Elijah Hood decommits from ND
Per the Twitter world, RB Elijah Hood has decommitted from Notre Dame.
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Elijah Hood de-commits from #Irish per @TomLoy247 http://bit.ly/14YsT5G
August 20th, 2013 at 4:46 PM ^
Don't forget the kids who actually enroll and then quit.
Almost scary thinking about ND if no one decomitted or left the program.
August 20th, 2013 at 7:27 PM ^
will be champions.
August 20th, 2013 at 9:04 PM ^
Decommit like a champion today
August 21st, 2013 at 3:18 AM ^
Gotta admit, it's pretty admirable the way you came on here even when we're ripping your program this fiercely.
August 20th, 2013 at 3:01 PM ^
August 20th, 2013 at 3:01 PM ^
Some things never get old.
August 20th, 2013 at 3:03 PM ^
I wonder what drives the insane amount of decommitments / flameouts of ND's recruiting classes of late vs Michigan which has had like 2...or 3 (Pharaoh, Conley...) decommitments under Hoke.
/insert picture of purple Brian Kelly
but in all seriousness, they've had a heck of a time actually getting their highly ranked classes onto the field
August 20th, 2013 at 3:16 PM ^
Anthony Standifer is the only other one I can remember from the Hoke years. Although he was more for academic reasons (allegedly).
August 20th, 2013 at 4:13 PM ^
Prospects from your home state/region are much more likely to stick to their commitment than one more than 500 miles away. ND has no home area, and the Big Ten has slowly squeezed them out of areas they were once strong in. In this day and age with almost every college football game televised, it is no longer that special to have your own NBC contract. Look at ND's recruiting over the last 10 years and see how few Midwest prospects they have. That tells the story right there.
August 20th, 2013 at 3:04 PM ^
Look at Steve Lorenz crystal-balling Hood to UNC on March 20th and never waivering despite his April committment to ND. Lorenz looking like a genius on this one.
August 20th, 2013 at 3:27 PM ^
24/7 doesn't let people change their predictions once a recruit is committed. Lorenz was one of many with a UNC prediction, which he couldn't change after Hood committed to ND.
Lorenz, however, was happy to bring attention to his brilliant foresight with a recent Twitter posting.
August 20th, 2013 at 4:50 PM ^
No matter what their process is, it looks like Lorenz will be right in the end.
Cut the recruiting guys some slack. There's a lot of competition, so tooting their own horn once in a while is understandable.
August 20th, 2013 at 5:26 PM ^
August 20th, 2013 at 3:05 PM ^
I knew setting up their gauntlet apparatus backwards would hurt their RB recruiting.
August 20th, 2013 at 3:14 PM ^
August 20th, 2013 at 3:29 PM ^
"You guys have got to be freaking kidding me!"
I don't see how Hood couldn't have seen that.
+1
August 20th, 2013 at 3:06 PM ^
but wasn't he trying to lure other recruits to ND ala the recruits coming to U-M? If so, what happened to all of that, I always get leery of kids doing this, it makes me wonder about their decision making and if it's the type of kids we want.
I know David Dawson did this too and re-committed, I'm just saying it's a questionable thing to do, it affects so many people:
-the coaching and who they continue to pursue or not.
-the other recruits whom might not get a chance to commit now because of having no more room for another player at said position.
-Screwing up the coaching staffs credibility with other recruits whom they were recruiting but stopped after another commitment and then having to try and recruit the spurned recruit again.
Recruiting is a bitch!
August 20th, 2013 at 3:29 PM ^
August 20th, 2013 at 3:39 PM ^
I think by "doing this" he meant decommitting. (I also had your interpretation at first, but his post only makes sense if you read it as meaning decommitting.)
August 20th, 2013 at 3:59 PM ^
that is what I meant, sorry for the confusion.
August 20th, 2013 at 4:33 PM ^
August 20th, 2013 at 3:07 PM ^
coaches in the NFL next year, he won't have to worry about this. He will have them under contract and can abuse the athletes at will.
