?
Paul Johnson, the cerebral HC at Georgia Tech has been waiting years to come into ND Stadium with a real football team as opposed to when he was at Navy. Now he has first class athletes and they are not outweighed 50lbs per man. Think Navy on steroids and after watching the UVA game, where
Better unpack your luggage, you are not going to the Final Four. ND once again displayed a schizo personality and did not carry over or expand on it’s win over Texas. After a good start ND, once again, had trouble scoring TD’s in the first half which would have led to a blow out in
Finally, an Opening Game that ND looked like the teams of yore. Malik Zaire had a game that kids dream about, starting his first game in the Opener in ND Stadium – 19/22 313 passing yds, 3 TD’s including a 66 yarder to Will Fuller. Zaire looked confident, poised and accurate. Tarean Folston went down