Rockne's Roundtable

I'd like to add that OSU = poo.

This is true, and I fling poo

Did you watch the piece on ESPN yesterday about Kiel flipping to Irish. At the end of the piece the sports caster turned to Hannah Storm and said you have been singing their fight song for over an hour now can you stop it. (Paraphrasing as I don't remember the exact phrase) So not everyone there hates us.

Well, of course not all at espn hate ND and what it represents. Magogian, first I was posting somewhat tongue in cheek. I have been a member of this site and known many people on here upwards of 10 years. However if you have truly followed recruiting over the last 25 years, which you may very well have done like I have you would have to agree that espn has verbal distaste towards ND, from several of their chatterboxes. Holtz being the one who while often is critical of bad choices being made and rightly so, still stands behind ND. As his coaching acumen will attest his stint at ND was a shining light, but only a portion of this career. Yet he gets what ND is about. Mark May is a hater, but I think that is more about ratings than true hatred. Anger sells. Kirk Herbstriet is probably the only truly unbiased guy they have. At least in what he says on air.

Also worth pointing out that ESPN is the only site who has Ferguson rated higher than 3 stars.... in fact, they have him as our 2nd best recruit and top 75 overall I believe. Does that mean they know something we don't know and Ferguson is planning on signing somewhere else? The team rankings between 5 and 15 or so are so fluid that there isn't much of a difference between those classes, typically 1 player or so. We jumped an average of like 7 or 8 spots with Kiel committing.

Stars don't mean sh*t when these kids walk on campus. I know we all want the love that Texas and Florida get on paper every February but Ill take a Boise State recruiting ranking if it means ND is gonna have 12 wins next year.

I am not versed in scouting, I leave that to the pros, so im not saying that they are wrong. I just have to wonder why they do this so often. Teo has proven to be a 5 star prototypical player, yet others have not. So while I often disagree with rankings, in the end its how they are coached collegiately and how much effort they put forward. Quinn was not a 5 star, but played like one for us.

miami = poo
and it tOSU to you.

Hannah was a few classes ahead of me at ND. She was one of the prettiest girls on campus, and seemed very nice. By the way, her name back then was Hannah Storen. Storm is just a catchy TV name, not sure if she legally changed it or not.

hey bob, its me acemang, how have you been? hows the family?

Ace, I almost never watch ESPN except for an actual game, but I will check their website occasionally, and what amuses me is the positioning of stories. I'm certainly not objective about this, but it does seem that other schools seem to get top billing for their good news, though the Kiel story was an exception.

The biggest reason Armstead has dropped is that he is adamant about playing defense. If he would be open to playing OT, he would probably be one of the two or three highest OTs in the country, if not the highest ranked one. All the sites rave about his potential, but it seems to me that they all believe he is better suited to OT than DE.

There is no ND bias there. It's just about that issue.