<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.lexblog.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0">
   <channel>
      <title>True Gipper</title>
      <link>http://www.truegipper.com/</link>
      <description />
      <language>en</language>
      <copyright>Copyright 2010</copyright>
      <lastBuildDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:56:30 -0800</lastBuildDate>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:56:30 -0800</pubDate>
      <generator>http://www.movabletype.org</generator>
      <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> 

            <feedburner:info uri="truegipper" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://www.truegipper.com/index.xml" /><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.truegipper.com%2Findex.xml" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/my/addtomyyahoo4.gif">Subscribe with My Yahoo!</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/subext.aspx?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.truegipper.com%2Findex.xml" src="http://www.newsgator.com/images/ngsub1.gif">Subscribe with NewsGator</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://feeds.my.aol.com/add.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.truegipper.com%2Findex.xml" src="http://o.aolcdn.com/favorites.my.aol.com/webmaster/ffclient/webroot/locale/en-US/images/myAOLButtonSmall.gif">Subscribe with My AOL</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.truegipper.com/index.xml" src="http://www.bloglines.com/images/sub_modern11.gif">Subscribe with Bloglines</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.netvibes.com/subscribe.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.truegipper.com%2Findex.xml" src="http://www.netvibes.com/img/add2netvibes.gif">Subscribe with Netvibes</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.truegipper.com%2Findex.xml" src="http://buttons.googlesyndication.com/fusion/add.gif">Subscribe with Google</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.pageflakes.com/subscribe.aspx?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.truegipper.com%2Findex.xml" src="http://www.pageflakes.com/ImageFile.ashx?instanceId=Static_4&amp;fileName=ATP_blu_91x17.gif">Subscribe with Pageflakes</feedburner:feedFlare><item>
         <title>Liar Liar: Lane Kiffin</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; USC has stayed classy of course like usual and chosen Lane Kiffin to become their next head coach. Kiffin quickly bolted out of knoxville after just one year one the job. He left the university with no problems at all just a couple NCAA violations. So the Tennessee students/fans/alums are more then furious. On Tuesday students gathered around and chanted &amp;quot;F*** you Kiffin&amp;quot;, I wouldn't it a riot but it was close has UT students were lighting things on fire like a mattress, mostly paper, and in one video a guy made a torch. Some angry fans even raided Neyland-Thompson Sports Complex and yelled at Lane Kiffin when he was telling his ex-players that he will be very loyal and leave them. I'm sure they were all very proud of him.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;object width="384" height="216" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="ESPN_VIDEO" data="http://espn.go.com/videohub/player/embed.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all"&gt;
&lt;param name="movie" value="http://espn.go.com/videohub/player/embed.swf" /&gt;
&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;
&lt;param name="wmode" value="opaque" /&gt;
&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /&gt;
&lt;param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /&gt;
&lt;param name="flashVars" value="id=4823919" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Lane Kiffin was introduced as the Head Football Coach at USC on Wednesday. It went just as planned, full of lies. Lane Kiffin actually got into an argument with LA times writer TJ Simmers about how Lane Kiffin said he wouldn't recruit any UT&amp;nbsp;players unless they called him. Turns out his good assistant Ed&amp;nbsp; Orgeron has already called UT commits, that means theres a good possibility that Kiffin did to. After Kiffin started saying things over again he confused everyone when trying to explain the commit situation that SC AD Mike Garret had to stand up, stop Kiffin from being an idiot, and to of course get a new question going. So Kiffin has started out great, couldn't be better. Now going into this conference i knew i was going to at some point just start laughing. I&amp;nbsp;was hoping for some trash talk against ND. Or just him saying &amp;quot;I cant wait to commit some major recruiting violations after we beat Notre Dame next year. Its going to be a blast!!&amp;quot;. I'm just glad we have Brian Kelly.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; USC sent the wrong message to the NCAA&amp;nbsp;about cleaning up their act. SC did the opposite of cleaning up their act when they hired a guy who has a past of recruiting violations. Kiffins violations have all been secondary violations unless the most recent one about hostesses turns out true and ends up more then just a secondary violation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; At this moment, I cannot wait for ND vs SC next year. No matter what the records are this game will be remembered. It's the classy Brian Kelly vs the most hated college football coach in the country Lane Kiffin. I really wish recruits would start questioning this guy. He has nothing. He is not loyal at all and he is selfish. I hope we destroy him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/oNy2iWgbLyI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/oNy2iWgbLyI/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2010/01/articles/football/liar-liar-lane-kiffin/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Brian Kelly</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Ed Orgeron</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles">Football</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Lane Kiffin</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">USC</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:47:36 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2010/01/articles/football/liar-liar-lane-kiffin/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>Irish add depth at QB</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Brian Kelly got another solid commitment today, solidifying the depth at quarterback. &lt;a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Andrew-Hendrix-94603"&gt;Andrew Hendrix&lt;/a&gt; recommitted to Notre Dame today, choosing the Irish over the Gators. Hendrix originally committed to Weis and his staff all the way back in june. Here's an &lt;a href="http://www.truegipper.com/tags/andrew-hendrix/"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; from back in june from Truegipper. Hendrix is now the second QB in the class high school class of 2010. &lt;a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/notredame/football/recruiting/player-Tommy-Rees-92282"&gt;Tommy Rees&lt;/a&gt; from Lake Forest, Illinois is the other QB who enrolled early so he can practice with the team in the spring. To add to the depth at quarterback Nate Montana transferred back from Pasedena College.