Kiel, from Columbus, Ind., initially committed to Indiana, afresh to LSU and afflicted his apperception afresh and absitively to go to Notre Dame. He is already enrolled in classes and will attempt with Tommy Rees, Andrew Hendrix and Everett Golson to run drillmaster Brian Kelly's advance offense.
The Irish aswell absent a top recruit if Deontay Greenberry, a brilliant receiver from California, afflicted his apperception and absitively to assurance with Houston.
"I anticipate we corrective the account acutely about what we were about and we fabricated abiding that this is what you're traveling to get at Notre Dame," Kelly said of Greenberry's last-minute defection. "For me it's harder to be aghast about something you've never had or you've never coached. I'm added aflame about the guys that active because they are the appropriate affectionate of guys."
Kiel's change of affection -- not already but alert -- landed him area he acquainted best as a apprentice and a player, Kelly said.
"He was actual adequate aural the branch of our offense, in getting assured that he could appear in and run our offense," Kelly said. "I backpack the expectations that he fabricated a accommodation to appear to Notre Dame because he feels adequate in the arrangement that we run here."
Kelly said he expects all the admission freshmen to be accessible to go because he's not recruiting players to yield a redshirt season. That will authority abnormally accurate for aboriginal enrollees like Kiel, arresting lineman Sheldon Day from Indianapolis and arresting aback Tee Shepard of Fresno, Calif.. Carlisle is aswell already demography classes.
"We acutely acquaint our freshmen, `You bigger be accessible to compete,"' Kelly said. "So I don't anticipate we set the bar any altered for Gunner Kiel than we do for any of our added freshmen as it relates to advancing in and competing, or I don't wish you here."
The awful admired Kiel, whose uncle, Blair, started 29 amateur for the Irish from 1980-83, is the covering bolt of this class. One of Notre Dame's problems during a additional beeline 8-5 division endure year was the amount of turnovers at quarterback.
Kiel anesthetized for 2,517 yards and 27 TDS and ran for about 500 added with 11 TDs in arch Columbus East High to a a12-2 almanac and the accompaniment semifinals.
The Irish lose Michael Floyd, the arch receiver in academy history, and now they will not accept the abeyant of Greenberry. But they did assurance advanced receivers Chris Brown of Hanahan, S.C., and Justin Ferguson of Pembroke Pines, Fla.
The accessory will lose assurance Harrison Smith and cornerbacks Gary Gray and Robert Blanton, so the Irish active 5 arresting backs headed by the highly-regarded Shepard. Aswell active were Nick Baratti of Tomball, Texas, C.J. Prosise of Petersburg, Va., Elijah Shumate of East Orange, N.J., and John Turner of Indianapolis.
Besides Day, the Irish aswell got 6-6, 298-pound Jarron Jones from Rochester N.Y. on the arresting foreground and linebacker Romeo Okwara from Charlotte., N.C. Offensive linemen Mark Harrell, aswell from Charlotte, and Ronnie Stanley of Las Vegas were aswell signed.
The Irish will accept active aback Cierre Wood aback next division forth with Theo Riddick and green George Atkinson III. Still, they active Will Mahone of Austintown, Ohio, and KeiVarae Russell of Everett, Wash.
Carlisle will accept to sit out a season. As a apprentice at USC, he battled abate and knee injuries and agitated 19 times for 118 yards.
Notre Dame aswell acclimated a scholarship for a appropriate teams amateur -- continued snapper Scott Daly of Downers Grove, Ill.
Kelly said recruiting has afflicted abundantly because of amusing media, and that changes of affection are allotment of the accord for teenagers.
"Kids are traveling to change their minds. There are so abounding altered outlets, amusing media is one of them. Just that affectionate of breeze of advice makes it a little added difficult in the recruiting process, but you accept to be able for that," Kelly said. "You can't go in, `Well, he committed on the aboriginal day, I don't accept to anguish about it.' You accept to abide the recruiting. So I'm not actuality to say `expect the unexpected' but acutely if you're ambidextrous with this recruiting process, you accept to abide to recruit your kids all the way to the signing day. And we do."
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