2022 In-State OLB Joshua Burnham Commits to Notre Dame
Joshua Burnham, Linebacker from Traverse City, and a top target for Michigan's 2022 recruiting class, has officially committed to Notre Dame.
Burnham is a 4-star prospect ranked #115 nationally and 2nd in the state of Michigan according to 247's composite.
Good luck to the kid and to hell with Notre Dame.
BOOM ‼️ 4 ⭐️ OLB Joshua Burnham officially commits to Notre Dame ☘️
— 247Sports (@247Sports) March 17, 2021
(via @CBSSportsHQ)
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Man, losing recruits to ND hurts, but I get it - they have a pretty painless path to the CFP in years that they don't have to play Clemson, let alone years like this past year where they did beat them (comments regarding QB situation withheld)
Random thing I learned while perusing Twitter today: Mike McCray Jr. will be leaving Michigan as a grad assistant to join Notre Dame's football program.
While I'm happy for him as he embarks on his coaching career, I can't help but think "dammit!"
/I didn't feel like starting a separate thread.
Mike McCray Jr, former M linebacker.
This one isn't over.
Better be able to point to a good product on the football field in 2021 if they want to get in the ear of good recruits.
Get it. On St. Patrick's day.
Unless you're Irish or Catholic there is barely a reason to choose or root for that school over Michigan. South Bend is nowhere near the town AA is. Students are mainly confined to campus and a few blocks near school due to the locals somehow completely disdaining the Damer's, also downtown South Bend is very depressing. Wait, I remember, the disdain comes from most of the Damer's being smug dicks.
I coached basketball at an inner-city youth camp one summer at Notre Dame with a number of ND students. I can tell you that the coeds take Catholicism … very seriously.
He’ll come crawling back.
it's also the kid's birthday today...
For my grandparents generation cheering for ND had very real cultural-religious meaning something that I think gets lost today because of the process of assimilating ethnics into the blob of whiteness that we see today.
March 17th, 2021 at 10:02 PM ^
"Ethnics"?
Were they white nationalists?
My great grandma was at first angry when my grandpa told her he was going to marry a Catholic woman.
To hell with Notre Dame
I just don't get this one, he says he grew up a Michigan Fan yet he commits to one of our "rivals", quotes because we hardly play them anymore.
Business decision; he liked BJM a lot and Freeman was a constant at ND for him when BJM left, making it easier for him to continue to build that relationship than start from scratch with UM and their coaches whenever the dust settled. I don't think this is over, but I am a nobody whose opinion counts for nothing.
I believe it was you that I was discussing chill music with recently? Did you check out any of the artists I mentioned?
The 247 team has touted how our staff has been telling kids like Burnham they can play anywhere, but I do think a lack of clarity surrounding his position hurt us here, beyond the lack of relationships with the new coaching staff.
We will see if Michigan continues to struggle on the west side of the state after losing VanSumeran and now Burnham. Seems like the in-state focus (rightfully so) has been on SE Michigan.
Hoping we have a better shot with Sebastian Cheeks now. Cheeks was thought to be an ND lean or even silent, but ND is in pretty good position for several LBs so Cheeks may be the odd man out.
Just an FYI VanSumeran is from Bay City which is on Lake Huron or the East side of Michigan.
Good luck to him. Never seemed like UM was really in it once BJM left. Still a year away, though, so who knows.
March 17th, 2021 at 10:48 PM ^
What a surprise!