&amp;nbsp;Some even thought that WR John Goodman would be moved back to QB (use to play QB in high school). Now with the Irish gaining Montana and Hendrix this week, Goodman will stay at wideout.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I would like to see Kelly bring in a more mobile QB in the years to come. I liked the play of Cincy QB Zach Collaros last year, he rushed for 325 yard in 5 games when starting QB Tony Pike was hurt. It wasn't like ColIaros had blazing speed, he just had good speed for a QB. am not questioning at all what Brian Kelly is doing, I am just saying that I think a mobile QB would only be for the best. Plus it would be pretty awesome to watch. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/V_J5xlg7JHY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/V_J5xlg7JHY/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2010/01/articles/football/recruiting/irish-add-depth-at-qb/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Andrew Hendrix</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Brian Kelly</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Nate Montana</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles/football">Recruiting</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Tommy Rees</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:47:44 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2010/01/articles/football/recruiting/irish-add-depth-at-qb/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>Irish Recruiting outlook with Carrol gone</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;With Pete Carrol leaving USC; Brian Kelly should have for now SC commit &lt;a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/notredame/football/recruiting/player-Kyle-Prater-87247"&gt;Kyle Prater&lt;/a&gt; on speed dial. Kyle Prater was suppose to go to class at USC&amp;nbsp;today but with Petey gone Kyle is at home in Hillside Illinois weighing his options with his family. Kyle has been to Notre Dame a number of times and made his official visit to Notre Dame for the UCONN game. Just because the Irish lost on senior day to a marginal opponenet doesnt mean Prater won't come to South Bend. First off different coach, second off Manti Te'o was at the Syracuse game last year and he couldnt stay outside in the cold for the whole game. Also if the Irish can get Kyle's good friend/teammate &lt;a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/illinois/football/recruiting/player-Corey-Cooper-82549"&gt;Corey Cooper&lt;/a&gt; then maybe that could push Kyle over the ledge to South Bend.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Seantrel-Henderson-71634"&gt;Seantrel Henderson&lt;/a&gt; spoke before the Army All-American game on Saturday and said Carrol leaving will definitely effect his decision. Henderson is down to six schools Florida, Miami, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, and USC. Miami appears to be the long shot while at the moment with Carrol gone the front runners appear to be Florida, Notre Dame, and Ohio State.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The coaching and football are second to the education and situation Seantrel would be in. We know he's going to play, and get opportunities, and get as close as he can to a title...&amp;quot; - Seantrel Henderson's father&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Again we see this. This is with most recruits where their parents love the education that Notre Dame brings. This was the same story with Manti Te'o last year. Coach Brian Kelly (I love saying that) could make a huge recruiting statement for years to come if he could pick up Prater or Henderson.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/2g6A9Rh2Tuw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/2g6A9Rh2Tuw/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2010/01/articles/football/recruiting/irish-recruiting-outlook-with-carrol-gone/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Corey Cooper</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Kyle Prater</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Pete Carrol</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles/football">Recruiting</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Seantrel Henderson</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">USC</category>
         <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:07:17 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2010/01/articles/football/recruiting/irish-recruiting-outlook-with-carrol-gone/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>Kelly keeps Alford</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;Today many media outlets are reporting that coach Brian Kelly will only retain running backs coach Tony Alford from the Weis era. This shouldn't be a huge surprise to anyone. Last week I wanted our new coach to retain great receivers coach and recruiter Rob Ianello but he was chose to become the head football coach at Akron. I am happy that Kelly held onto at least one of the coaches from the Weis staff because of recruiting reasons. Tony Alford is a solid coach to bring back, in only his first recruiting season with the Irish; he has gotten verbals from top recruits &lt;a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/notredame/football/recruiting/player-Giovanni-Bernard-87823"&gt;Giovanni Bernard&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://rivals.yahoo.com/notredame/football/recruiting/player-Louis-Nix-84329"&gt;Louis Nix&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Coach Kelly will likely bring along a handful of coaches with him from Cincy. He will almost certainly bring long time offensive coordinator Jeff Quinn. Only problem is Jeff Quinn could get coaching gig somewhere else. Yesterday Cincinnati chose Central Michigan head coach Butch Jones which eliminated a job for Quinn to take. I wouldn't be surprised though if Central Michigan takes a look at Quinn.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/izX5V55PIlM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/izX5V55PIlM/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/12/articles/football/kelly-keeps-alford/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Brian Kelly</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles">Football</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Giovanni Bernard</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Jeff Quinn</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Louis Nix</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Rob Ianello</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Tony Alford</category>
