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Don't stop thinking about tomorrow

No, that's not a reference to the latest amazing message of "hope" from the Dems (although, even more than when John Edwards promised to make the lame walk, Obama's promises to "heal a nation and repair the world" - and attendant Messianic swooning by voters and media alike - are both hilarious and cringeworthy).

Ahem. But, this post is supposed to be about football. Having put last year's excruciating season behind us, the Irish had an excellent day at National Signing Day two weeks ago, and we have a few graduated players with good prospects at the NFL combine coming up. At National Signing Day, the Irish landed a balanced class - ranked in the top two recruiting classes in the country by most observers - of 23 very promising players. Blue-Gray Sky ran profiles of each player when they originally committed, and they have a nice roundtable summing up the outcome. For myself, I've enjoyed watching the highlight videos of Dayne Crist in particular (and also WR Michael Floyd - great receiver, and doesn't go down easily!), and his enthusiasm for coming to Notre Dame is a great thing. He commented (although I can't get the video to play on NBC) that he isn't fazed at all by coming in only a year behind Clausen, because he thinks the competition will be a good motivator for both of them and he welcomes the challenge. With regard to coaching, Charlie Weis has already made a lot of changes for the coming year - e.g., he'll step back from offensive playcalling and focus a bit more on special teams; Jon Tenuta is joining the staff as assistant head coach, but will work with the linebackers in particular - which hopefully will have the effect of correcting a lot of last year's problems.

Finally, for the few players we have heading to the NFL, check out Trevor Laws's blog here. He always seemed to have a lot of energy on the field and in interviews - it absolutely comes through on his blog, too! Good luck to him - and to Zibby, Carlson, and Sullivan, who are also preparing - at the combine.

Full post as published by Irish Law on February 21, 2008 (boomark / email).