When I was a kid, Notre Dame pretty much sucked. I turned 11 during Bob Davie's first season, also the first season for me back in Indiana after over six years in South Carolina. So I was well into adulthood before I witnessed a truly very good Notre Dame football team, and well into my [...]
It's one of Notre Dame nation's favorite words when delivered by Marcus Freeman: Violence. And the second I heard it come out of his mouth in the pregame interview today, all concerns about Rice being the next horror story chapter in the "second game of a Marcus Freeman season" book basically went out the window. [...]
Maybe I'm easily impressed - other than the 2006 Sugar Bowl, every other Notre Dame game I've attended was in South Bend - but Lambeau Field was a 1-of-1 to me. What a place and what a scene. My blessed wife, aiming to cushion the blow of my upcoming 40th birthday, gifted me a trip [...]
After much hemming and hawing through the media, Notre Dame and USC announced a 4-year agreement Monday to play their historic rivalry game starting in 2030. The series will start at SC in 2030 and will be played in week 1 of the first two seasons of the deal before being played at some undetermined [...]
For those of you plugged-in types (and my sympathies if you are), you might have seen a Notre Dame-themed Twitter account brag after Ohio State's massive uniform-advertisement deal with Chase Bank was announced this morning that the Irish would never, repeat NEVER, stoop so low as to infect their uniforms with corporate sponsors. What happened [...]
To paraphrase Frank the Tank from Old School, if you're reading this, you already know. The program has been boarded up. The promising freshman. The veteran point guard. The sharpshooting sophomore. Everything. We're at the Purcell Pavilion. I love you. Frank. The recent past It's not clear what's next for Notre Dame basketball after a [...]
Today was far less about Notre Dame/Stanford than a bunch of other games with playoff implications for Notre Dame. Almost every single one went badly except for the Irish's game, an easy win that sent ND into whatever postseason it ends up in on a 10-game win streak, each of which with a 99.4% or [...]
I thought about writing up a draft of this post earlier this morning, assuming it would just be a matter of filling in some details. But then my kid wanted to watch the Knuckles series, so that went by the wayside. The Knuckles series had far more drama than Saturday's game, as Notre Dame utterly [...]
Find yourself a partner who cares as much about you as Pat Narduzzi cares about tweaking Notre Dame. A few days after inexplicably saying his team's matchup against the Irish didn't matter if they won the conference title (which they're not presently in position to do, worth noting), Narduzzi rode two of several ridiculous penalty [...]
The Notre Dame fan base has treated the Navy game largely the same each year under Marcus Freeman (including his year as defensive coordinator): Brief moments of panic early in the game that this is going to be, as some of us put it, the annual trip to the dentist's office, followed by a fairly [...]
There were so many terrible things about Notre Dame's 25-10 victory over Boston College Saturday that I'm not sure which one I hated the most. Let's take them in chronological order: Kicking This is an absolute traveshamockery. A presumably fed-up Marcus Freeman benched Noah Burnette after he doinked another PAT and went for 2 after [...]
It was important Notre Dame won tonight's game for a lot of reasons, but a statement of intent for the program was in order. Play USC, beat USC, and beat USC playing the kind of football they refuse to play. Notre Dame eventually stopped screwing around and beat the Trojans into submission Saturday, 34-24, leaving [...]
Is it just me, or was this the first game of the season that had real 2024 vibes? Notre Dame tripped over itself a few times early Saturday, and we had a good old-fashioned ref show late in the first half (I'll leave discussion of that to the comments), but things calmed down after halftime [...]
One of these years, perhaps Notre Dame fans will get used to the Irish responding to being pushed to the brink of doom. Year after year it has occurred and year after year ND brings its A game just when fan pessimism is at its height. There was no question of the Irish's A game [...]
Two years in a row Notre Dame came into a matchup with Purdue deflated. Two years in a row the Irish have left the matchup with a W, though this one was a bit different. That probably says as much about Purdue - no longer a complete train wreck - as it does about Notre [...]
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