On ND.
I don't miss many of their games and I'm familiar with the injury to Floyd. I have watched Golden Tate snare many difficult passes and he does a good job hanging on. Nevertheless, my expectation of the ND team, as a whole, is very high. Many Alum feel that way too. Season after season I am disappointed. Defining average is important to my opinion that the support around Clausen is slightly better than average. Better than he is. I'll try to define my reference to average and slighlty better than average.
All first string WRs at the college level should be able to run clean routes and catch the ball. A receiver that does this consistently is average. It's expected play. A receiver who does this and who successfully makes lunging catches, fights off double coverage from time to time is "good", which equates to "slightly better than average" in my mind. A top receiver is one that is quick enough to out run his coverage, run clean quick routes, fools his coverage on short and long routes, makes successful diving and lunging catches and is a threat on any lead pass that he catches as he could take it all the way for a TD.
At this point in Jimmy Clausen's 3-year ND football career, his supporting WR are "slightly better than average," IMHO. If anything, I wish that Clausen was better, and was the next coming of Joe Theisman or Joe Montana. Perhaps, his WR corp would really shine then.
Golden Tate will be a NFL pick some day. Floyd is probable too. Jimmy Clausen--I don't think so--but miracles have known to happen at ND.