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Notre Dame Can Still Recruit

The 2007 season may have been the worst season in the history of Notre Dame football, but if there's a silver lining in the dark clouds that hovered over South Bend all season, it's that sometimes having a bad year helps your recruiting class.

Top high school players from around the country see your team as a location where they'll have a better chance of getting themselves some playing time, and also as a chance to rebuild a program. This has been the case for Notre Dame so far this offseason, as an already strong incoming class of freshman got stronger this afternoon.

Deion Walker, a wide receiver out of Christchurch (I hear it's a Buddhist community), Virginia has chosen to attend Notre Dame next season.
Prized high school recruit Deion Walker has committed to playing his college football with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, adding to a remarkable class of freshman expected to arrive on the South BendIn campus in the fall and turn around the struggling program.

Walker had narrowed his choices of schools down to Penn State, NC State, Texas Tech, USC and Notre Dame but in the end went with the long standing tradition of the Irish despite an awful 2007 campaign. In making his decision Walker noted, "They have a great tradition of winning, that's all that matters. I did not think too much about their disappointing season. We will turn it around."
Walker is ranked as the 35th best player in the country, according to Rivals.com, and is ranked as the 5th best wide receiver in the country. At 6'4 he'll provide Jimmy Clausen with a big target, and he has 4.4 speed which is always nice.

He joins an incoming class at Notre Dame that already features eight other recruits ranked in the top 100 at Rivals.com. So, and I'm crossing my fingers here, maybe Notre Dame will get back to respectability next season.

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