(Notre Dame Football Recruiting News) – Ben Koyack | TE ESPN Grade 81 | Scout: ***** | Rivals: **** Top 100 Hometown: Oil City, PA| Oil City High School Height 6’5″ | Weight 225 lbs. Under Armour: Koyack outperformed the number one rated TE in the country, Jay Rome and was a force all week. Runs great routes,…
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Recruiting, Stars and RKGs

(Notre Dame Football Recruiting News) – See also: Recruiting Video Review (The Rock Report) – The bottom line on this recruiting class, as new head Coach Brian Kelly readily acknowledges, is that it’s not good enough for Notre Dame and coming after last year’s disappointing class, Kelly has his work cut out for him in…
Kelly and Leadership, Part II: Coaching the Coaches
See also: Kelly and Leadership, Part I: Developing Players from the Inside-out See also: Will Kelly’s Offense Work at ND? See also: Brian Kelly and the Secret Sauce (The Rock Report) – When Brian Kelly announced his assistants he said he was looking for “great teachers, great educators, great communicators,” but he also highlighted what…
Snow Globes
Hailing from an old Irish family, I had no shortage of old Irish great-aunts growing up. And like so many old Irish great-aunts, mine were into snow globes. Every couple weeks when we’d pile into the station wagon and head over to Canaryville to “make the rounds”, I’d see dozens and dozens of them gathering…
The Invincible Invisibles?
Coach Kelly is certainly following through on his stated recruiting strategy of going after big skill players who can play a number of positions. Here’s what Kelly told Irish Eyes: “Big skill is profiling out, if I could take 20 guys who are tough gentlemen who fit the profile at Notre Dame academically and were…