BEANO COOK ON CLAUSEN SIGNING WITH ND

Papery poo. Yes. YES.

I predicted all of this way back, BTW.

Beanos also excited to be losing 1 of his 23 chins.

Stupid me managed to leave out the link.

Pete Carroll frozen in carbonite; QB Clausen commits to Notre Dame, Hutt syndicate

Is it really any surprise that a Clausen QB committed to play for a monstrously overweight coach? D-bag Pete Carroll never had a chance with the kid. Hooray for obesity.

Please. Pete Carroll buys his weed in gallon trash bags, not dime bags.

so. giddy. can barely type.

Just so it fits in with the previous ND-related post. . .

MWHAAAAA MWHAAAAAAA MWHAAAAAAAAA

“groomed Tom fuckin’ Brady” plus transformed Brady Quinn from undrafted free agent to Heisman Favorite and projected #1 overall pick in a grand total of one season. We won’t even mention that one year when he was Testaverde’s QB coach and OC though it does kind of stand out on Vinnie’s stat sheet.

Wrong. He(Beano) has no working kidneys. First person ever to go without them. Also, his brain doesn’t function and hasn’t since Paterno was a young assistant at Penn State back in the late fifties.

We can only hope he’s the second coming of Ron Powlus. Of course, Powlus is now helping recruit for ND, so he prolly had a hand in this mess.

Very amusing story there Jonanathantu.

Clausen would have been a nice addition to the Trojan depth chart at QB, but they are so loaded that it won’t be a disaster for USC to lose him. If things go the way it looks like they will then Booty would be an established starter when the kid got to SC, so he would have to compete with Mark Sanchez for the next spot in line. Considering that Sanchez was considered the top player coming out of high school in the nation a year ago and Pete Carroll is saying he is way ahead of where Leinart was at the same stage, perhaps Clausen didn’t want to take on that challenge. Either way the Trojans look set for QB for the next 4 years wihout the kid.

Of course losing out on a hightly touted recruit to a rival is always a bad thing and maybe Weis will indeed turn out to be what the ND fans think/hope/wish he is. I’m still going to wait for him to actually beat a team in the top 25 (at the end of the season) before I’m impressed.

Ron Powlus didn’t win three Heismans but he left ND with just about every school passing record having his name next to it (20 in all). And, whatever your feelings are about ND, were talking about the school that produced Lamonica, Hanratty, Theismann and Montana. If he hadn’t stayed for a fifth year he would also have been a day one draft pick. His biggest mistake was playing that last year as it damaged his draft status severely. The fact that Beano (a guy that doesn’t even particularly like ND) shot off his mouth is not Powlus’ fault nor was the broken collarbone or broken arm that diminished his talent. I’ll never quite get why people are so obsessed with that stupid fucking quote as a) it was not uttered by Ron Powlus or anyone at ND and b) Powlus didn’t exactly suck.

Name the only school to produce three SUPER BOWL WINNING qb’s?

C’mon. Just ask SI if Brodie Croyle has talent. Because his bum knees and fucked up shoulder didn’t stop them from saying he’d be the No. 1 draft bust this year. And Powlus lead his team to 6-5-1 one year and to the Independence Bowl another year. Sorry to quote Jim Romeage, but “scoreboard.”

And if we’re talking about college and not the NFL, then Ryan Leaf is an amazing quarterback.

Guys, I was at ND for the 4 years of hell called the Powlus era. ND fans, stop trying to defend him—yeah, he had those injuries, and it’s not his fault Holtz had him running the option, and sure, his O-line was all injured his first year so he was throwing from his back, and true, we had no receivers besides Derek Mayes…(did I miss any excuses?)…

Bottom line, he sucked. You don’t have Keenan Revue turning out a Chumbawumba remake (“He gets knocked down, he gets up again, He’s the master of the 2 yard throw…He gets knocked down, he gets up again, he’s never gonna make the pros…Pissing the game away, throwing the ball away…Ronny boy, Ronny Boy Ronny booooy!” Funniest Revue Ever) if you don’t suck. Passing records are great—the only record that matters though is W’s and L’s, and he didn’t do too hot there.

I’m glad to see Clausen commit if it actually happens, but putting too much faith in ANY recruit is stupid. Frazer and Jones come in with a bunch of accolades as well, so before we anoint him the second coming of Montana, let’s see if he beats out the other QB’s on our roster.