         <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:41:51 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/12/articles/football/kelly-keeps-alford/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>Weis.</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;Charlie Weis failed to take Notre Dame to the glory it deserves but I will always respect him.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Weis gave us a thrilling five years of ups and down. He's one of the biggest reasons why I am such a huge Irish fan today. Three days after Weis was fired he called up Irish commit Daniel Smith and told him that he shouldn't think elsewhere just because he isn't the coach anymore (&lt;a href="http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2009/12/notre-dame-recruit-weis-called-me-told-me-to-stay.html"&gt;read full story here&lt;/a&gt;). He's the bizarro George Costanza. I couldn't respect him more, I wish him the best luck in his next job.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was ten years old at the end of the Ty Losingham era. I&amp;nbsp;would still watch the games during the Willingham era at times but it was never quite as exciting as things were during Weis' time in South Bend. By the seventh game into the Weis era i loved Notre Dame and hated USC more than anything in the world. Charlie Weis was in the process turning the Irish into an offensive machine. Quinn to Samardzija was becoming a saturday tradition. That was the season I became a devoted Fighting Irish fan; I watched every minute of every game and checked for news on a daily basis.&lt;img width="250" vspace="3" hspace="3" height="375" border="3" align="right" src="http://www.truegipper.com/uploads/image/Brady Quinn&amp;amp;Charlie Weis.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;People can continue to hate Weis and say we (Notre Dame and its fans)&amp;nbsp; are no better off than we were five years ago. We're a whole lot better than we were five years ago. Weis has consistently convinced great recruits to come to Notre Dame. He made Irish fans believe. He put Notre Dame back in the recruiting world. A great part about that is, he got alot of them to commit to the University not just him. For example to our knowledge only one commit from the upcoming recruiting class has decommited. That was DE Chris Martin, who was the top commit of the Irish class. Although he did decomitt today Notre Dame landed a top 100 recruit today DE Louis Nix. Weis has put the next head coach in a perfect position. The next coach will inherit at minimum a former five stat recruit Dayne Crist at QB and arguably the best reciever in the nation in Michael &amp;quot;The Cannon&amp;quot; Floyd. He will inherit a talented defense that with some coaching could reach a very high level. Stars on the defense will include sophomore Manti Te'o, junior Brian Smith, junior Ethan Johnson, junior Kapron Lewis Moore, etc. Notre Dame will probably lose only five starters from last year whom are Jimmy Clausen (NFL draft), Golden Tate (NFL draft), and seniors Eric Olson, Sam Young, and Kyle McCarthy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While Charlie Weis has teed up this job for the next person to take over, he's also set a new precedent and a dangerous standard. He's proven that you can recruit to this frigid blue collar town, even when you're six games below .500. He's shown there's no reason Notre Dame cannot be an elite program&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With a good coach next year don't be surprised to see the Irish in the middle of the BCS picture. I'm looking forward to it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/Li8cGbAUBq0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/Li8cGbAUBq0/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/12/articles/football/weis/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Brady Quinn</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Charlie Weis</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Chris Martin</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Daniel Smith</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles">Football</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Jeff Samardzija</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Louis Nix</category>
         <pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:22:11 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/12/articles/football/weis/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>It's Over</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Looks like the Charlie Weis era will soon be in the past. The Irish have to win out for Weis to have a somewhat good chance of staying. Winning out won't easy, Weis has to beat Pitt and Stanford, two teams that will most likely finish the season ranked. Weis hasn't even beaten two teams that have finished ranked in the top 25 in his life. Even if Weis wins out and losing in a bowl game he should still be gone. There is no reason why this Irish team should have four losses. Its unacceptable. When Weis came in has head coach in his press conference he stated that being a 6 and 5 football team was not good enough for us (obviously) and that it certainly wasnt good enough for him. Well Charlie you have a pretty good chance of having five losses this year. That is simply not good enough.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Yeah, yeah. I&amp;nbsp;know we will in be in almost the same situation we were in 5 years ago. It breaks my heart to see us have to fire another coach. Especially after seeing such a successful and quick turnaround in 2005. But look on the bright side we could bring in a proven head college football coach in Brian Kelly. We will have great players for sure for about the next 3 years after the recruiting Weis did. This team would come in next year has if we have had the same great coach for years. We would immediately be a top 25 team at minimum with Brian Kelly&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/UHp6I4oj85k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/UHp6I4oj85k/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/11/articles/football/its-over/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Brian Kelly</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Charlie Weis</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles">Football</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Pitt</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Stanford</category>
