America's Top Recruit -- Commits to Irish!

This young man's name is no stranger to Notre Dame fans - he's Michael Floyd.  Today, the Irish wide receiver announced that he would be RETURNING to Notre Dame for his senior season!!!  Floyd, already the career TD reception leader in ND history -- made the decision to bypass the NFL to stay in school.  Isn't this GREAT NEWS!  Here's a link to statements made today by Coach Kelly and Michael Floyd about his decision to return to the Irish football team - and two additional ESPN stories about Floyd choosing ND over the NFL -- along with a video tribute to Michael, showing every TD catch in his career:

LINK:  KELLY AND FLOYD -- STATEMENTS

LINK:  ESPN STORY ON FLOYD STAYING AT NOTRE DAME

LINK:  COLLEGE FOOTBALL NATION BLOG -- STORY ON FLOYD

LINK:  VIDEO TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL FLOYD

First Football Polls for 2011 -- Irish Ranked!

Well, it didn't take long for a number of the "experts" to start making their predictions for the pre-season Top-Twenty college football teams -- and the IRISH are getting some respect!  Here are links to the first polls out for 2011:




LINK:  CHICAGO TRIBUNE POLL

LINK:  NATIONALCHAMPS.NET POLL

LINK:  BLEACHER REPORT POLL

LINK:  ORLANDO SENTINEL POLL 

LINK:  SB NATION POLL

Notre Dame Finishes 19th in Sagarin Rankings!

USA Today just released Jeff Sagarin's (photo) last ranking of the 2010 college football season and our Fighting Irish finished 19th!  Here's a link to his computer ranking system for college football -- don't ask me how to explain what he does -- and a link to story that USA Today ran about this guy named "Sagarin."

LINK:  SAGARIN'S FINAL RANKINGS 

LINK:  WHO IS THIS GUY NAMED SAGARIN?