I’m not gonna lie. As a USC fan, Charlie Weis scares the living bejeebus out of me and that’s not even a fat joke as much as I’d like it to be. As mentioned above this is the third blue chip he’s brought in at quarterback – I wouldn’t be surprised to see Jones (not really Frazer, not too high on him) start over Clausen. That’s not an indictment of Clausen, it’s just an example of the amazing turnaround Weis has pulled in just one year. Good luck to Clausen but I am reeeeally hoping Erin Andrews really does pull a Leia on Charlie.

Weis scares me more than The ‘Ol Ball Coach. Like it or not, he is at one of the premier name programs. The name only can recruit. Growing up in South Louisiana, in all of the Cajun French speaking (and heavily Catholic) towns the papa’s they wanted their boys to grow up and play football for LSU. But the Mama’s wanted their boys to grow up an dplay football for ND. It seems every priest was a recruiter.

He also has them drinking the Kool-Aid. He brought in Rudy, for Christ’s sake, and pulled the Dan Devine green jersey stunt against the Trojans. He put the program in one year where it took Nick Saban at least 3 years to put together a program that was legitimately expected to compete for a national title.

The next Clausen is coming in with loads of pressure on him already. Casey did well at UT. Rick, well he did not so well at LSU or UT. Rick was supposed to be the next coming of something at LSU. Now little Jimmy os going to ND.

I wonder if they convinced the kid that if he led them to more than one title, that they would use him as the face model when they do some touching up of TD Jesus’ face?

With regards to Powlus and his owning all the significatant ND records:
Take a look at Chris Leak, who is on the verge of breaking a lot of records at UF before he graduates (as a result of being a 4-year starter). Now is anyone saying he’s a great QB in the pantheon of great gators?

QEDMF

A few things here:

 - First, this is only a verbal, and Notre Dame has an infamous history of having highly regarded recruits who have verballed to Notre Dame, only to sign with someone else.

 - Second, this kid is a junior in high school, and there is no telling what he’s going to become when he gets to college. Heck, he could end up like Dan Kendra for all we know.

 - Having a great, talented quarterback on your team is not a guarentee for team success. See the Mannings for exhibit “A”.

Let’s all revisit this in four-five years.

1. Jonanathantu – Dude, that was one clever link.

2. Beano Cook has just chimed in and said he needs to mull over the number of Heismans Clownsen will win over a couple of dozen cheeseburgers…..and a Diet Coke. What Star Wars character would best fit Beano? Watto? I do not know. Weis being Jabba the Hutt is genious.

4. Let me add some cold facts:

Both Weis and Carrol have had success with QBs. Weis with Brady and Quinn. Carrol with Palmer and Leinart.

5. Let me add some cold commentary:

Young Clownsen was simply scared of the competition at USC. With Sanchez learning the QB role pretty well this Spring, because of Booty’s back injury let him have more reps, it seems that Clownsen feared the competition. He did not want to be like Booty and sit on his for years.

USC recruits the best players available and lets them fight it out to see who plays on Saturday.

Weis makes deals with his recruits, saying he will not recruit other talented players to compete with them(Mustain of Clintonista-land being Exhibit “A”).

6. Let me add some cold predictions:

So, I think USC may be better off not having a player that is scared to compete. ND will find out in future big games that their big time recruit has no big game.

The beauty of it is, even if Clausen is absolutely terrible/injured and never takes a snap, the other talent he’s most-likely going to bring in with him – Tyler, Benn, Kamara – will serve Frazer, Jones or whoever else is in the Irish backfield very well for years to come. If Clausen is awesome, all the better, but with the quarterbacks Chuck W just brought in, he’s not a necesity.

“Notre Dame has an infamous history of having highly regarded recruits who have verballed to Notre Dame, only to sign with someone else.”

Oh really? Name three.

That is utter BS—ND has no more experience with verbals backing out than any other program. Care to lay some money on Clausen not honoring his verbal to ND? I didn’t think so.

And for ND fans, the USC “we didn’t want him anyway, we’re fine at QB” lines are delicious. One of the more hyped high school QBs in the last 10 years gets nabbed from your own backyard by one of your biggest rivals, and you think it’s no big deal?

