Notre Dame has been known as Tight End U to anyone paying attention in recent years, something we tracked back to the late-eighties earlier this week. Notre Dame fans are aware of it but the nation was reminded today that it’s not just Tight End U, but also Offensive Line U as Sports Illustrated just said as much.
It really doesn’t take much thinking to figure it out. You know the names – Nick and Zack Martin, Ronnie Stanley and Quenton Nelson. These guys aren’t just Notre Dame guys made the NFL, these are the best of the best and All-Pro players.
Sports Illustrated “crunched the numbers” and as much as I appreciate the work and effort to do so, can’t you just kind of look and figure that out? All you really had to do was watch with your eyes open.
The league knows where to look. #OLU pic.twitter.com/h9SMtgpmq2
— Tommy Rees (@T_Rees11) March 29, 2020
Sports Illustrated used a point system to put this all together that was based off of the number of draft picks each school had and the level of play those players exhibited in the NFL. Notre Dame didn’t have the most but the abilities of those there were far-exceeded any other school.
Now let’s just hope this year’s group takes a step in the run game to perform near that level in 2020.