         <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:05:05 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/11/articles/football/its-over/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>"The Cardiac Kids"</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;Notre Dame just pulled it out yesterday against Boston College ending a six game skid against the Golden Eagles. The Irish won a close game 20-16 because of five golden eagle turnovers going to the Irish. People have been calling this years team &amp;quot;The Cardiac Kids&amp;quot; and have been praising them for playing the full 60 minutes. I'm happy they have been competing the whole game but alot of these close wins should be huge blowouts in the Irish' favor. Notre Dame should not be playing down to their opponents skill level week after week. We shouldnt be having close games against Michigan State, Purdue, Washington, and Boston College. At least 2-3 of those games should be huge blowouts. You could even say that Notre Dame played down to the skill level of Michigan but i give respect to Tate Forcier playing a great game that day. If Notre Dame doesnt stop this they will end with two more losses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I&amp;nbsp;attended a prime example of what Notre Dame should be doing. I woke up yesterday and found out I had a ticket to the Oregon Vs. Washington game. Right when I found out, I downloaded the Notre Dame central app on my iphone allowing me to watch the Notre Dame game while being at the Washington game. So I got to see Oregon put away their opponent the Washington Huskies in the 3rd quarter. Notre Dame should be doing this. They should be coming out strong to start the 2nd half and proving that they belong in the top 25. Instead Notre Dame lets their opponent hang with them the entire game.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/QqpEUAr6jnA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/QqpEUAr6jnA/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/10/articles/football/the-cardiac-kids/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles">Football</category>
         <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:45:32 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/10/articles/football/the-cardiac-kids/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>Wait til' Next Year?</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;The Irish fall 4 yards short of greatness. Just 4 more yards for Notre Dame and they would control their own destiny to play in a BCS bowl. Clausen came up 4 yards short of of potentially winning the Heisman Trophy. So now what happens? Clausen plays great rest of season and gets invited to&lt;img width="205" height="225" border="2" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.truegipper.com/uploads/image/charlie-weis-.jpg" /&gt; New York for heisman ceremony and Notre Dame ends up playing in the Gator Bowl. Some might think that we've done well to improve over last year but that's really not important. We're Notre Dame and our expectations should always be BCS win or bust.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I dont want to keep having to say wait til next year. I want &amp;quot;just wait til the title game&amp;quot;. We (Notre Dame fans) have been talking about the future for the past 5 years. In 2005 it was just wait til' next year we will have Brady and Samardzija back. I&amp;nbsp;know we went to a BCS bowl in 2006 but we lost big to Michigan, USC and LSU. In 2006 we were all hype with National Title expectations; we werent looking towards future but immediatley after USC game in '06 i know at least I was saying &amp;quot;Oh just wait til we have Jimmy Clausen, no stopping him and all of our great recruits&amp;quot;. My dad bought 6 tickets to that SC game in '06 so that my me and the rest of my family could go down and see a&amp;nbsp; Notre Dame win. I left Southern Cal wanting redemption. Right after I left I thought about when next our best chance to get redemption against SC would be. It was this game, Clausen as a junior, at home. And again, we fell short. I&amp;nbsp;probably shouldnt even talk about 2007; that year was only for the future. Again in '08 we were waiting for our great recruits to transform into great players. Well our great recruits are all emerging (Clausen, Tate, Floyd, Rudolph, etc.) but still we are left waiting for next year. Just waiting for those players to lead the Irish to greatness. I dont know about the rest of you but I am sick and tired of waiting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I'm not gonna say that I don't think that our future is bright but I don't think our future has us winning a title game with Weis. I will reconsider keeping weis if we go undefeated the rest of the way and a win over a decent oponent in at least the Gator Bowl. Otherwise, we should bring in Jon Gruden. He would be that hard-nosed but fun loving college f&lt;img width="240" vspace="1" hspace="4" height="225" border="2" align="left" alt="" src="http://www.truegipper.com/uploads/image/jon-gruden-p1(1).jpg" /&gt;ootball coach. Pete Carol-esque?. If we were to bring in Gruden we would keep most of our defensive and offensive recruits like Martin and potentially more recruits that we might get this week. The recruits would look at Gruden's defenses with the Bucs and would come right to Notre Dame. I know it was Monte Kiffin coaching defense with those Bucs teams but Gruden would bring in that tough defensive attitude and possible some NFL assistants with him.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If Notre Dame wins out or just loses a barn-burner in &amp;nbsp;a bowl game, Notre Dame should bring Weis back and see what he can do with Clausen. I&amp;nbsp;dont think it would be a good idea to bring in a new coach and system when you have Clausen, Tate and Allen all seniors.There's a good chance it'd be Floyd's last year as well. Could be a complete waste of year for those great players. &amp;nbsp;I would like to see what this offense could do next year rather than seeing all these great athletes waste a season. Would be better to do a coaching change the following season and bring in new system with Crist , Theo Riddick and Shaq Evans all being juniors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After this past loss to USC, Charlie's seat has gotten alot hotter. No more room for mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/4_pWDLNm1ug" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/4_pWDLNm1ug/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/10/articles/football/wait-til-next-year/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Brady Quinn</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Charlie Weis</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Clausen For Heisman</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Dayne Crist</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles">Football</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Golden Tate</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Jeff Samardzija</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Jimmy Clausen</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Jon Gruden</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Kyle Rudolph</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Michael Floyd</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Shaq Evans</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">USC</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:55:44 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/10/articles/football/wait-til-next-year/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>Could this be the year?