And as for whether or not Clausen lives up to the hype, who knows, and frankly, at this point, who cares. This is just another indication that a new day has arrived for Notre Dame—elite offensive recruits can now consider Notre Dame as a top option to get them to the NFL under Charlie Weis. Couldn’t make that argument under the previous couple of chump coaching staffs.

As a Notre Dame fan, this means more to me in the publicity part for jump starting recruiting than getting the “OMG, the next greatest qb ever!!!” crap that has been going on. I think that this sends a message that the top high school players are again looking at ND as a serious place to learn football vs. what it was during the davieham era.

Remember, ND recruited 2 top ten qbs last year who have yet to hit campus. Plus, reportedly, the number 1 qb was banging at the door only to be told that there were no vacancies.

Whether or not Clausen becomes the next great QB at ND or not does not matter much at this point. Our QB depth for the last 3-4 years has been so bad that we have started a walkon QB and a TE moved over to QB. Remember Reggie Bush was “only” a 4star RB.

From all reports we could have gotten Pawlus (sp?) if we had wanted him. And he probably would have ended up in the same league as JC. However, I don’t think that it would have had the same impact on overall recruiting as JC’s commitment will have.

But, that is just me blowing smoke up my ass. Like E-Man said, “Let’s all revisit this in four-five years.” He could be the next Todd Marinovich. USC would like that.. ;)

I wonder what Shillingham, is thinking right now. 9 iron or pitching wedge?

Nate – It’s great that the Keenan Review thought that Powlus sucked but the fact is that he didn’t. During his three years under Holtz the offense scored 29, 33 and 37 points per game. His last two years he had QB ratings in the 140’s with completion percentages near 60%, 12 TD’s each year and near 2000 yards each year. These are monumental numbers for a Lou Holtz offense. He would have been a first day (many were saying first round) pick if he had come out after his third playing year. That’s not re-writing history that’s fact and it’s why so many people were shocked that he hung around for Boob’s first year. He didn’t live up to the unprecedented hype (and, no beta-gator, I never claimed that he was among the pantheon of Irish QB’s) but you’re showing your ignorance when you say that he sucked.

Weis makes deals with his recruits, saying he will not recruit other talented players to compete with them(Mustain of Clintonista-land being Exhibit “A”).

Why do some people find it necessary to lie through their teeth?

The fact is that Weis was very up front in recruiting QBs last year tell all that he would only take the first two to commit. Hence Mustain is the odd man out. How could Weis possibly make a deal when Mustain had already verballed to Arkansas?

And of course I could hear this same moron screaming about Weis “breaking his promise” if he signed Mustain along with the other two.

Congrats to ND, you bastards! Sure the Trojans are presently sort of kind of loaded at qb, but I still would have preferred him to stay in town. But any Trojan fan who says Pete wouldn’t have loved to have him on the team is just delusional. I don’t know if he will be the next great thing or a failure like his brothers, but as of right now he is the best qb out there. to say anything else is just being jealous, petty and showing just how stupid you are. I am now hoping he fails miserably, but that doesn’t change the fact that the Irish landed a big fish this time. I am definately looking forward to the next few years so the Trojans can beat a good Irish team for a change.

Harvey says: if a player doesn’t choose to go to USC, then he sucks. Airtight logic, baby…

I say: “Pete Carroll frozen in carbonite; QB Clausen commits to Notre Dame, Hutt syndicate” proves that all USC fans are Star Wars geeks. Hot girls don’t like geeks, so therefore ND has hotter girls than USC. You can’t argue with that.

Hey, WCBias, you DID beat a good Irish team in 2005. Fair and square, by the way, no complaints here. Nice to see some USC fans respecting the rivalry instead of taking cheap shots at a 17-year-old kid or an overweight coach. See you in LA in November for the NC game.

I just think Clausen will do better at ND. He’s got a normal name, so he just wouldn’t fit in with Booty and the Filthy Sanchez at SC.
…or with Houston Nutt’s quarterbacks: Rusty Cocklord, Mitch Mustain (I can’t figure out what that one means, but it sounds bad), Casey Dick, and Robert Johnson.
Arkansas apparently also has a wideout named Penix, and a safety who may just piss on you if you’re a 13-year-old girl (R. Kelly).

Yall need to get on this story

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/football/ncaa/04/21/west.virginia.spy.ap/index.html

‘Named remaining functioning kidney “Jimmy.”’

I just spit up coffee all over my keyboard laughing at this. Freaking hilarious.

