Thomas Harper and Gabriel Rubio are expected to return from concussion protocol.

Plus notes on Jaden Greathouse, Pat Coogan and Blake Fisher.

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Notre Dame men’s basketball 2024 shooting guard commit Sir Mohammed, 2025 shooting guard target Jalen Haralson and 2026 point guard target Steven Reynolds III attended the USA Basketball Junior National Team Minicamp this weekend.

The events took place in Colorado Springs (Co.). Players sat through meetings with coaches and NBA personnel, participated in drills and played five-on-five scrimmages.

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Mohammed, a four-star prospect, attends Charlotte (N.C.) Myers Park and is ranked as the No. 66 overall player in the 2024 class.

The Irish are expected to host Haralson, a five-star out of La Porte (Ind.) La Lumiere, on Saturday during the football game against USC. He is the No. 10 overall player in the 2025 class.

Reynolds is a local prospect from South Bend (Ind.) Washington that head Coach Micah Shrewsberry has identified early and already got on campus twice. Reynolds is not currently rated or ranked.

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Here are the Notre Dame 2024 and 2025 commits and targets expected to visit Notre Dame on Saturday to watch the Irish host USC.

Inside ND Sports will work to confirm with each recruit throughout the week and add them to the running visitors' list thread.

2025 LB target Brett Clatterbaugh

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2025 TE target Linkon Cure

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2025 TE target James Flanigan

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2025 CB target Dallas Golden

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2025 WR target Koby Howard

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2025 VYP target Dominik Hulak

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2025 CB target Kevyn Humes

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2025 WR target Daylan McCutcheon (confirmed)

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2025 CB target Trey McNutt

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2025 LB target Noah Mikhail

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2025 DE target Damien Shanklin (confirmed)

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2025 OT target Owen Strebig (confirmed)

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2025 CB target Cree Thomas (confirmed)


2024 QB target Anthony Rezac (PWO)


2024 S commit Taebron Bennie-Powell (confirmed)


2024 QB commit CJ Carr


2024 WR commit Micah Gilbert


2024 CB commit Karson Hobbs


2024 S commit Brauntae Johnson


2024 OL commit Anthonie Knapp


2024 TE commit Jack Larsen


2024 OT commit Styles Prescod (confirmed)


2024 LB commit Teddy Rezac


2024 S commit Kennedy Urlacher


2024 LB commit Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa


2024 LS commit Joe Vinci (PWO)

2024 WR commit Cam Williams (confirmed)


2024 DE commit Bryce Young


2024 RB commit Kedren Young


2025 QB commit Deuce Knight


2025 DE commit CJ May (confirmed)


2025 RB commit Justin Thurman (confirmed)

From Sunday's 3-0 victory over Clarkson ... from und.com ....

GOALS

• Irish freshman forward Maddox Fleming carried the puck along the boards into the Irish zone before sending the puck around the back of the net to Jayden Davis who beat his defender to the puck. Davis then fired a no-look shot on net, beating the Golden Knights netminder for the go-ahead tally at 4:21 of the second period. It was the first collegiate point of both Davis and Fleming’s careers with the Irish.
• After peppering the Clarkson net through the first minute of the third period, the Golden Knights attempted to clear the puck but Grant Silianoff blocked out the rush and kept the puck onside for the Irish. Skating it in, Silianoff fed a pass over to Danny Nelson who was posted up at the back door for the tap in goal. The tally gave the Irish the 2-0 lead at 1:13 of the final period and was the first career goal for D. Nelson.
• Landon Slaggert net his second of the weekend to round out the Irish scoring Sunday night, on the powerplay. The elder Slaggert dished the puck up to Trevor Janicke along the boards who quickly centered it where L. Slaggert fired a shot home. Paul Fischer set up the initial play and was credited with a second assist on the goal for his first career point.

KEY STATS

• Three Irish found twine Sunday night as the Irish defeated the Golden Knights, 3-0, to split the season opening series.
• With the first two goals coming off the sticks of freshmen, four newcomers tallied first career points in the win. Jayden Davis and Danny Nelson each tallied their first career goals while Maddox Fleming and Paul Fischer earned assists Sunday night.
• For the second consecutive night, the Irish outshot the Golden Knights, boasting a 24-22 edge over the visiting team.
• Ryan Bischel posted his first shutout of the season, and eighth of his career, with the 3-0 win.
• D. Nelson led the team in shots on goal Sunday, firing five pucks on net for a weekend total of 11. The freshman forward also led the team in blocked shots with three.
• L. Slaggert’s powerplay goal in the third period was his second tally in as many games.