</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;This weekend I'm hoping to see Notre Dame beat USC for the first time in my life that I can remember. I don't remember any sports earlier than the year 2000. The first USC vs ND&amp;nbsp;game&amp;nbsp; that I remember is the game where Carson Palmer won the Heisman. I know that some of you will think to yourself &amp;quot;oh this kid has barely been an Irish fan, this game doesnt mean has much to him&amp;quot;. It means more than anything to me. A Notre Dame win would pretty much bring tears of joy to my eyes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img width="300" height="183" border="2" align="right" src="http://www.truegipper.com/uploads/image/clausenmatthew.jpg" alt="" /&gt;For the past seven years the Irish have lost to the trojans and all of them other than the &amp;quot;bush push&amp;quot; game they have been blowouts. The difference between this game and the rest of them, the irish players actually believe they are going to prevail. Do I think Notre Dame will win? I&amp;nbsp;think that if the offensive line protects jimmy and if the pass coverage steps up when Tenuta tries to stop the run then I think Notre Dame will win. Yeah thats alot to ask. But I feel like no matter who we are playing, we are going to put up at least 24 points. On the weather its suppose to be about 45 degrees or colder at kickoff but will continue to get colder throughout the game. The weather will help the Irish defense the most. With tenuta selling out to stop the run, the cold weather could get to barkley causing him to make bad passes. Clausen said the weather affected him the first time he practiced in the cold in South bend, he said he was throwing ducks all over the field. So hopefully it takes Barkley sometime to get use to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/t2QRBhBFZrY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/t2QRBhBFZrY/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/10/articles/football/could-this-be-the-year/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles">Football</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Jimmy Clausen</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">John Tenuta</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Matt Barkley</category>
         <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:06:43 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/10/articles/football/could-this-be-the-year/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>Irish take on Washington at home</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img width="150" height="241" vspace="2" hspace="2" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090927/capt.46e4d464cfe84b179e7dedbf00ee6887.notre_dame_purdue_football_wlf115.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This Saturday, Notre Dame will take on Jake Locker and his somewhat inconsistent Washington football team. The Irish are a little more healthy than last week so expect more from Jimmy Clausen and Armando Allen; though you will still probably see Dayne Crist at times because Jimmy's turf toeis still hurting him. Expect to also see that Wildcat offense; however, I'm guessing Allen will be taking the snaps when in wildcat instead of Golden Tate. But only because Allen was hurt, I would like to see Golden take some snaps after seeing how effective he was in that formation last week.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This week I am very curious to see what Tenuta does with the defense against a moblie quarterback in Jake Locker. Tenuta let up big numbers to Forcier but that was probably a byproduct of Rich Rodriguez' spread offense. Weis and Tenuta said they expect to see more of freshman Manti Te'o this week and throughout the rest of the season. Teo's speed in pursuit should &amp;nbsp;very helpful to Tenuta Jake Locker when it comes to containing locker and limiting gains when he does move outside the pocket.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/WTMifDZkdUo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/WTMifDZkdUo/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/10/articles/football/irish-take-on-washington-at-home/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Armando Allen</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles">Football</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Golden Tate</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Jake Locker</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Manti Te'o</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Washington Huskies</category>
         <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:50:39 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/10/articles/football/irish-take-on-washington-at-home/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>The past is in the past: Irish will rebound against Michigan State</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;After a disappointing loss at The Big House on Saturday many people compared this 2009 season to the 1999 season. After &lt;a href="http://www.uhnd.com/articles/football/lets-party-5161/"&gt;seeing this comparison at UHND&lt;/a&gt;, I think the Irish will go in a different direction than the '99 team did. I&amp;nbsp;do not think Charlie Weis and the Irish team will let that happen this year. Coach Weis noted that many more players than usual were coming into his office telling him they have forgotten about Michigan and are only looking ahead to Michigan State. After last week I think Michael Floyd has certainly established himself has one of the premiere wide receivers in the country, right there with Dez Bryant. Second coming of Tim Brown? Maybe too early to say that, but the kid can ball. Who knows how that Michigan game plays out if with him on the field, even serving as a distraction and pulling one more man outside the box.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;nbsp;expect Clausen to continue to impress, keeping the offense in rhythm with the aid of the best wideout duo in the nation. This week's offensive attack will be centered around Clausen and those receivers after MSU&amp;nbsp;let up 328 yards passing to Central Michigan QB Dan Lefevour. He may be the working man's Tim Tebow, but it's still Central Michigan and they're still from the MAC.&amp;nbsp;I'm expecting a big day for Tate and Floyd who will do more than mirror Central Michigan's top receivers who combined for 191 yards and 16 receptions.  The losing streak&amp;mdash;both this one-gamer and the lengthy one to MSU&amp;nbsp;at home&amp;mdash;will end. Irish win, 35-14.