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With National Signing Day just over a week away, Notre Dame appears to be limping down the final stretch.
With National Signing Day just over a week away, Notre Dame appears to be limping down the final stretch.

Sunday evening, the fragile vessel that is the Notre Dame football program sprung a few more leaks, with the defections of highly-regarded Indiana defensive end Blake Leuders and talented running back Giovanni Bernard.

Losing Leuders stings because he plays along the defensive line and appears destined for defensive end, a position at which the Irish are woefully depleted. Leuders was snatched away by the same gentlemen who recruited him to play for Notre Dame: Brian Polian and Randy Hart, both of whom are now employed by Stanford, which is where Leuders will now enroll.

Sunday evening, the fragile vessel that is the

Losing

Well, at least he didn't choose Southern Cal...
Well, at least he didn't choose Southern Cal...

As yet another long and eventful recruiting season slowly meanders toward National Signing Day on February 3rd, the Fighting Irish received some bad news on Thursday evening: Notre Dame legacy and decorated high school athlete Anthony Barr decided to cast his lot with his hometown UCLA Bruins. Barr told Rivals.com that, "it was the hardest decision of my life...I will always be a Notre Dame fan."

Barr is a classy young man and he will perform well at UCLA, which is an excellent school.