How Notre Dame Accidentally Recruited Justin Tuck // UHND.com [Video]

Bob Davie didn’t do many good things as the head coach of the Fighting Irish from 1997-2001, but one of the things he does get credit for is discovering Justin Tuck when he was a lightly recruited, raw prospect out of Alabama. It turns out that even that was an accident for Davie and his staff towards the end of their run at Notre Dame. Tuck, appearing on the “Like A Farmer” Podcast, shared that Notre Dame actually discovered him by accident by going to the wrong high school.

As Tuck tells the story, there were three different “Central High Schools” in Alabama at the time. The Notre Dame staff, whom Tuck didn’t mention by name, went to the wrong one and didn’t realize it until the game started. The Central High School they were watching was in different colors than what they saw on tape from the player they …