Football: Notre Dame on Te'o trail, too
Have BYU and Notre Dame ever gone head-to-head for a football recruit before?
It appears the Irish have upped their pursuit of Manti Te’o, the linebacker from Hawaii who most observers agree has BYU, USC and UCLA in his top three.
Here’s an interesting item we found in the South Bend Tribune, written by Eric Hansen, regarding how Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis spend part of his bye weekend.
Forget the honey-do projects, the smorgasbord of college football on TV to glut from, even quality time with the spouse.
Charlie Weis spent his bye weekend going bye-bye — to Hawaii, no less.
Well, sort of. For all of about six hours. Offset by about 18 hours of time spent in an airplane.
He did not pack a suitcase.
The Notre Dame head football coach can write it off as a pleasure trip if linebacker [Manti] Te'o — perhaps the best linebacker in the country with or without an apostrophe — ends up verbally committing to Notre Dame.
The 6-foot-2, 225-pounder with 4.55 40 speed plays for the Punahou School in Honolulu, and Weis arrived just in time Friday to catch the Buffnblu's matchup with the Iolani School. All NCAA rules allowed the Irish coach to do on the trip basically is see and be seen.
"That's why he's got a job, because he can recruit and does it to this extreme," national recruiting editor for scout.com Allen Wallace said of Weis. "Te'o would be a perfect fit for the Irish defense. Actually, he'd be a perfect fit for any defense. He's a search-and-destroy type of guy. He's strong, he's athletic and he has a bad attitude."
Te'o has only made one college visit so far, to UCLA — where Punahou alum Norm Chow is the offensive coordinator. He said he also plans to visit Stanford, BYU, Notre Dame and USC.
-- Jay Drew
It appears the Irish have upped their pursuit of Manti Te’o, the linebacker from Hawaii who most observers agree has BYU, USC and UCLA in his top three.
Here’s an interesting item we found in the South Bend Tribune, written by Eric Hansen, regarding how Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis spend part of his bye weekend.
Forget the honey-do projects, the smorgasbord of college football on TV to glut from, even quality time with the spouse.
Charlie Weis spent his bye weekend going bye-bye — to Hawaii, no less.
Well, sort of. For all of about six hours. Offset by about 18 hours of time spent in an airplane.
He did not pack a suitcase.
The Notre Dame head football coach can write it off as a pleasure trip if linebacker [Manti] Te'o — perhaps the best linebacker in the country with or without an apostrophe — ends up verbally committing to Notre Dame.
The 6-foot-2, 225-pounder with 4.55 40 speed plays for the Punahou School in Honolulu, and Weis arrived just in time Friday to catch the Buffnblu's matchup with the Iolani School. All NCAA rules allowed the Irish coach to do on the trip basically is see and be seen.
"That's why he's got a job, because he can recruit and does it to this extreme," national recruiting editor for scout.com Allen Wallace said of Weis. "Te'o would be a perfect fit for the Irish defense. Actually, he'd be a perfect fit for any defense. He's a search-and-destroy type of guy. He's strong, he's athletic and he has a bad attitude."
Te'o has only made one college visit so far, to UCLA — where Punahou alum Norm Chow is the offensive coordinator. He said he also plans to visit Stanford, BYU, Notre Dame and USC.
-- Jay Drew
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