UP NEXT
The Irish travel to Rochester, New York, for a one-game series at RIT. Puck drop against the Tigers is set for 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, on FloHockey.tv.

NOTRE DAME 3, CLARKSON 0: Box Score

From Saturday's 3-1 Irish loss to Clarkson ...

Does anyone else feel that this is the best team to compete for a National Title since the 90's? Granted we made the playoffs and played for a National Title in 2012 but we knew the other teams were superior to ND. With no real dominate team I truly feel ND can compete for a National Title this year. I know we lost to Ohio St. but I know we can beat them. If we can run the gauntlet of the remaining schedule (which I know won't be easy) but if we could, I would think we have every right to make the playoffs and have as good a chance as anyone to win it. Just curious what others are thinking

Why don’t our analysts want to admit just how poor out offensiv line has been all year. Can’t effectively pick up a blitz, can’t run block well enough to pick up third and 1 or 2 yards to convert and backs can’t even get back to line is scrimmage frequently, and can’t effectively give our quarterback time to throw the ball. Our receiver group is not deep enough to compete with any really good team and run poor routes. and seem to never come back to help the quarterback find any of them when they can’t get open soon enough. Play calling is not creative and does not use enough mid- direction to help the quarterback and running backs. And , for additional comment, why can’t the coaching staff teach our defensive linemen to raise thei arms to disrupt the passing lanes of opposing quarterbacks and maybe deflect more passes?

I identified these five plays as the ones that best defined Notre Dame's loss at Louisville:

1. Sam Hartman’s first interception
2. Ashton Gillotte’s sack of Sam Hartman
3. Notre Dame’s fumbled third-and-1 handoff
4. Jawhar Jordan’s first touchdown run
5. Marist Liufau’s facemask penalty

What did I miss?

While I’m covering 2024 offensive tackle Styles Prescod on Friday night at Fishers (Ind.) Hamilton Southeastern in a separate thread, I wanted to create this thread that is focused on keeping up with the other commits in Notre Dame's 2024 and 2025 recruiting classes on Friday evening.

I won’t be tuned in as much as I normally would to their progress during the games but will work to bring any updates I can find from X (Twitter). Inside ND Sports plans to do a deeper dive into their performances later Friday evening and into Saturday as stats become available and players update their Hudl highlights.

Look for this thread to start rolling around 7 p.m. ET when most players kickoff. 2024 wide receiver commit Logan Saldate and 2024 linebacker commit Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa will start their games a little bit later around 10 p.m. or 10:30 p.m. ET.

I'll also monitor 2025 targets like four-star wide receiver Talyn Taylor, three-star linebacker Dominik Hulak and four-star cornerback Mark Zackery and bring any updates from their performances.

It won’t happen but why not let him go to confession and bring him home? I know… holier than thou BS.

Irish are tied with UCLA as the unranked teams receiving the most votes, so technically 17th. My ballot is at the bottom of this post. I formulate a Top 25 out of habit, though only the top 16 count in this poll. Coaches and AP polls still to come.



HANSEN'S BALLOT

1. Washington
2. Georgia
3. Ohio State
4. Florida State
5. Oklahoma
6. Penn State
7. Michigan
8. Oregon
9. USC
10. Texas
11. Alabama
12. Oregon State
13. Louisville
14. North Carolina
15. Ole Miss
16. Notre Dame
17. Duke
18. Utah
19. UCLA
20. Washington State
21. Tennessee
22. LSU
23. Kentucky
24. Kansas
25. Air Force

I came to this realization and it makes it easier to except things. They will not do what needs to be done to get Championship level players. I breathe, relax and realize the truth.

I was browsing the undergrad offerings and there are quite a few programs / degrees in the school or Arts and Letters 38 to be exact.

Is this a recent thing? For some reason I was under the impression that the school/college only had 12-15 degree programs.

Some of you idiots were like “Oh, new guy here”. Lol. My great grandfather ran track at ND, I’ve been around the block. This line is the worst I’ve seen. Finally have a quarterback that can beat you and he can’t get into his drop.

