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Welcome back to the OFD Big Board for June 10, 2014.
Defensive Tackle | |||||||||
Score | Player | State | Ht/Wt. | Temperature | 1* | 2* | 3* | 4* | 5* |
.905 | Darrion Daniels | TX | 6-3/290 | Cold | |||||
.911 | Neville Gallimore | ON | 6-3/300 | Cold | |||||
.991 | Rasheem Green | CA | 6-5/275 | Cold | |||||
.850 | Chance Hall | VA | 6-4/288 | Cold | |||||
.969 | Albert Huggins | SC | 6-3/279 | Cold | |||||
.889 | Du'Vonta Lampkin | TX | 6-3/291 | Cold | |||||
.984 | Kahlil McKenzie | CA | 6-4/330 | Cold | |||||
.987 | Tim Settle | VA | 6-3/318 | Cold | |||||
.927 | Darvin Taylor | VA | 6-2/295 | Cold | |||||
.889 | Elijah Taylor | OH | 6-3/285 | Hot | |||||
.986 | Shy Tuttle | NC | 6-3/315 | Cold | |||||
.971 | Christian Wilkins | CT | 6-4/290 | Cold | |||||
.920 | Joseph Wicker | CA | 6-4/265 | Cold | |||||
The big news from Sunday was (IN) DT Brandon Tiassum .866 committing to Notre Dame. The 6-5 285 pounder was listed as an offensive guard in last week's Big Board but has since been reclassified to defensive tackle.
Thank you all the school that recruited me and have given me a chance to play for them but now I am officially committing to Notre Dame #
— Brandon Tiassum (@tiassum) June 8, 2014
I'm officially committing to Notre Dame #fightingirish # http://t.co/izhdsjpEdp
— Brandon Tiassum (@tiassum) June 8, 2014
It appears that Notre Dame is looking to take one more tackle prospect in the immediate future and sit on a few of the elite recruits who may decide later in the cycle. That player is rumored to be Elijah Taylor who may have privately committed to Notre Dame over the weekend.
A pair of new offers have gone out since our last update. The first is to Neville Gallimore from St. Catherines, Ontario just across the border from Niagara Falls and Western New York.
Neville Gallimore smokes this poor center. Canadian DT recruit. https://t.co/1ePySgw6Zc
— SB Nation Recruiting (@SBNRecruiting) June 1, 2014
He's absolutely blown up over the past month picking up offers from Cincinnati, Miami, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oregon, Florida, Michigan State, Penn State, and Florida State. Gallimore impressed at the Columbus NFTC camp a couple weeks ago and plans on visiting more schools this summer and taking official visits.
Speaking of blowing up, it appears Khalil McKenzie has inserted his name for one of the top players in the country.
Fact RT @JulianBucio: No homerism but Kahlil McKenzie is the best high school DL prospect in the country. https://t.co/5OACpUp5f9
— SB Nation Recruiting (@SBNRecruiting) June 4, 2014
McKenzie has now moved up to 5-star status after taking home MVP D-Line honors at the Oakland NFTC camp. During our last update I thought Notre Dame was still hanging around for the De La Salle product but that no longer appears to be the case.
Top 12 pic.twitter.com/jRDws6KnCL
— Kahlil McKenzie (@KM1_Era) May 22, 2014
In late May the Irish offered Chance Hall from Roanoke, Virginia. The two-way lineman is carrying mostly eastern ACC offers and Virginia is heavily favored.
One of the latest commits is (LA) T.D. Moton .900 who picked Alabama. The one-time Mississippi State commit opened things back up months ago, was at one time looking at Notre Dame, but you can probably scratch him off the list now. Another player off the board is (CA) Jacob Daniel .971 who chose USC in mid-May.
I've downgraded Darrion Daniels to Cold. He's mentioned about visiting Notre Dame a bunch of times but still hasn't made any plans to get to South Bend.
No surprise but Notre Dame didn't make the Top 15 for Tim Settle. In the "don't get your hopes up" category both Rasheem Green and Shy Tuttle have mentioned they'll visit Notre Dame this summer.
