I think Greg Pauley was the last recruit in WI. There are plenty of linemen to pick the litter, but we seem to have no impact in the State. Beidatsch from Marquette might have arrived after Pauley. I know they offered the kid from Kettle Moraine this past year, but he chose Madison.
Kelly's needs are better filled in Georgia.
talent in each state.
bowl games that ND ended its ban on participating in bowl games.
the UPI already had them crowned as National Champs because they didn't do a poll after the Bowl games. They changed the following year. It's one of Bama's 273 National Championships
Bucky vacuums up many of the top recruits and lets other schools like Iowa. Michigan St., and Indiana fight over the scraps.
However, we've offered only 1 kid in this current cycle from WI. It seems like we're not interested in spending time in the state. This has been happening for the past decade and a half. ND recruits nationally, but it's a short drive to WI.
at least by the recruiting star system, which is the easiest metric for us to use to measure such things. Given the limited time coaches can be on the road for recruits, it makes sense to focus on the best possible recruits, not ones that are a relatively short drive away.
This will be Kelly's 11th recruiting cycle as ND head coach. In that timeframe, Wisconsin has produced 12 4-star recruits total per 24/7. There are probably 25 high schools that can top that number.
1942 likely was a better recruiting class than the famed '46 class...included Lujack, Sitko, Dancewicz and others...but a War got in the way
1942
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Was a bit curious to find out where Bob Kerrigan went to HS. There was a Bob Kerrigan who played for Bishop Bradley, a Manchester Catholic High School which merged with two others in the city to form Trinity High School in 1970 (Dan Mullen's alma mater).
However, from what I can determine from online news articles, this Bob Kerrigan was a senior in 1960, which would have made him a frosh at ND in '61 unless he went to prep school for two years before enrolling.
Notre Dame.
When it came time to pick a college, Notre Dame was an easy choice. His father and two uncles went to Notre Dame. Belden was the seventh of seven Beldens to go to Notre Dame during his generation.
“It was always my dream to play at Notre Dame,” he said. “I didn’t get to play as much as I wanted.”
His timing wasn’t great.
Belden played behind Terry Hanratty and Joe Theismann, both of whom would go on to win Super Bowl rings.
Bob has an interview for the 1969 class blog (Walsh69 if I remember). here is an excerpt from an interview with Bob which indicates Bill Belden was an uncle:
My cousin, Bill Belden, Jr., became president of Belden Brick in 1983. He called and asked me to return to Canton as vice president of marketing, including market and sales analysis. I could not refuse.
As an added note, the Dept of Science had a basketball league in the spring. Our math squad was quite good until March 17th when Ara called Mr Belden back to duty and we reappeared as a bunch of nerds.
have kept the 1971 complainers quiet for a bit. The recruits you listed played key roles in one or more games.