The Blue Board

Devastating. Must be nice for Sumlin to be able to sell a rabid fan base and 3 years of receiving from a heisman winner in a spread offense to WRs. Griffin is huge, I love looking at composite rankings for 'bigger' kids, I doubt ESPN even looks at film, oh this player is tall/heavy/fast for his position....move him up 100 spots. If I had to take one kid from your class it would be Golden, kid is a beast and would fit well in NDs 3-4.

It looks like all the receivers you take this year will have even more of a shot at playing time now that Thomas Johnson is leaving.

Yea, that is a really sad story. He has some issues and I really hope that he gets help. He told all of his teammates, before the season started, that God told him we would wear an all white uniform for the Bama game, and that we would win. He also told them that after the game he would take a journey. He is a really good kid, with tremendous athletic abilities. Hopefully he can get the help he needs and maybe come back, but first and foremost I hope he gets the help he needs. We are taking seven in this class, and one redshirted last season. Sumlin wants to have a rotation so that he can have fresh legs on the field. The kid that redshirted is Ed Pope, and he is a four star WR., 6'4 170. We will have some Height with our WR's, something like this:

Ricky Seals Jones: 6'5
Mike Evans: 6'5
JaQuay Williams: 6'4
Ed Pope: 6'4
Derel Walker: 6'4
Kyron Parker: 6'3
Quincy A: 6'3
Nate Askew: 6'2
Malcome Kennedy (game winning TD vs. Bama): 6'0

As ND continues to evolve its roster, speed and athleticism at the LB position was one of the needs to be on par with the SEC schools. The Irish certainly did that in this class landing cats like Jaylon Smith (the most athletic LB in the nation) and Alex Anzalone.

The entire Defensive class we're bringing in, we're just reloading

Balanced class when you have 34 kids.

Gotta love WR Ricky Seals-Jones, Gonzalez, Kyrion Parker and JaQuay Williams, and those are guys that compliment each other well.

The DL class is strong to with Justin Manning, Golden and Hardreck Walker.

A&M also did work in the secondary and have six LBs in the fold.

It's impossible not to love what's happening at A&M. You have Manziel there, a bunch of talent coming in, great head coach, in the best league in the country.

In talking to my boy Sonny Shipp who covers LSU and the state of Louisiana for us, sounds like Williams is a good-looking player on the hoof, tackles with an attitude and is strong against the run. Will need to become a more polished player on the next level but has the physical tools and athletic ability to be a solid contributor at A&M.

Sonny thank you very much sir. Since your here, could you tell me more about Noel Ellis? Thank you Steve, I appreciate your input.

I like Ellis and think he has very good instincts at CB. He has to since he has average speed but above average quickness. Most guys with his size and speed have to take a lot of chances, and are more susceptible to getting burned, but Ellis doesn't because he plays with such good awareness and has those type of instincts.

I question whether he will be that every down CB in the SEC when he gets matched up with bigger and faster WR's. I think he is a guy you put at nickel and do a lot of things with. I hate when everyone mentions the next Tyrann Mathieu but I can see Ellis being very successful in that type of role where you do different things with him and cover up some areas he needs to improve on.