Good luck to Jimmy Clausen at Notre Dame!

“he could end up like Dan Kendra for all we know”

or Brock Berlin, or Ronald Curry, or C.J. Leak…..

Is anyone actually serious when they mention spewing coffee, or some other beverage, all over their keyboard?! I mean, come on! Are you just trying to lick the bloggers’ balls or what?

How many Clausens have there been at quarterback? Why will this one be any better than the others before him?

According to some stories, Clausen’s been better than his brothers since 7th grade. It’s those sorts of anecdotes, by the way, that make me shudder because if there’s that much horse hockey flying around about Clausen at that age, who knows what’s real?

One other thing that scares me as an ND fan: He opened his announcement today by thanking his saviour the Lord Jesus Christ. I’m a pretty religious dude, but there’s something about that crap that really sticks in my craw.

How do I reconcile all this with the fact that I’ve been giddy all day thanks to this kid’s announcement? I really can’t. I guess that’s college football in a nutshell, huh?

Lets be real SC fans

ND just took the best recruit out of your backyard(best QB since Elway) and got him to play for the big rival. This accomplishment from a team with one of the best/most intimidating coaches in NCAA Football and a program on the rise, all while your program is starting to fall off (ask for details if necessary). And you’re saying you aren’t the least bit scared? Please.

Rick—

Who cares about the offensive stats when at the end of the game it’s an “L”? Jarious Jackson had the single-season passing record in the season we went 5-7. was he a great ND QB? no. Gimme 15 Kevin McDougals for every Powlus. Sitting in that stadium watching us lose to Air Force in Overtime, I certainly wasn’t thinking how great Ronnyboy was.

H. Wiseman, I guess being truthful with your recruits doesn’t mean anything in your book. I guess you believe that Tress-calades and ca$h mean more. Let all of the NDhaters and negative spinmeisters keep at it, because whether you like it or not, ND is back. Although it will take some time to catch ’Bama in NCs as I think they just claimed another one today and that makes a dozen already this year…and speaking of counting, HW, I guess you have a something against the number 3???

OK PLACT, I’ll bite. Let’s hear how the USC program is falling off. I know the 34-1 record in the last 35 games is pretty dismal.

I’m amused at how this recruit is suddenly going to allow Notre Dame to bring in top level talent. So they’ve never been able to attract player’s before?

Though since this kid has been proclaimed the next great ND quarterback, I’m wondering who was the last one?

Brady Q. could become one this year if he lives up to the hype, but so far his resume is the same as his coach’s: beaten a couple of powerhouses in down years and some other mediocre teams, looked good against SC (but even with Rudy, the green jersey’s, Joe Montana and the long grass still lost the game) looked bad against Stanford and lost by 14 points to tOSU in the bowl game.

I’m wondering how the Irish fans who seem to have swallowed the green Weis Kool Aid, will react if the team loses 2 or 3 regular season games this year (especially if one of them is to SC) and Brady does not win the Heisman. Willingham went from savior to “out the door” pretty quick.

I don’t if anybody mentioned this in the USC-ND debate, but Clausen ain’t 16. I think he’s 19. The Clausens held each up of their sons back a couple years to give them to give them an advantage over the competition with regard to physical ability and maturation.

Holy fuck I’m retarded.

Yeah Nate, when you’re accusing a QB of ‘sucking’ it’s ridiculous to look at offensive statistics. But how about we do it for the ‘96 AFA game anyway. Powlus threw for 268 yards which was I believe his highest output of the year. No INT’s and no TD’s but you may remember the catch by Nelson in the endzone that was ruled a trap but clearly was a catch on the TV replays. On the other hand the team rushed for 67 yards on 37 carries. Here’s a newsflash for you: 1.8 yards a carry is not the prescription for a win in a Lou Holtz offense. Neither is giving Beau Morgan 183 yards on 23 carries or yielding 304 total rushing yards. Yeah, Powlus was the problem that day.

Blaming Powlus for the ’96 AFA loss has always been the most ridiculous of all anti-Powlus arguments. Again, that team averaged 37 points per game in ’96. Powlus was not the problem.

Phil-

Willingham and Weis are in two completely different worlds. Willingham won that first year based on a great defense that was handed to him and a helluva lot of luck. Weis won his first year on great game planning, a phenomenal offense, and despite having nearly nothing of use on the defensive side of the ball. Weis’s strategy seems to hold up much better in the long run (just ask Ty).

