Football Recruiting During May

Many topics…and an entire summer to discuss each one. A few to start off with…

First, Notre Dame fans…do not allow the lack of verbal commitments (how ever little a verbal commitment means nowadays) detour positive thoughts. Recruiting, to date, has been good. Excellent? No. Good? Yes.

As for the immediate future, Shrive's commitment to Penn State caught many off guard, including Nittany Lions' fans. That's recruiting. On to the next recruit, which in this case makes Stavion Lowe a much bigger priority than he was before, despite the fact he's held a Notre Dame offer for quite some time. With that in mind, and considering I'm as a big an underclassmen recruiting junky as anyone, Notre Dame is allegedly doing well with a couple of top OT recruits for the class of 2010, Seantrel "The Franchise" Henderson and Christian Lombard, from Minnesota and Illinois respectively. Additionally, Ian Gray, the son of a former ND player, is a name to watch from Pearland, Texas. He will be another major Division I recruit, at least if the early prognostications are correct. As always, time will tell.

Quarterback recruiting certainly looks to be interesting this year, although next year's quarterback recruiting will be even more interesting (Tyler Arndt, et al). Notre Dame needs a quarterback that will stick around. Will Jon
Budmayr be the recruit to do just that?

Overall, June will be a good month for Notre Dame Football recruiting. The annual high school football camp will beckon several top recruits from across the country. Plus, there will be a number of recruits making unofficial visits. Commitments will follow, as they do each year. Until that time, just weather the storm as a Notre Dame Football fan. May is not the most exciting month. Better times are ahead. Then again, a few recruits, including Corey Brown, the CB/WR from Gateway HS in Pennsylvania will be headed to Notre Dame this weekend. Perhaps Brown will make Notre Dame fans a little happier with a pledge to the Irish.