The Willingham Effect - Offensive Line Recruiting Under Ty and Charlie

Michael Collins by Analyst Written on July 13, 2008
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Mattes-Sr                                   Eric Olsen

                                                                                            Matt Carufel

Total - 15                                        

6 incoming recruits. 6 departures for 2007

Sam Young is the first freshman in the history of Notre Dame to start on the offensive line from the first game of the season.  All Weis’s recruits are four or five star rated except Webb.  The new recruits have chosen Notre Dame over Florida, Iowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma State.  Weis crisscrossed the county in the spring, reestablished relationships with high school coaches especially in former Irish strongholds in Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Pennsylvania, and extended recruiting into Florida, California and Texas.

 

Bemenderfer transfers from Northwestern to Notre Dame.  Sullivan comes back for a fifth year rather than go to the NFL.  The base of the iceberg is being built with quantity and quality.

 

But the perfect storm is about to hit Notre Dame’s offensive line in 2007. 

 

The Perfect Storm Hits the Offensive Line 

2007                        

 

                            1st Team            2nd Team           Reserves              Recruits

Seniors - 1             Young-Soph       Romine-Fresh         Webb               Lane Clelland

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