ND DE Ronald Talley leaves Irish

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Notre Dame DE Talley leaves team
Posted: Thursday October 12, 2006 5:28PM; Updated: Thursday October 12, 2006 5:40PM

Notre Dame DE Ronald Talley has recorded 11 tackles this season.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Notre Dame defensive end Ronald Talley, who started four games this season, has decided to leave the Notre Dame football team.

The school said Thursday the decision was mutually agreed upon. Coach Charlie Weis was not available for comment. Ninth-ranked Notre Dame is in a bye week and doesn't play again until Oct. 21 against UCLA.

In six games this season, Talley, a 6-foot-4, 262-pound junior from Detroit, had 11 tackles, one of them solo. Chris Frome, who started the other two games at right defensive end, had 12 tackles, five of them solo.

 

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Charlie Weis was not available to bash the players decision.

 

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I guess Talley must have also been embarassed with the shitty defense over on South Bend.

 

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DE Talley off team, will transfer

October 13, 2006
Notre Dame defensive end Ronald Talley has left the team and will transfer at the end of the semester. The 6-4, 262-pound junior made the decision after a 15-minute meeting with coach Charlie Weis on Thursday afternoon. "We decided it was time to go ahead and part ways," Talley said. "I don't want to get too much into it. We just felt it was the best thing for both parties."
Weis was unavailable for comment.
Talley had shared time with Chris Frome at right defensive end, starting four of six games. Neither player was particularly productive in the first half of the season: Talley had 11 tackles and Frome 12, and neither had a sack.
Talley, a Detroit-area native, said he has not considered another school. He will have to sit out a year if he transfers to another Division I-A program.
"I'm not sure about anything yet, to be honest," he said. "Location is not a problem. It's not about being closer to home."
Antonio Watts, Talley's position coach at Renaissance High School in Detroit, said Talley called as a freshman and expressed concern about fitting in at Notre Dame. Talley downplayed that conversation.
"It's not that I couldn't handle it," Talley said. "It was just being a freshman, the first time in that environment.
"I've got a lot of homeboys here. I will be rooting for them."
Talley's departure means more playing time for Frome, who has made a steady comeback from a season-ending knee injury a year ago. The Irish are looking for a solid complement to standout left end Victor Abiamiri.
? ? Weis said the "60 Minutes" feature on him is scheduled to run Oct. 29. "We started about eight months ago doing little parts of this," he said.
? ? The first Bowl Championship Series standings will be released at 3:15 p.m. Sunday on Fox-32 during NFL postgame coverage. Notre Dame would have been sixth this week, according to ESPN.

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