The Weekly Rambler: The Cool Kid’s Apartment

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel has signed a contract extension that will see him paid $9 million per year through the 2028 season. The Vols have also given athletic director Danny White (son of former Notre Dame AD Kevin White) a new [...]

By |2023-01-26T14:19:43-05:00January 26th, 2023|18S Reads|17 Comments

Reviewing the Redshirts: We Call Him Peanut Butter

Reviewing the Redshirts is an off-season project meant to resurrect discussion about the 2022 Notre Dame freshmen who retained a year of eligibility and discuss their possible impact in 2023 and beyond. The Fighting Irish were able to redshirt 17 players this past season while 1 player medically retired (Joey Tanona) and another player has [...]

By |2023-01-25T08:48:14-05:00January 25th, 2023|Football|12 Comments

Grading the 2023 College Football Head Coaching Hires

The Football Bowl Subdivision (do we need to re-name this in the playoff era? I vote yes.) saw 24 new head coaches hired this off-season, which includes a couple of interim tags that were removed for the full-time gig back in December. Remember, the new Big 12 debuts this season which is going to change [...]

By |2023-01-23T10:32:38-05:00January 23rd, 2023|Football|30 Comments

Irish Hoops: Early Candidates to Replace Mike Brey

Reports surfaced Thursday afternoon that long-time Notre Dame head basketball coach Mike Brey would be retiring at season's end. It is truly an understatement to call this a momentous day for a program that has been helmed by the same man for 23 seasons...23!!! https://twitter.com/tnoieNDI/status/1616181539007512577?s=20&t=rQUxYtVmnje2vZF1aoBYAA My reaction to the news was and still is fairly [...]

By |2023-01-20T14:19:02-05:00January 20th, 2023|Basketball|29 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Out of Touch with Board Games

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame's 2023 football schedule was finalized on Wednesday. With the week 0 game in Ireland the schedule will feature 2 (bizarrely placed) bye weeks for the Irish. Aug. 26 vs. Navy [Dublin] Sept. 2 vs. Tennessee State Sept. 9 at NC [...]

By |2023-01-19T11:55:59-05:00January 19th, 2023|18S Reads|24 Comments

Reviewing the Redshirts: The Price is Right

Reviewing the Redshirts is an off-season project meant to resurrect discussion about the 2022 Notre Dame freshmen who retained a year of eligibility and discuss their possible impact in 2023 and beyond. The Fighting Irish were able to redshirt 17 players this past season while 1 player medically retired (Joey Tanona) and another player has [...]

By |2023-01-18T08:25:54-05:00January 18th, 2023|Football|14 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Thinking About the Very Best Cereals

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman and Oklahoma State safety Thomas Harper both committed to Notre Dame as grad transfers recently. Other transfer targets WR Ardel Anthony (Oklahoma), DE Anthony Lucas (USC), DE Rondell Bothroyd (Oklahoma), and DB Jalen Catalon (Texas) have chosen [...]

By |2023-01-12T08:52:41-05:00January 12th, 2023|18S Reads|72 Comments

National Championship Game Preview: A College Game with No Tailgating

SoFi Stadium opened up for the 2020 football season, hosted Super Bowl LVI last February, and is set to host the college football National Championship on Monday night. We are concluding the 9th College Football Playoffs and the penultimate edition before the sport adopts an expanded 12-team field with the 2024 season. The history of [...]

By |2023-01-08T20:02:23-05:00January 8th, 2023|Football|21 Comments

The Notre Dame 2023 Transfer Portal Priorities

It's another off-season of challenge for Notre Dame as they attempt to bring in transfers to the football team while working around a stricter framework (not quite as bad as Stanford, but still) of academics. As of this writing, the Fighting Irish have already brought in 3 (scholarship) transfers this off-season and a ton of [...]

By |2023-01-06T13:02:29-05:00January 6th, 2023|Football|29 Comments

Sam Hartman Transfers to Notre Dame: The Full Scouting Report

Notre Dame picked up big news for 2023 as it broke today that Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman is expected to grad transfer to Notre Dame for his final season of eligibility (per IrishSportsDaily, Irish Illustrated/247, and Blue & Gold Illustrated/On3, among others). Hartman was a 2018 3-star (0.8626) recruit for Wake Forest and was the [...]

By |2023-01-05T16:29:40-05:00January 5th, 2023|Football|51 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: We Praise Thee, Oh Hypnotoad

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Former Pitt Panther (heavily recruited by Notre Dame) and current Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field Monday night against the Bengals. I'm sure everyone has seen the story and is watching his recovery. Here at 18S we pray he [...]

By |2023-01-04T11:22:46-05:00January 4th, 2023|18S Reads|23 Comments

Scholarship Update: Getting Down to 85 and the Start of 2024

There's no doubt that roster churn in college football is very real these days. I can remember back in the early Brian Kelly days with these scholarship articles discussing the difficult decisions of having 1 or 2 players not making their mark on the field having sit downs with the coaching staff to look elsewhere [...]

By |2023-01-01T21:32:24-05:00January 2nd, 2023|Recruiting|37 Comments
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