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Notre Dame's Class Ranking!!!!

  • I know a lot of people don't believe in them but with the latest commit, and moving up to 3rd class ranking, I got thinking. Has Notre Dame every actually finished with a #1 class? Anyone think it could happen this year? I know it is only July but I feel this could make for great conversation. I believe the 17 commits we have are only going to get better. I hear much more great things about these commits and I feel as the players get reevaluated throughout their senior seasons we have a better chance of them gaining more stars as oppose to losing stars. I hear several of our 4 star commits could earn a 5th (Alex Anzalone, Isaac Rochell, hunter Bivin, Malik Zaire potentially) and also our 3 star commits could earn a 4th (ie...Devin Butler, Cory Robinson, potentially). We only have 17 commits right now I believe, and if we gain a few more starts upon reevaluations and I also think we will get a few more big time commits in much needed areas (optomistic!!!) we might just end up with a #1 class ranking for 2013. Don't beat me up too bad!!! Lol!!! Thoughts???

    KJ2

  • Gerry Faust had a #1 rated class, I believe. I am certain Holtz had at least one top rated class under Vinny Cerrato.

    Frito Bandito

  • Frito Bandito said...

    Gerry Faust had a #1 rated class, I believe. I am certain Holtz had at least one top rated class under Vinny Cerrato.

    Didn't he have like a stretch of 3 '91 to '93?

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  • Notre Dame had #1 recruiting classes from 1981 to 1984. During Holtz's time they had the #1 class from 1987 to 1990. Vinny Cerrato was let go after the 1990 season and recruiting suffered in 1991. They had the #1 or #2 class in 1993 (Ron Powlus class) and then #2 in 1995 (would have been #1 with Randy Moss and James Jackson who were never admitted).

    #1 class in 2008 (enrolled rankings after Alabama lost 5 to grades and baseball).

    ScanlonIrish

  • ScanlonIrish,

    You're pretty much right on the button. The 1984 class, though, definitely was not No. 1, and close to not even top 10. At the time it had only 17 players signed (when you could take 25 to 30). Four of them were QBs (Terry Andrysiak, Tom Byrne, Pat Pasavento and Duke St. Pierre (Pasavento eventually started in baseball, Byrne moved to tight end and St. Pierre transferred to Boston College before the season began, I believe), and only one lineman. it featured Tim Brown and also had people like Franks Stams and Cedric Figaro, but this class wasn't strong all around, and some bad years under Faust may have begun the process of people shying away from ND a little more.

    Tom Lemming had the 1992 class No. 1, but everyone else considered more between 3 to 7. The class with Powlus in 1993 was generally considered top 5. Bob Davie also had back-to-back top-4 classes in 1998-1999, and Ty's 2002 and 2003 (Brady Quinn and Co.) were also in the top 10.

    From the time recruiting rankings became mainstream in 1978 until 2001 (Davie's last year), Notre Dame finished in the top 10 of at least one recruiting service every year. It's the exception rather than the rule when ND isn't in the top 10 of at least one service, and almost always in the top 15.

    The exceptions were 2004 (17 recruits) and 2005 (15 recruits) — and the results showed with a 3-9 record in 2007, when those classes were juniors and seniors and had a total of 17 players left.

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