August 20th, 2013 at 3:07 PM ^
August 20th, 2013 at 3:10 PM ^
Cool story, Father.
August 20th, 2013 at 3:47 PM ^
August 20th, 2013 at 3:12 PM ^
but it passes quickly once I change the channel.
August 20th, 2013 at 3:13 PM ^
Please clarify. You realized religion is a sham, that South Bend is creepy, or both?
August 20th, 2013 at 3:27 PM ^
August 20th, 2013 at 4:40 PM ^
Religion is creepy and South Bend is a sham?
August 20th, 2013 at 4:50 PM ^
Good Sir
August 20th, 2013 at 3:18 PM ^
But instead you became a murdering dark wizard? The grass is not always greener.
August 20th, 2013 at 5:40 PM ^
August 20th, 2013 at 3:38 PM ^
August 20th, 2013 at 3:40 PM ^
So what word did you mean in place of "discerning"? "Considering"?
August 20th, 2013 at 4:10 PM ^
but I figured maybe "discerning" had some special use applied to those considering the priesthood.... i.e. "passion" when dealing with Jesus.
August 20th, 2013 at 4:22 PM ^
You are correct - in the Catholic Church, we talk about "discerning" a vocation to the priesthood (or about becoming a monk or a nun). The idea is that you are attempting to discern whether or not God is calling you to that path, as opposed to considering one profession or another.
(Posted solely to explain word usage, not to start a religious discussion/debate.)
August 20th, 2013 at 5:25 PM ^
So I considered and rejected that hypothesis because of the past progressive tense. That'll teach me.
August 20th, 2013 at 9:14 PM ^
August 20th, 2013 at 4:34 PM ^
Was this before or after Hogwarts?
August 21st, 2013 at 1:19 AM ^
August 21st, 2013 at 9:57 AM ^
August 20th, 2013 at 3:11 PM ^
I am not a Brian Kelly fan, so I don't feel bad for ND. I wouldn't no matter who was coaching them.
Kelly will more than likely end up in the NFL, I cannot see him at ND for an extended period of time.
August 20th, 2013 at 4:21 PM ^
August 20th, 2013 at 3:17 PM ^
Interestingly, the Crystball Ball over at 247Sports, which in Hood's case has not been updated fuilly since late March (it is being changed as we speak), now has him pegged for North Carolina - granted, many of these were literally just updated, although a fair number were NC predictions from March and early April. Hood also had offers from Clemson, Duke, East Carolina, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Miami (YTM), NC State, Ohio State, Ole Miss, SOuth Carolina, Stanford, USC, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest.
August 20th, 2013 at 5:54 PM ^
I used to live in that neck of the woods ... back in 1984 to 1989.
That UNC-Duke-NC State triangle is actually a very nice part of the country.
UNC is a very beautiful campus, and Chapel Hill is a lot like Ann Arbor.
That said ...
Playing football at UNC is like going into federal witness protection. Down there fall is just a waiting period until basketball starts. Basketball rules, football is a distant second.
My experience was people from North Carolina are very proud of their state and their heritage and they like to stay close to home. No judgment, just an observation.
So if UNC, then it makes some sense. Certainly more than, say, playing for Duke or Wake Forest.
August 20th, 2013 at 9:05 PM ^
+1, Informative
The only person I know that cares about Carolina football has... absolutely no connection to the university whatsoever. The only game I watched last year was Carolina - Duke, and I rooted for Duke because the thought of Duke going to a bowl is hilarious and Carolina cheats anyway.
Fall Saturdays do bring lots of strange old people to campus but no one under forty seems to give a damn.
August 20th, 2013 at 3:25 PM ^
August 20th, 2013 at 3:28 PM ^
all we need is more crappy and uninteresting news about the Jets, ugh!!!
August 20th, 2013 at 3:40 PM ^
haha...I hate ND. I'm sure Kelly is having a fit.
August 21st, 2013 at 3:27 AM ^
The folks at OFD are crying their eyes out.
What was that, OFD? "Five-star RB Elijah Hood is Irish!"?