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/kRbWAvsRoeQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/kRbWAvsRoeQ/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/09/articles/football/the-past-is-in-the-past-irish-will-rebound-against-michigan-state/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Charlie Weis</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Dez Bryant</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles">Football</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Golden Tate</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Jimmy Clausen</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Michael Floyd</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Michigan State Spartans</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:56:01 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/09/articles/football/the-past-is-in-the-past-irish-will-rebound-against-michigan-state/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>South Bend billboard blasts Charlie Weis</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img width="320" height="240" border="1" align="middle" alt="" src="http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=SB&amp;amp;Date=20090901&amp;amp;Category=News01&amp;amp;ArtNo=909019940&amp;amp;Ref=AR&amp;amp;Profile=1021&amp;amp;MaxW=480" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The timing on this probably could've been a lot better.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20090901/News01/909019940/1021/Sports%22"&gt;One fan's take, courtesy of the &lt;em&gt;South Bend Tribune&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, it's just as much of a surprise to us as it was to everyone else,&amp;rdquo; said Greg Delinski, General Manager of Linebacker Inn.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Delinski says his establishment had nothing to do with the billboard; but it sure is generating a lot of comments on the street.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;And now they put this up on this end of the campus with the home opener coming up and you have recruits coming in and the team is trying to get motivated,&amp;rdquo; one fan told WSBT News.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No, this probably isn't going to pump up anyone for the home opener but honestly, is this that creative? Sounds dumb to me. Oh hoah hoah hoah, it's funny because he's a head coach but an intern! Hilarious. Sounds like these linebackers were hit a little too much.&amp;nbsp;Then again, I'd make a fat joke or something.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/egG_e_aSAFY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/egG_e_aSAFY/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/09/articles/football/south-bend-billboard-blasts-charlie-weis/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Charlie Weis</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles">Football</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:43:48 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/09/articles/football/south-bend-billboard-blasts-charlie-weis/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>Christian Lombard Interview</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;After I did the &lt;a href="http://www.truegipper.com/2009/06/articles/football/chris-martin-q-a/"&gt;Chris Martin Q and A&lt;/a&gt; , I&amp;nbsp;really wanted to do another so I&amp;nbsp;asked Christian if he would be interested. Certainly enough, he said yes. Here's six questions with the prized Irish recruit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I know Chris Martin has been recruiting other recruits to come to Notre Dame like Kendall Moore. Is there any recruits you are trying make go to ND?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been talking mostly to Chance Carter on and off. Just trying to build a relationship.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How close are you to the Coaches at ND? Which ones? and Hows your relationship with Coach Weis?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img width="150" height="220" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.truegipper.com/uploads/image/CHRISTIANLOMBARD09AC150.JPG" /&gt;I have a really good relationship with Coach Ianello. He&amp;rsquo;s been there since step one with me. Also I&amp;rsquo;m talking to Coach Verducci and building a relationship. Coach Weis played a big role in me committing. He was very understanding and helped me through the process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the main reason why you committed to ND?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;They made me feel comfortable and apart of their family even before I committed. Also the education was a very strong selling point for me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which NFL player do you model yourself after? Why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I would have to say Joe Thomas. I am pretty athletic like him and a very hard worker.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you think you will make an impact your freshamn year?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I know it&amp;rsquo;s going to be a tough transition from high school to college but I think if I work hard enough, I could earn a spot. Like Chris (Martin) said, I don&amp;rsquo;t expect anything to be given to me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are you going to enroll early in the spring?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No. I&amp;rsquo;m going to enjoy my last year of high school.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your time Christian. It is much appreciated.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My next Q and A&amp;nbsp;will be with Irish commit Kendall Moore. Some other Q and A's in the future will be Justin McCay and Bennet Jackson.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/7NUJx2ns27Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/7NUJx2ns27Y/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/08/articles/football/recruiting/christian-lombard-interview/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags"> Chris Martin</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Bennet Jackson</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Chance Carter</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Christian Lombard</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Coach Ianello</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Coach Verducci</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Coach Weis</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Justin McCay</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Kendall Moore</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles/football">Recruiting</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">TrueGipper Q&amp;A</category>