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On Sunday morning, Inside ND Sports confirmed that Notre Dame 2025 running back target James Simon and 2025 wide receiver target Koby Howard each plan to visit campus for its game against USC on Saturday.

Both are rated as four-star prospects by Rivals. Simon is out of Shreveport (La.) Calvary Baptist Academy while Howard attends Davie (Fa.) Western.

Simon, the No. 27 running back in the 2025 class, told me in August he was a fan of running backs coach Deland McCullough. This will be his first visit to campus since receiving his offer in March. He holds 18 total offers including Notre Dame, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, LSU and Texas.

Howard visited Notre Dame in the summer of 2022 and received an offer from wide receivers coach Chansi Stuckey shortly thereafter. This will be his first visit to Notre Dame since then. Howard reports 30 total offers including Auburn, Florida State, Miami (Fla.), Tennessee and UCF.

We will continue updating the running visitors list thread as more visitors set visit plans for Notre Dame’s remaining home games.

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One more day until another night game for Notre Dame.

Let's get some score predictions in here for ND-Louisville.

@Eric Hansen and I shared our score predictions in this week's Place Your Bets video.

Eric went with Notre Dame 30, Louisville 21.
I went ND 34, UL 24.

What say you?

@Eric Hansen and I discuss our biggest takeaways from Notre Dame's 33-20 loss at Louisville.

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First of all, it's a dumb play by Liufau. Secondly, the refs didn't cost ND the game and Louisville deserved to win.

HOWEVER:

Liufau is clearly being dragged down by a blocker as he grabs that face mask. To call one penalty but not the other is inexcusable. Just another example of the clear incompetence of the ACC officials. This was a critical call as Louisville went on to score a TD to go up 11 as opposed to kicking a FG to go up 7 (or maybe even missing the FG). Completely changes how the rest of the game plays out.

Embarrassing and gutless performance. ND’s coaching staff just got dog walked by Jeff Freaking Brohm. Absolutely pathetic

This is not a bash the coaching staff post. But they did lose that game! Hopefully they will learn from this, but this is not a player loss. I am not going to go into all the plays...everyone saw them. We will learn a whole lot about ND next week!

After having a good night’s sleep and reflecting on the game, I think we all need to take a deep breath and appreciate what we have in ND football right now. Yes, we lost the game, a game we legitimately should have won. But stop and think about that. At any point in the BK era did we really have the better team in these kinds of matchups? Hell no. We didn’t match up athletically and he coached not to lose. The only big game won during the BK era was the OU game on the road. Now, in just the 2nd year of Freeman, we EXPECTED to win this game and we matched up much better athletically. His first recruiting class had a really high blue chip ratio, and Greathouse, Flores, Love are all playing big minutes in key roles. VERY different from BK. Hartman is here, and he points directly to Freeman as a big part of choosing ND over Alabama and others. We don’t win that sweepstakes under Kelly. We have two top 10 QBs in upcoming classes in CJ Carr and Deuce Knight, and we kept CJ after Tommy Rees left for Bama because of the relationship with Freeman and others.

We’re better than we have been in a LONG time offensively, defensively, on the recruiting trail, and the results on the field are showing it too. BK loses this game by 21 easy. Remember all of those big games? Remember the disappointment and the athletic difference, particularly at WR and DB? Wasn’t there last night and OSU has studs on both sides. We were man for man with them and there wasn’t a skill/talent gap. The recruiting classes are ramping up (although I still worry about the DL).

We WILL win games like this moving forward. The coaching staff will clean up their mistakes (and they were epic mistakes) which is something I like about Freeman. The players will learn from this about finishing, just like they learned not to overlook opponents last year after what happened with Marshall and Stanford. I like our chances against USC especially after watching USC-ASU last night after the ND game. We will play more disciplined moving forward, and these guys don’t make the same mistakes twice.

It’s all still to play for this year - we can still make the playoff despite this loss. For the first time in a big game in a LONG time we were the superior team. We lost by and inch at the last second DESPITE making all of those mistakes. Eliminate any one (int drops, too soft coverages at end, 10 men on the last two plays, etc) and we win easily. Kick the damn field goal on the first drive and we win by a TD at least. We are a MUCH better team than we were two years ago and I like the trajectory we’re on. Chin up, deep breaths, and GO IRISH!☘️☘️☘️