As far as USC falling off, the beginning was showcased this past year, think of it as a preview. You take away an historic talent like Reggie Bush and the team loses at least 3 games (ND, Fresno St, Obviously Texas). No matter who you want to plug in there, he wont be the talent Bush is, and you’ll see the team suffer from that. Now add in that, usually, losing a coordinator like Chow doesn’t show until his showcase players are gone. Lienart, White, Bush, Byrd… all gone. While the kids running the show are good, they aren’t Chow. Again, a step back.

Now to the present/future. The runningback debacle is another sign that things are not good. SC somehow magically forgets to recruit a back while Bush and White are tearing things up. They leave, who is there now? A bunch of freshman and a linebacker. Who knows what you’ll get from that position. The line needs a good amount of replacing with 3 new starters from last year. The defense, which wasn’t particularly spectacular last year (especially the secondary), brings on 7 new players. 15 new starters in total, 7-7-1 spread. There’s a lot of talent, but a lot of question marks as well. I wouldn’t be shocked by a 3 loss season for the Trojans next year (Possibly one of the first 2 games, an Oregon/Cal/UCLA game, and ND). 34-1 is a great record, there’s nothing I can do but respect that as a College Football Fan in general, but I think things are starting to turn. Am I saying that USC will fall off the face of the map? Obviously no, but I don’t think we’ll see anywhere near the domination we have the past couple years. USC will probably fall into the top tier GROUP, but that group will now consist of other teams as opposed to SC making up a group of one.

Phil – You’re whistling past a graveyard. If you can’t see the difference between what Willingham did his first year and what Weis did his first year or the differences in the resumes of the two men then no argument will make you see it. You should really enjoy the “beaten a couple of powerhouses in down years” and “but even with Rudy, the green jersey’s, Joe Montana and the long grass still lost the game” stuff while you can.

One basic rule of college football is that going into a rivalry game anything can happen and underdogs frequently rise up and knock off rivals. The ND-SC game was the game of the year (along with tOSU/Texas) and the domers pulled out all the stops. Putting too much emphasis on that one game might not be too wise. And other than that game I don’t see that much Weis’s team has done on the field. Weis has done a great job of rallying the ND faithful though, there is no doubt about that. I’m just saying he might face a wikkid backlash if he does not live up to current expectations.

Actually as far as resume’s I’d take Willingham’s going into the ND job over Weis. Ty took Stanford to the Rose Bowl and Weis had never been a head coach. I know now the domers like to attribute everything good that ever happend to the Patriots directly to him, but he was still an assistant. It is not like he was ND’s first choice for head coach.

The 9-3 scenario for USC is fair, but I could also see them going undefeated again. Last year’s linebackers and secondary faced a really bad run of injuries and now there is great depth and experience at those positions (losing Bing will hurt though). The DL looks solid, as does the OL (lots of depth and experience there too. The recievers may be the best in the country. QB looks good so the big question is RB. If Washington comes back that will look good too.

I’d put ND in the same 9-3 to 12-0 range as well, BTW.

First it was ESPN.

Then it because USCPN.

Now, it will become USCPND.

I can’t wait for the fake signing day press-conferences.

“you DID beat a good Irish team in 2005. Fair and square, by the way, no complaints here.”

Maybe not. Yahoo suggests some shennanigans.

((Maybe that’ll really get this USC/ND fighting going))

Man this ND stuff is worse than the Texas hype during the Chris Simms era. For God’s sake shouldnt Weis have to win a single game over a Top 25 team before you domers start fellating him? I mean good god, its not like he’s Spurrier, Carroll, or hell even Fulmer (though he is close to him in girth). No offense but Vany almost beat Florida in the Swamp does that mean the Commodores a re a team on the rise?

this just in: notre dame can be good without usc being bad. and vice versa. it’s not a zero sum game.

for the first time since 2002 there are question marks about usc’s players- they could go 10-3 or 13-0. this is news only because they were formerly invincible. who knew leinart would be as good as palmer, for longer? predictions of doom with the newly re-loaded trojans are foolish, because its likely that the players coming up are just as good as the ones leaving- if anything they’ve been more highly touted.

and its also obvious that anyone making the willingham-weis comparisons, or knocking the ability of weis and his staff hasn’t seen that much of notre dame. which is fine, this is a primarily sec blog, and why should they care about nd? but those who have seen more than a couple games in the last few years and have observed the program closely can see a marked change. healthy skepticism on the part of others is fine, and in fact encouraged. charlie hardly has a history of failing to meet expectations.