         <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:35:23 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/08/articles/football/recruiting/christian-lombard-interview/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>ESPN Gives Irish and Chris Martin No Love</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Today ESPN came out with their first ESPN rankings for the 2010 class. In the first ESPN 2010 college recruiting rankings in their top 150 they put Irish commit Chris Martin at 146. Chris Martin was already named to the 2010 high school army all american game and other recruiting sites rivals.com and scout.com both gave Chris Martin a 5 star rating. &lt;a href="http://rivals100.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?ra_key=2369"&gt;Rivals.com&lt;/a&gt; has Chris at number 13 and the best weakside defensive end. Scout.com gives Chris a little more love and has Chris at number 6 and the best overall defensive end in the nation.&amp;nbsp;Chris said a few words about it earlier and showed he was very angry at it and he is just going to ignore it. He was mostly mad because he thinks espn is saying he is an ok player, and pretty much everyone knows he is one of the best high school players in the nation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I was talking to Utah commit &lt;a href="http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=80237"&gt;Kenneth Scott&lt;/a&gt; about the new ESPN&amp;nbsp;rankings earlier. He also was very angry about his ranking. ESPN&amp;nbsp;put Kenneth has the #91 wide receiver in the nation. I&amp;nbsp;mentioned to Kenneth about how Chris is number 146. Kenneth said &amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;Woow chris at 146???&amp;nbsp; He's one of the best DE/LB ive seen. . . .&amp;nbsp; Sheeesh they are trippin' bigtime&amp;quot;. I have just always valued Rivals and Scout.com's opinions more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By the way Chris was also the only Irish commit in the ESPN&amp;nbsp;150.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/HYLkXlCBj68" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/HYLkXlCBj68/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/08/articles/football/recruiting/espn-gives-irish-and-chris-martin-no-love/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles/football">Recruiting</category>
         <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:42:30 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/08/articles/football/recruiting/espn-gives-irish-and-chris-martin-no-love/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>Lo Wood joins Irish family</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;Lo Wood on friday became the 3rd recruit to commit to the Irish in two day and became the eighth&lt;img width="102" height="150" border="3" align="right" src="http://www.truegipper.com/uploads/image/LOWOOD.JPG" alt="" /&gt; recruit of the 2010 class. Wood is a cornerback out of Apopka High School in Apopka Florida. The 5-foot-8 160 lbs corner had other scholarships on the table from Stanford, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Michigan, Ole Miss, Virginia, Duke, Louisville, and N.C. State. Wood is 3 star recruit and 32nd best corner according to &lt;a href="http://notredame.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?sport=1&amp;amp;pr_key=68721"&gt;rivals.com&lt;/a&gt;. So Wood is not so great but not to bad and can always get better throughout his senior season at Apopka. I have also seen much worse recruits turn into star. Just like David Bruton of the 2005 recruiting class was a 3 star and the 36th best safety according to rivals.com. Other 3 stars have been Jeff Samardzija, Darius Walker, John Carleson. Those are just some my eyes came across as I&amp;nbsp;was looking at past recruiting classes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/tdwbkYsxHQs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/tdwbkYsxHQs/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/06/articles/football/recruiting/lo-wood-joins-irish-family/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags"> Darious Walker</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Football Recruiting</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Jeff Samardzija</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">John Carleson</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Lo Wood</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles/football">Recruiting</category>
         <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:34:44 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/06/articles/football/recruiting/lo-wood-joins-irish-family/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>......Another Commit for 2010</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;The Irish also picked up a commitment yesterday from the 6'5, 250lbs Blake Lueders from Zionsville Indiana.&amp;nbsp;Blake called the coaching staff on thursday and let them know he was committing to the Irish. The defensive end had 128 tackles has a junior for his local high school. He also has maintained a 4.0&lt;img width="102" height="150" border="3" align="right" src="http://www.truegipper.com/uploads/image/BLAKELUEDERS4_27150.JPG" alt="" /&gt; GPA which is always good. Lueders turned down 11 other scholarship offers from top schools including Purdue, Stanford, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Boston College, and North Carolina. Lueders is a 4 star recruit which is solid, he is the 14th best DE, and the 198th best recruit for this 2010 class according to &lt;a href="http://notredame.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?sport=1&amp;amp;pr_key=87531"&gt;rivals.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I believe this is a very solid pickup for the Irish.&amp;nbsp;They have been looking to upgrade on the defensive side and this only adds to it. The Irish did not pickup any defensive end commitments for the class of '09.&amp;nbsp;So picking up both Chris Martin and Blake Lueders for this 2010 class does a lot for the Irish.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/0RG7LtK-gL4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/0RG7LtK-gL4/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/06/articles/football/recruiting/another-commit-for-2010/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Blake Lueders</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles/football">Recruiting</category>
         <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:20:56 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/06/articles/football/recruiting/another-commit-for-2010/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>Irish get their QB</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;Irish picked up a verbal commitment from the Moeller High School quarterback out of Cincinnati Ohio. &lt;img width="112" vspace="3" hspace="3" height="150" border="2" align="right" src="http://www.truegipper.com/uploads/image/ANDREWHENDRIX5_19200.JPG" alt="" /&gt;Andrew Hendrix told weis and his staff today that he will be attending the University of Notre Dame come the fall of 2010. Hendrix was the 11 best pro style and the 200th overall player for the 2010 class according to &lt;a href="http://notredame.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?sport=1&amp;amp;pr_key=94603"&gt;rivals&lt;/a&gt;. I&amp;nbsp;am sure this is just going to be a backup plan if the Irish don't get a star QB in the 2011 recruiting class. But this is a very good pickup.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/GewWZjHZK2s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/GewWZjHZK2s/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/06/articles/football/recruiting/irish-get-their-qb/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Andrew Hendrix</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles/football">Recruiting</category>
