ND is still year's away on defense.
The first thing he'd need to do is bench both ND's starting safeties. That is the worst / slowest safety combo I've seen in college football the last few years. Not to mention they can't tackle and they take some of the worst tackle angles I've ever seen.
Kelly inherited a lot of defensive talent when he came to Cincinnati. I think 4 or 5 of the guys are playing in the NFL right now.
I don't think they'd get anyone from ND or even take them for that matter (outside of Chris Martin) but if Urban Meyer takes the job, which I think will probably happen it could help Tennessee in a big way.
If Weis is fired, names to watch would be:
Tai-ler Jones: He goes to AJJs' HS and he was interested in us before, he is also a 4 star WR who is smaller. Hubbs has said that the staff is lookin to add a WR that is smaller/ burner ala Nuke.
Chris Martin: Bigtime DE who is interested in us. If he visited it would prolly be after the season was over. We have severe depth issues at LB, this guy would help tremendously. He is a guy you make room for no matter what. He is already listed as a "soft verbal" and has us as interest.
Kendall Moore: 4 star LB who has nice size. He has shown interest in us before, but it shows we didnt offer. Would be eager to see if that changes if he opens things up.
Prince Shembo: alot like Moore. except he has an offer. We need LBs.
Tommy Rees and Andrew Hendrix: Hendrix wanted to commit to us at one time and the staff liked Rees too. Those two would be interesting.....
Just some names
Really. Cincy had ONE----1---starter back on D this year. Thats 10 new guys this year. That's coaching.
Not quite sure we go after another WR with 4 in the fold at this point. Especially now that we probably have to take at least 2, if not 3, DBs. Not quite sure how high Tai-ler would be on our board regardless.
Martin would be huge, especially when you add him to our current DE class and maybe Lemonier/Irvin as well. If we can get him to visit (maybe this week?), we would have a legit chance.
We never wanted Moore so I doubt we push now.
We really wanted Shembo, but, at this point, I don't think he's very high on our LB or DE board.
It was debated that Rees was higher on our board than Scroggins. Either way, with us not pushing for either JUCO and Jesse staying west, we may put the press on Rees. Either him or Rettig.
Hendrix has been an utter disappointment and we would be wasting a scholly if we were to push for him.