Posted on Sunday 20 June 2010
Jimmy Clausen is well known in enthusiast circles as a former American football quarterback for the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. Although many fans of Notre Dame football program, see the games on NBC every Saturday in the fall and realized that Jimmy was a top high school football in California, not so many do not realize that he is actually the third brother in a line of Division I football quarterbacks in his family.
Jimmy Clausen was born andin southern California and first place in the northern part of Los Angeles around Thousand Oaks, California grow. Before Jimmy excellent high school quarterback for Oaks Christian High School, where he recorded a 42-0 record as a starter and eventually was named USA Today Offensive Player of the Year in 2006, watched from the gallery as a young, while his brothers had success as a high school quarterback back. Brothers Casey and Rick were bothheavily recruited college prospect quarterback position when their younger brother Jimmy was still learning the basics, such as a student in the class.
Casey Clausen is the eldest of three brothers when Clausen was born in January 1981, which is just over six and a half years older than his brother, Jimmy. Rick, the middle brother, was born in June 1982. All three brothers are about the same height at which all stand around 6'3 "tall.Casey's older brother, dressed, and the importance of national recruitment for the game Bishop Alemany High School (located in Mission Hills area of Los Angeles) in the late 1990s. After careful consideration of possible colleges Casey ultimately across the country traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he was four years starting quarterback for the University of Tennessee Volunteers football team, which competes in the treacherous South Eastern Conference (SEC) . Despite a high degree of successon a winning team Casey has never had to make an NFL roster, despite a brief dialogue with the Kansas City Chiefs after going undrafted in 2004 NFL Draft.
Rick Clausen came in the footsteps of his older brother and also went on to play quarterback in the SEC after school. Rick attended LSU where he played a minimum of time as a backup quarterback. After just three games during his two years at LSU, Rick transferred to the University of Tennessee, hoping tomore playing time. The highlight of the college playing career, Rick had put together when attacked MVP was awarded the management of the University of Tennessee for a 2005 Cotton Bowl victory over Texas A & M.
Despite a university career lustelose in terms of gains and losses to Notre Dame Jimmy Clausen is expected to do what none of his two older brothers were able to do and it is a power in the NFL to do.