         <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:13:40 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/06/articles/football/recruiting/irish-get-their-qb/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>Chris Martin Q &amp; A</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;Here's my email interview with Irish football recruit &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNGe7iK1O-4&amp;amp;feature=PlayList&amp;amp;p=4C04122B4946B744&amp;amp;playnext=1&amp;amp;playnext_from=PL&amp;amp;index=12"&gt;Chris Martin&lt;/a&gt;, one of the Irish's most highly touted recruits.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt; What are some recruits that you personally are trying to get to come to the Irish with you?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Some recruits i talk to on facebook are Kendall Moore, Kenneth Scott, David Amerson, Joshua Shaw, Devon Carrington, etc...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img width="250" height="334" border="1" align="right" src="http://www.truegipper.com/uploads/image/Chris%20Martin.JPG" alt="" /&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is your relationship like with the Notre Dame coaches? Which ones? Coach Weis?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have great relationships with coach Ianello, Polian, and especially coach hart.. He's probably been the most involved with me, not even recruiting but just looking after me. Coach Weis has took real good care of me as he helped me with my whole transfer situation to the Hun.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are you going to enroll early at &lt;span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1245527131_3"&gt;Notre Dame&lt;/span&gt; next spring?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No, no EE for me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which college&amp;nbsp; or NFL player do you model yourself after?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I'd say &lt;span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1245527131_4"&gt;Ray Lewis&lt;/span&gt;. I'm a gentleman off the field, but mean as hell on the  field.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of an impact do you think you will have as a freshman?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I hope to see a little playing time and hopefully play some meaningful minutes. But i don't expect anything to be given to me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do think Notre Dame will do when you get there? like 2009 recruit Cierre Wood said Notre Dame will beat USC a number of times when he gets there.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Haha, you know, i would like to beat them all four times but lets say we'll take it 2 times at our place and hope we can get something going down in L.A.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Much thanks to Chris. We look forward to him joining the Irish and wish him the best of luck.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/s2wUxv-cX90" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/s2wUxv-cX90/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/06/articles/football/chris-martin-q-a/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Chris Martin</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles">Football</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">TrueGipper Q&amp;A</category>
         <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:46:25 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/06/articles/football/chris-martin-q-a/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>Another Commitment: Alex Welch</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;The Irish got another verbal commitment on memorial day from tight end &lt;a href="http://notredame.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?sport=1&amp;amp;pr_key=90524"&gt;Alex Welch&lt;/a&gt; from Elder High School located in Cincinnati. He is a four star recruit and the #10 overrall tight end according to rivals.com. Then according to scout.com he is a three star recruit and the #7 best TE. A thing i like to look at to see how good a recruit is, by looking at the other scholarship offers he had. Welch had big offers from Boston College, Florida State, Michigan, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan State, North Carolina, and many other above average schools. I look at his offers more than anything because the colleges know alot more than anybody else. He will have to wait in line before he gets his time on the field. When he rolls on to campus in the fall of 2010 he will behind junior and starting TE Kyle Rudolph, senior Mike Ragone,&amp;nbsp; junior Joseph Fauria, sophmores Jake Golic and Tyler Eifert.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/llx_REPSZEE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/llx_REPSZEE/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/05/articles/football/recruiting/another-commitment-alex-welch/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/articles/football">Recruiting</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 17:05:51 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/05/articles/football/recruiting/another-commitment-alex-welch/</feedburner:origLink></item>
            <item>
         <title>Twitter</title>
         <description>&lt;p&gt;Hey you can follow me at twitter: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/connerokeefe"&gt;@connerokeefe&lt;/a&gt;. Many college coaches have twitters like Coach Weis, Pete Carrol, Rich Rodiguez, Bill Stewart of WVU, Steve Sarkisian of Washington. A very fun person on twitter to follow is Shaq. He is always giving away tickets by telling people where he is and the first person to touch him gets tickets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueGipper/~4/i1UaGtNuBtw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
         <link>http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/TrueGipper/~3/i1UaGtNuBtw/</link>
         <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.truegipper.com/2009/04/articles/twitter/</guid>
         <category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/">Articles</category><category domain="http://www.truegipper.com/tags">Coach Weis</category>
         <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:07:43 -0800</pubDate>
         <dc:creator>Conner</dc:creator>
      
      <feedburner:origLink>http://www.truegipper.com/2009/04/articles/twitter/</feedburner:origLink></item>
      
   </channel>
</rss>
