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Find Out the Latest From Notre Dame Recruiting News

If you are a fan of the Fighting Irish, you will no doubt be very interested in reading Notre Dame recruiting news to find out wceat new players have been added to the rosters for the next few seasons. The university does not just recruit for one year in advance, since they now have prospects signed as far in advance as 2010.

The projected starters for the offensive line for the 2008 season are:

- Mike Turkovich – Left Tackle

- Eric Olsen ?Left Guard

- Dan Wenger ?Center

- Chris Stewart ?Right Guard

- Sam Young ?Right Tackle

The backup players are:

- Paul Duncan

- Thomas Bemenderfer

- Trevor Robinson

- Taylor Derer

- Matt Romaine

Notre Dame has been very active in recruiting to try to make advances in wins after their disastrous showing in the 2007-2008 season. The recruiting news will also give you information about some of the tactics the coaches have planned for this season. Coach Weiss stated that practices will certainly become more physical in order to prepare the younger players for gameplay. Starting new players has been one of the complaints against Notre Dame and many say that this is the reason for Notre Dame losses last year.

Sam Young is entering this season with two years of experience as a starter. He has also gained 30 pounds since his first year. Along with Chris Stewart, they should make a formidable pair. Even though there was a suspicion that Chris was going to leave the program last year, but reports in recruiting news say that for this season he is in the best shape of his football career. Dan Wenger is expected to retain the center position. Both Olsen and Turkovich are returning players and both had impressive seasons last year.

The Fighting Irish have their roster complete for the 2008 football season. In recruiting, they did not just look at the performance of the players. They look for players who work well both on and off the field. The prospects have high grade point averages, which makes them good all-around students. The fact that they can concentrate on their studies to maintain excellent grades and be in attendance for all the practices and games shows they are responsible individuals committed to attaining goals they have set for themselves.

Not only will you learn about new and returning players, as well as their ratings and statistics by reading the recruiting news of Notre Dame, but you will also find out the team schedule. In this way you can plan your schedule so that you can attend as many games as possible.

Keep up with the latest news by reading the forums and then when you visit the forums you can post your opinion on the events that are taking place. This is one of the ways you can get involved in football discussions with fans from all over the country. When you read many of the recruiting news stories, there is often a place at the end where you can add your own comments.

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Notre Dame And Usc Rival Has Longstanding History

It is the college football rival that’s between University of Notre Dame and University of Southern California and it is one of the most highly publicized, sensational rivals in the history of football. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the USC Trojans have had a longstanding history of rival games since 1926. The trophy is the Jeweled Shillelagh and the current champions are USC but that doesn’t mean there won’t be any more rivals between the two. These two teams are considered some of the most elite when it comes to football. Both the Fighting Irish and the Trojans have won 11 national championships and 7 Heisman Trophies so both teams are forces to be reckoned with.

Even back at the start of this rivalry it was regarded as one of the most important ones in college football. Sometimes referred to as the greatest intersectional rivalry because the winner has often continued on to play for the national title for college football.

Between the Fighting Irish and the Trojans, the schools have garnered 22 national titles, 14 Heisman Trophy winners, and a total of 21 for All Americans, NFL Hall of Famers and College Football Hall of Famers. This rivalry has gained acclaim also as half of the ten most-watch college football games in the history of those on television. So how did this rivalry get started back in 1926? College football historian Murray Sperber claims that the rivalry was begun for political and financial reasons. The more popular story, however, is that USC was on the hunt for a national rival and that discussions between Notre Dame Head Coach Knute Rockne and USC Athletic Director Gywnn Wilson and their wives is how the rivalry came to be.

Games have been played in Los Angeles, Chicago and South Bend. Notre Dame has been held rivalries against Michigan, Michigan State, Navy and Purdue in addition to USC. Heismann Trophy winners include Angelo Bertelli, Johnny Lujack, Leon Hart, Johnny Lattner, Paul Hornung, John Huarte and Tim Brown. The eleven years that Notre Dame has won the National Championship are 1924, 1929, 1930, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1966, 1973, 1977 and 1988.

USC rivalries in addition to Notre Dame are UCLA. Retired numbers for the team are 20, 32, 12, 33, 3, 11 and 5. Heismann Trophy winners include Mike Garrett, O.J. Simpson, Charles White, Marcus Allen, Carson Palmer, Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush. USC hold National Championships for 1928, 1931, 1932, 1939, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1974, 1978, 2003 and 2004.

The Notre Dame USC rivalry goes beyond the football field. In the movie, The Godfather Part II, Hyman Roth is watching the 158 Notre Dame USC game. And although the team has never played on Christmas Day, in the movie Die Hard, a security guard is watching a game between the two rivals. Perhaps a part of what has kept this rivalry so fascinating for fans on both sides is that there have been five games where there was a tie (1936, 1948, 1968, 1969 and 1994).

Notre Dame holds the lead presently with 42 wins over USC, who has 34 to their credit. USC took the Jeweled Shillelagh home after the 2009 match up but Notre Dame leads the series 42-34-5 but USC has triumphed since 2002. Notre Dame does hold a longer winning streak, however with 11 in a row from 1983 to 1993. Although this rivalry seems almost ancient, there actually have been only 81 games played between these two fantastic teams. The statistics are relatively close too, giving ample credence to how this rivalry has survived through the years.

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