When I started here at Fighting Irish Wire back in the fall of 2019 I used to do a weekly
“Nick’s Notre Dame Mailbag” feature. Yeah, I spent all night thinking of the name
but I was thinking back to it for two main reasons over the last couple of days.
1. We’re going to bring the mailbag premise back this off-season via comments to posts or responses to social media questions.
2. More significantly – one of my old mailbags played right into the news on the college football field this weekend.
I can’t tell you how much I think Nebraska nailed their head coach selection and I don’t think Wisconsin is very far behind in theirs,
either. However, just over three years after I originally wrote that post
I can’t help but be ecstatic that things ended up the way they did for Notre Dame.
If the program were needing rebuilt then these two would have been great selections.
Notre Dame is well-established in recent memory however and needed someone to get them over the hump.
I’m not sure Rhule or Fickell’s recruiting abilities would get them there.
Notre Dame is well-established in recent memory however and needed someone to get them over the hump.
Trust me, I think the Irish would have been more of the same
as they were under Kelly (which was really good relatively speaking), but the closing of the talent gap would still need significant addressing.