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I was about to post this in the Mike Floyd thread but thought it would fit in better here.
I find it interesting that presumably Mike Floyd was lured to ND by promises of early playing time (as others have said), however, as Jimmy Clausen has proven, if you throw a bunch of freshman to the fire with early playing time without a solid team around them they will be eaten alive.
It just seems like this strategy of throwing freshman in early will only compound ND's ineptitude or at the very best allow ND to have a decent team once every three or four years.
Out of all the bad things you can say about Weis and Notre Dame, I think by far their biggest problem is that Weis has absolutely no idea how to develop players. He is used to throwing any old NFL player into his system and them being able to pick it up. He has absolutely no clue how to turn a high school player into a productive college player. And playing talented freshman immediately won't help things very much in my opinion.
The Notre Dame pitch:
"Are you a talented high school football player? Come to Notre Dame and be thrown in the fire right away, good luck surviving, if you make it through to your senior year, you might have developed into a decent NFL prospect, if not, you will be replaced but another incoming freshman in a year or two. Play like a champion today, right away... or else."
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