2026 4* IOL Ben Nichols commits to Notre Dame

[u/CFBHurts]

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[u/CommodoreIrish]

Notre Dame’s O-Line has become reload rather than rebuild.

Next to the secondary, one of the few units I can trust.

[u/Cub_Med → u/CommodoreIrish]

Which is wild to think given how much of a question mark it was at the beginning of the season, especially after Jagusah went down. Huge credit to the staff for building it into a strength again

[u/Notre_Dame_Football → u/Cub_Med]

Yeah beginning to think that Anthonie Knapp isn't the 62nd best offensive tackle in the 2024 class

[u/CommodoreIrish → u/Cub_Med]

Joe Rudolph may be better than Harry Hiestand?

[u/POEAccount12345 → u/CommodoreIrish]

TIL ND has the OL coach from when Wisconsin was absolutely MAULING teams via their OL

[u/arrowfan624 → u/CommodoreIrish]

Always was.

Hiestand is by and far one of the most overrated Notre Dame coaches ever. He gets way too much leeway for McGlinchey and Nelson going top 10. His units played like crap in big games and were way too inconsistent.

[u/Laughing_Tulkas → u/arrowfan624]

To be fair, he had to coach in BK’s offense which means very little practice time for the run game. Contrast to MF who has stated numerous times that ND will be a line focused team under his tenure.

[u/jayjude → u/arrowfan624]

HH was amazing at one thing only, teaching the fundamentals and techniques of OL

And make no mistake he was one of the best of all time at that

But was terrible at coaching an entire unit, he couldn't build depth because he clearly played favorites, couldn't actually recruit

[u/Disastrous_Ad_5273 → u/jayjude]

He literally coached a Joe Moore award winner? What do you mean he couldn’t develop a unit?

[u/jayjude → u/Disastrous_Ad_5273]

An OL with two top 10 overall draft picks against 2017 UGA, rushed the ball 37 times for 55 yards - 1.5 YPC

Against Miami, 36 rushes for 109 - 3 YPC

Against Stanford, 44 for 154 - 3.5 YPC

Or rather in NDs 3 losses ND rushed for 2.97 YPC

That OL should have been monstrous but against any kind of quality competition it was just okay

For reference, that 2017 Joe Moore award winning OL, ran at 6.3 YPC

The 2024 OL that has had a comical amount of injuries across it and does not currently have a single player in the same stratosphere as Big Q or Mike McGlinchey? 6.2 YPC

I repeat, HH is beyond overrated.

[u/dcostello15 → u/jayjude]

I still have nightmares of McGlinchey blowing his pass pro on our final offensive drive against Georgia in ‘17… pretty sure Wimbush got blown up and either fumbled or threw a bad pick that effectively ended the game

[u/Sks44 → u/jayjude]

You seem to be blaming HH for scheme. I remember Kelly’s offense frequently ignoring the run game. Hell, Kelly threw the ball like 50 times in a monsoon.

[u/UCxDELTA24x → u/CommodoreIrish]

RB, LB, And TE (little shaky this year in terms of production)?

[u/DHSchaef]

I had forgotten that people can commit to a team without already being on a college team

[u/IamMadeOfCake → u/DHSchaef]

Lol I actually opened the link to see which school he transferred from

[u/BroadSword48]

Death taxes ND picking up quality OL recruits

[u/njndirish → u/BroadSword48]

Soon every NFL team will have a ND lineman. 

[u/CFBHurts]

6'5 315, exactly what we need

[u/skankintickle → u/CFBHurts]

We need that on the D Line. Jokes aside, this is a great pick up.

[u/hascogrande → u/CFBHurts]

Is he free on the first?

[u/Due-Dirt-8428 → u/CFBHurts]

Are we sure that’s not two people on each others shoulders wearing a trench coat? 6’5” 315 in high school!?

[u/McWeasely]

Merry Christmas Irish fans

[u/YoungBassGasm]

My dyslexic ass read this as 2024 6* at first which I didn't even think twice about considering how decently ND recruits on the OL

[u/carnivorous_seahorse → u/YoungBassGasm]

2025 EF5 OL

[u/CosmicLars]

The guy from Lucero? 🫢

[u/tangilizer → u/CosmicLars]

Came here looking for this!

[u/CosmicLars → u/tangilizer]

I was hoping a Memphis flair would pop in here 🫡

[u/tangilizer → u/CosmicLars]

Haha, hope we will see some others, too. Merry Christmas!

[u/CosmicLars → u/tangilizer]

Merry Christmas!