Defensive End | |||||||||
Score | Player | State | Ht/Wt. | Temperature | 1* | 2* | 3* | 4* | 5* |
.901 | Michael Barnett | SC | 6-4/248 | Cold | |||||
.932 | Austin Bryant | GA | 6-5/245 | Cold | |||||
.982 | Jashon Cornell | MN | 6-4/260 | Mild | |||||
.991 | Byron Cowart | FL | 6-4/250 | Cold | |||||
.997 | CeCe Jefferson | FL | 6-2/250 | Cold | |||||
.893 | Dre'Mont Jones | OH | 6-5/250 | Mild | |||||
.950 | James Lockhart | TX | 6-3/260 | Cold | |||||
.990 | Keisean Lucier-South | CA | 6-5/225 | Cold | |||||
.941 | Darian Roseboro | NC | 6-3/293 | Cold | |||||
.997 | Josh Sweat | VA | 6-5/237 | Cold | |||||
.910 | Darrell Taylor | VA | 6-4/220 | Cold | |||||
.853 | Micah Dew-Treadway | IL | 6-5/275 | Mild |
The most recent offer at end is to Micah Dew-Treadway who comes out of Bolingbrook, Illinois. He'll be visiting a bunch of East Coast schools in Syraucse, Virginia, Maryland and UConn before coming to South Bend tomorrow and Wisconsin afterward.
UMM I JUST GOT OFFERED OFFICIALLY BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME!!!! #WEMADEIT #BLESSED
— BLESSED1⃣1⃣ (@DewTreadway11) May 30, 2014
Treadway plans on committing by the end of June and with the recent verbal of Tiassum I'm not sure Notre Dame is going to be able to accept MDT if he wants in on this class. Although he's listed as a strong-side defensive end he's probably more of an interior prospect over the long term.
A couple of prospects have chosen schools since our last update. First, (GA) Natrez Patrick .963 chose the in-state Georgia Bulldogs, while (NC) Sterling Johnson .903 chose Clemson. Keep an eye on Patrick though as he is supposed to visit for Irish Invasion.
Notre Dame is still running third for Dre'Mont Jones (behind Ohio State and Michigan) but a visit to campus is in the works. I still think he'll be a legitimate choice for Notre Dame if the Buckeyes turn their attention to bigger fish.
Another "don't get your hopes up" moment as Byron Cowart is supposed to visit campus later this month.
Notre Dame may be on the fringe with the nation’s No. 1 prospect Byron Cowart, but he said he’ll visit the Irish later this month.
— Irish Illustrated (@NDatRivals) June 6, 2014
Cowart is the No. 1 overall prospect according to Rivals (hence the tweet) and the 15th overall prospect according to the 247 Composite. At any rate, it's not likely that the Irish pull him out of Armwood High School.
We're still keeping tabs on Keisean Lucier-South who has said he'll take an official visit to Notre Dame for the Stanford game.
Notre Dame came by today
— Keisean South1⃣6⃣ (@KLSouth16) May 13, 2014
The Jashon Cornell recruitment continues to take twists and turns. Many Irish fans are ready to give up but he still has 3 more months until he commits before his first high school game. He visited Michigan State and temporarily named the Spartans his leader. However, Cornell's last two visits have been to Ohio State and the Buckeyes appear to have grabbed a lot of the momentum. A big piece to the puzzle will be whether or not he visits Penn State on June 21st or comes to the Irish Invasion.
Inside Linebacker | |||||||||
Score | Player | State | Ht/Wt. | Temperature | 1* | 2* | 3* | 4* | 5* |
.911 | Asmar Bilal | IN | 6-3/205 | Mild | |||||
.880 | Tevon Coney | FL | 6-2/225 | Cold | |||||
.985 | John Houston | CA | 6-3/211 | Cold |
The big news for the Irish was the flip from Penn State of (IN) Josh Barajas .924 who committed to Notre Dame a couple weeks ago.
An item of note as Tevon Coney has been reclassified to inside linebacker. He'll also be visiting Notre Dame later this month for a couple days.
Can't Wait To Visit Notre Dame In A Couple Weeks
— Tevon Coney9⃣ (@TevonConey) June 1, 2014
Some more good news on the visitor front as John Houston will be making several summer trips including to Notre Dame at the end of June.
Asmar Bilal still remains the most likely linebacker to join the program. He's coming off a recent visit to Missouri, and will visit Tennessee and Northwestern soon. He'll most certainly come back to South Bend (possibly for Irish Invasion) and hit up Michigan again, too. The Wolverines and Irish look like the favorites.