I’ll concede that Weis hasn’t beaten a top flight team yet and that the “genius head coach” tag is a bit premature. That said, I’d wager that the vast majority of ND fans wouldn’t dream of trading coaches with any of y’all. Anyone who watched what Ty did with essentially the same team the year before (not to mention the yearly quota of 2 blowout losses during his tenure) has got to be an idiot not to understand why we’re so excited.

Interesting.

So Reggie Bush’s family may have been living in a house provided by an agent? Is this Fulmer Cup eligible?

ND Fans:

I have had it with you cottonpickers!

A bunch of posts on this thread by Weis acolytes and not one of them funny or even clever. Even UGA fans are funny (now and then).

Just a bunch of gloaters over a kid that turned down both USC’s Carrol and USC’s Spurrier – two proven winners of championships as “the Man” and not as the “Caddy”. (For those of you domers low on brain power, South Carolina is locally known as the ‘original USC’.)

The Clownsens sending their third brat out of Calif is par for the course. I think the other two went to Cheeto-hand-stained Fullmer land. Young Clownsen had no intention of staying in Calif and actually trying to compete for a job. Like many jackballs that I know of, he wants everything handed to him in a silver platter and if Rodney Dangerfield Weis had to do it, he had to do it…

Regarding the Clownsen signing, I have not seen such giddy celebrating by Arrogant people since Trump and Melania named THEIR new boy – “BARRON”.

All you need to know about what the Clausen signing means is this; a California High School QB announces his intention to go to ND and it’s the 2d story of the program on Sunday Morning’s New England Sports Network(NESN)sports program, right after the story about the Red Sox losing to the Blue Jays. ND’s front page news again all over the country and whether or not Clausen pans out, ND will be, for the foreseeable future, in on every major recruit.

F*** you, John Saunders.

From an inside source…
Clausen committed to ND over USC because the house they were building for him was not going to be as big as Bush’s.

Well Played, Lance

Lance Boil:

FINALLY! Something funny from Domerland.

Just hope your Napoleon-Dynamite-type-domers can keep the material going….

From an inside source…
Clausen committed to ND over USC because the house they were building for him was not going to be as big as Bush’s.

Comparing the housing markets in South Bend with SoCal, you could probably buy up 1/4 of South Bend for the price of the free house used by the Bush family.

Clausen’s over-rated anyway. You can have him.

The Gamecocks have Spurrier and you don’t.

Now hold on Charleston:

On your side of the ledger we have Todd Ellis and and Steve Tanneyhill.

On the other side we have Montana, Theisman and Brady.

OK, now I see why you are saying he’s overrated. Thanks for clearing that up!

I’d take Spurrier over Weis seven days of the week….

I’d take Spurrier over Weis seven days of the week….

Not at Old Contry Buffet!

wait, now let me get this straight qdogbro, notre dame is now retroactively claiming tom brady as an alumni quarterback? did you write an article for The Onion a few months back?

Nick, he was referring to Brady Quinn, not Tom Brady. But nice attempt at witty reparte. Time to fire your writers.

Its fun to hear someone other than uga fans say “we’re back!” after a single season… we leashed ‘em 14 of the past 16 years and ’04’s victory still has ‘em commenting on “the broken curse” and expecting better days to come. And I’d take the Ole Ball Coach any day over anyone out there… if anyone can make a pickle out of a sow’s ear its SOS.

(For those of you domers low on brain power, South Carolina is locally known as the ‘original USC’.)

Yeah, Harvey, only rednecks from Columbia think they are the “real” USC.

Brady Quinn? Oh, here I thought he was trying to group together qb’s that actually have accomplishments.

SKLM -

Finally. I was wondering when you would chime in. I figured you must have been mad as hell to have not taken any gratuitous “fat Charles” shots.

So, does anyone else think Mark May is going to predict an 0-6 start for us?

So I just looked it up online and Clausen’s 20 and still in High School, WTF? Is he stupid, or did his oparents hold him back so he’d have an edge (which if you think about it is even more on an issue)?

Clausen isn’t 20. He’s 18. He’ll be 19 when he enrolls at ND.