Linebacker was not a position of great need for Notre Dame in the Class of 2012 and the Irish never tried to hide it.
From the beginning – with Missouri’s Mike Scherer – to the end – with Florida’s Schyler Miles – the Irish were telling several linebacker prospects that they saw them as offensive players. Notre Dame was brutally honest with high school coaches with multiple BCS prospects that it wasn’t searching hard for linebackers in the 2012 cycle.
So it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Notre Dame ended up inking just one linebacker prospect, Romeo Okwara of Charlotte, N.C.
To be fair, the Irish did recruit some of the nation’s top prospects and they would have welcomed them had they wanted to come, they were just going to be very picking and focus their attention in areas with greater needs.
