Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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FOOTBALL RECRUITING to attending a track meet or baseball game. While coaches are limited to one call per prospect, which is either used earlier in the period to make initial contact or to- ward the end of it to be the last impression, the prospects are able to call the coach at any time. Nor- mally after a college coach visits a prospect's school he'll forward a message via the school's head coach to the re- cruit to give him a call when he gets out of school so they can discuss the program's interest contact allowed between the prospect and the college coach during the school visit is a "bump," a quick greeting while walking the hallway, out to practice, etc. further. The only summer months and the college coach tries to get worked into the routine of weekly calls the recruit makes. Notre Dame hit the road aggressively following the Blue-Gold Game on April 21 and landed its 12th verbal commitment in the first week when Irish assistants Tony Alford and Scott Booker vis- ited tight end Mike Heuer- man of Naples, Fla., on April 26 (see page 44). The coaches were able to The visits may be standard check-ins for the prospects that already possess an offer from the visiting institution, but the spring evaluation pe- riod also allows college programs to see prospects they've been tracking, helping in the decision on whether to offer a scholar- ship or not. Those offers can either be for- warded through the high school program's coach or extended when the recruit follows up with the college coach later in the day by making a call. Some of the key topics during the phone call include a deeper look at what the col- lege program has to offer and how the recruit fits into the system and depth chart. Visit dates are suggested for the spring/ The 6-6, 295-pound Colin McGovern is listed as the ninth- best player in the state of Illinois. He gave his pledge to the Irish on the same day as Hunter Bivin after visiting campus. PHOTO COURTESY 247SPORTS Alex Anzalone of Reading, Pa., will be in town. They'll be surrounded by Irish com- mits three-star cornerback Devin Butler of Washington, D.C., three-star wide receiver James Onwualu of St. Paul, Minn., Heuer- man and Zaire. Defensive line four-star target Isaac Ro- chell of McDonough, Ga., is scheduled be on campus on June 3, and he still has Notre Dame as his favorite with tentative plans to take his official visit for the Michigan game on Sept. 22. Another Irish offered four-star defensive end, Tashawn Bower secure a visit with five-star outside linebacker Jaylon Smith of Fort Wayne, Ind., who made a trip to campus on May 12 with his father, Roger. The in-state pros- pect, who is considered to be Notre Dame's top target in the class, has the Irish among his top three with Ohio State and USC. He's set to return in mid-June when four-star linebacker recruit JUNE/JULY 2012 83