Robertson is a good pick up. Solid player that can play WR or S and gives them a nice base at either position while they chase the bigger fish
I was going to post a "We got Rebertson" thinking that it would trip up some people but thought better of it
He's versatile. He can play S or WR so depending on rest of class he can fill a spot with good talent
The shirt is bad imo. The back is just too busy and it looks like a cheap shirt you'd buy at a gas station imo. Looks worse in person, front looks good though.
Exactly what I was going to say. Front is good enough/simple, but the back is pure walmart. I also don't understand why they pick that color blue. Lastly, I'll say this every year, but ND needs to pick a shade of green and make the shirt that color every year without exception.
Agree on the green. I've got no idea why they would go with the shade of blue they did this year. It has nothing to do with ND's colors.
Met his parents at Down Under in Syracuse. His dad is equally massive. It's easy to see where he gets it
Elite 2017 DE and aspiring doctor Josh Kaindoh has been talking with #NotreDame surgeon Brian Ratigan for the last few minutes. This. This is good.
Would love to see that color green of the non contact jersey be worked into a shamrock series uniform. Kizer pretty clearly looks like the guy to me...though you can't really get a full glimpse of the zone read with Zaire in a spring game.
Was coming to say this. Way too many different color schemes. Pick a Green and use green yearly. I hate it at games too. People come wearing green, grey, gold, white, blue to games. Almost every school has as specific color. /rant
Feeling a lot better about wide receiver after that half. Hunter, Alize, EQ, and Stephenson all look like they can play at a high level. Stepherson looks like a mix between Golden Tate and Fuller. Probably not an elite trait like they had yet but I'm surprised with how good he looks.
I think Kizer is the guy, but I think Zaire should be the guy inside the 10 until Kizer proves he can throw the ball in the field of play.
The fact we have 3 quality guys means we can use qb runs and not have to protect qbs. Zaire in RZ would be nice.
Like what I saw out of Zaire and Kizer. Zaire hasn't lost a step whatsoever. we really seemed to have reloaded on offense. The massive OL helps of course. Defensively, I was pleasantly surprised. The DL made plays and held their own. Cage was disruptive to the point I noticed when he was in on plays. I really like Morgan in the middle, and Crawford was all over the field. Even Redfield had a good game. No injuries from what I could see was most important. Amazing what depth can do for a football team. Should be a fun year.
Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately the issue is with the shirt project. The fact that so much of it goes to charities means they have to change it up every year. It's awful, but I don't see it changing any time soon .
I don't have an issue with them changing it every year, but I wish they'd stay with navy, gold, or green. This is the first year in a while that I won't be purchasing one.
The sayings on the back are attributed to Fr. Ted, which makes me feel guilty about hating the back. But I still hate the back.
And I'm officially out of the hospital. Still feel like shit, but got some more pain meds coming this afternoon which will help. Felt very weird seeing the sun for the first time in 4 days this morning
I don't have a problem with the quotes themselves. The different fonts, banners, logos, etc. are what makes it terrible. Like someone else said, it's too busy.
Is there another Ohio State or something? Former Notre Dame tight end Chase Hounshell will play his final season of eligibility at Ohio State.
can someone with 247 access post please? - http://notredame.247sports.com/Article/Recruiting-Scoop-Notre-Dame-Spring-Game-44876881
@PeteSampson_ 51m51 minutes ago Sports Illustrated reports that five-star athlete Demetris Robertson will announce his college decision on May 2. haha
He's coming in as a Preferred Walk-On at TE for us. We need a little more depth there. Marcus Baugh is our starter and only TE with meaningful playing time in his career. RS-FR AJ Alexander is behind him and two True Freshman in Luke Perry & Jake Hausmann are coming this summer. I'd imagine Hounshell will be anywhere from our #3 to #5 TE option. Any feedback on the guy? Looks like he wasn't productive at all during his ND tenure. Was it because of injuries or what?
He came in on the DLine and never saw time. Converted to TE and never saw time or very limited. if I recall he was the one that was begging Kelly to give him a shot at another position to stay on the team. I may be wrong though. I hope he starts for you guys. Edit story in spoiler Spoiler SOUTH BEND — He was told repeatedly that there would never be a Senior Day for him, never an emotional last run out of the Notre Dame Stadium tunnel to the family who so staunchly stood by Chase Hounshell when he was prescribed to put away his dreams for good. Three surgeries in a small window on the same shoulder for one labrum tear after another robbed him of essentially two complete seasons and every drop of equity that the then-defensive lineman had earned with the Irish coaches during some productive flashes his freshman season, in 2011. Yet last winter, the Kirtland, Ohio, product marched into coach Brian Kelly’s office with a plan to reinvent himself as a tight end, four years removed from being part of a ground-breaking, defensive line recruiting haul that promised to and delivered the missing piece for a national title run. “He was not promised a scholarship,” Kelly said Thursday evening after practice as the CFP No. 4 and AP sixth-ranked Irish (8-1) prepped for Saturday’s Senior Day matchup with Wake Forest (3-6). “I pretty much told him that we didn’t know if we would have one and he’d pretty much have to come back on good faith and work his way through spring. “He said, ‘I’ll do that and I’ll take my chances.’ And you’ve got to give a young man credit for that. “He wanted to be part of the program, and he’s respected by everybody because of the way he did that and went about his business every single day and worked at it and came back from three surgeries and three rehab situations to earn a scholarship in his fifth year. “So whether he played a down or not, that’s a lot to accomplish.” And Hounshell has played and contributed significantly at a position that’s come to define Notre Dame (Tight End U.) in the past decade. But it’s also one that was first hit hard by Ben Koyack’s graduation last spring and, in mid-September, by the only member of the 2015 tight end corps who had a career catch on his college résumé, junior Durham Smythe, being lost for the season with a knee injury. Hounshell, now a grad student whose penchant is blocking but who would love to garner his first career catch on Saturday, has played in all nine games this season, with starts against USC and Temple, after amassing cameos in just 11 games total in his first four years on campus — seven of those coming his freshman season. “My only regret has been that I didn’t switch to tight end freshman year,” Hounshell said. “It’s been amazing. “You have all these mind-sets when you’re 18 years old and a freshman. After my first game, I was like ‘I’m going to be a starter next week, and the week after that a first-round draft pick. I’m going to be so good.’ “Obviously, you can’t predict that I’m going to have three shoulder surgeries in a row or anything like that, but it’s really just dealing with adversity, and just God has a plan. And you’ve just got to work your butt off, and it’s all going to work out in the end.” It took going against his doctors’ strong recommendations and some extreme twists of fate out of his hands, though, to allow all of that to happen. Notre Dame’s offseason roster was overflowing beyond the projected NCAA scholarship limit of 85 well into summer. And that was with expected early deletions such as safety Eilar Hardy’s transfer to Bowling Green, no fifth year options offered to players such as cornerbacks Jalen Brown and Josh Atkinson as well as defensive end Anthony Rabasa, wide receiver DaVaris Daniels leaving for the NFL Draft, and offensive lineman Conor Hanratty’s retirement for medical reasons. But it took even more unexpected ones to get the number low enough for Hounshell to have the opportunity to be awarded a scholarship for 2015. That included grad-style transfers Everett Golson (Florida State) and Matt Hegarty (Oregon), medical hardships for tight end Mike Heuerman and linebacker Michael Deeb, the release from a national letter-of-intent for February defensive end signee Bo Wallace (Arizona State), and the transferring out of defensive ends Jhonny Williams (Toledo) and Kolin Hill (Texas Tech) as well as running back Greg Bryant (ASA Miami). Yet the numbers, even when severely stacked against him, have never fazed Hounshell. Maybe that’s part of being from an athletic family and one that can count resilience as its most dominant trait. Chase’s older brother, Chad, dealt with recurring back issues while playing on the offensive line at Central Florida, and is now a football coach at Richmond Heights High School in Northeast Ohio. Twin sister, Colette, meanwhile, uncannily had to undergo three surgeries in a small window on the same ankle — each with six-month rehabs — yet persevered over what was considered a career-ending injury to finish her career as a forward for the St. Francis (N.Y.) College women’s basketball team. Sound familiar? Every school but one, Notre Dame, recruited Chase, an All-State, two-way star at Mentor (Ohio) Lake Catholic, as an offensive tackle. That included Florida, the school to which he originally committed. “In high school I was 240, 245 (pounds),” Hounshell said. “(Coach) Urban Meyer wanted me to enroll early, so I could get my weight up in the spring and stuff, and then he ended up retiring at the time. “So then I ended up decommitting and coming here for defensive end, which is what I wanted to play, because I felt like my frame — when you’re a senior at 240 pounds, it’s hard for you to imagine yourself at 310. “It’s like I don’t know if I can put on 70 pounds. That’s a lot of weight for me to put on to start playing. So I kind of wanted to play defensive end. I thought that was more my body type. I don’t know why back then I didn’t think ‘I should just be a tight end.’ ” The identity of his ND recruiting class was defensive line talent, in quantity and quality. Highlighted by five-star prospects Stephon Tuitt, Aaron Lynch and Ishaq Williams, six other players in the 23-man class were initially projected as defensive ends and/or outside linebackers as well. They were Troy Niklas, Ben Councell, Anthony Rabasa, Tony Springmann, Brad Carrico and Hounshell. Saturday he’ll be the last man standing from that group of nine. Three of them are in the NFL, Lynch first transferring to South Florida after a freshman All-America season and bombing out there. Others were ravaged by injury or just never blossomed as expected. The 23-man class, as a whole, has as many players celebrating Senior Days elsewhere this month — Golson, Hegarty, Hardy and Josh Atkinson (Azusa Pacific) — as it does coming out of the Notre Dame Stadium tunnel on Saturday. Linebacker Jarrett Grace, center Nick Martin and defensive back Matthias Farley join Hounshell not only in the celebration Saturday but as players who all season helped provide the toughness, the wherewithal, and, yes, the stubbornness to fuel Notre Dame’s ascent into a team that’s relevant in the playoff discussion when it’s starting to matter. “Whether he catches a pass or not, we’ll have to see,” Kelly said of Hounshell, “but he has contributed to our success this year.” The most serendipitous wrinkle in a season full of them for Hounshell is that he has done enough in a renaissance season of sorts in 2015 that a sixth year of eligibility, either at ND or elsewhere, is a reality he can explore. Hounshell has already applied to the NCAA, just in case. Or, with a management consulting degree in hand, he may head to Chicago to take a consulting job he’s been offered there or perhaps to New York to work on Wall Street. “Right now I’m not even thinking about that,” he said of his own future. Instead he’s marveling at the future of the Notre Dame tight end group, which gets Smythe back next season and presumably more refined versions of sophomore Tyler Luatua, redshirt freshman Nic Weishar and true freshman Alizé Jones. “I feel like we have so much talent in that room, and we all do different things,” he said. “And once we get those little things perfected, our tight end room is just going to be off the charts. “We mesh real well together. We’re all smart kids. We know the playbook. We know how to play defenses. Once we keep perfecting our crafts, we’re going to be phenomenal.”
He did have a pretty significant injury early in his career that derailed him. I think he actually played a little bit as a freshman.