New Rules For Single Digits Those of you who follow Notre Dame football as obsessively closely as we here at 18 Stripes do may remember that a couple of months ago, Brian Kelly laid out some new rules for how players can get the highly-desirable single digit jersey numbers. In an appearance on a weekly [...]
Six years into his tenure, most of us would probably agree based on anecdotal evidence that Brian Kelly has demonstrated a knack for developing Notre Dame draft picks, helping players to move to the next level as a higher draft pick and/or in more productive fashion that any of us anticipated. Sometimes it's an unheralded player who [...]
We here at 18 Stripes got a lovely little gift in our mailbox the other day from our friends at the South Bend Tribune, as they sent an advance copy of the 2016 NDInsider football preseason magazine for us to review. If you want to order your own copy, you can click here to do [...]
We close out our brief (right?) look at Notre Dame football's all-time roster with a trifle, an exercise in pure entertainment, a lighter course to finish off our rich history meal. It's time to have some fun sorting through the names on the Irish roster; with nearly 3,000 players to choose from, you just know [...]
As the end of the 2016 offseason approaches, we'll take a look at scenarios for the 2017 recruiting finish and how the class could potentially rank if each plays out. While there's some element of divining to it, please note that this is NOT a prediction of who will sign with the Irish on February [...]
We talked about most of the Midwest, the Northeast, and the South already, starting in Indianapolis and working our way around clockwise to Memphis. As we continue with our review of the most notable Notre Dame players from big cities, we'll polish off the South, move to the Great Plains, and continue through the Southwest and West [...]
For the stretch run of this stroll through Notre Dame’s historical roster, we have a name theme – we’ll look at the biggest names to come out of the biggest cities in the next couple of posts, and then in the final installment we’ll look at Notre Dame’s all-time all-name team. Both lists are as [...]
While the program has always pulled athletes from all around the country, the proportions by state have shifted over the years; they have never shifted as much, though, as they have since 1993. From the dawn of the program to the end of the first World War, the roster had a heavily Midwest flavor - [...]
As we draw closer to the start of the 2016 season, we began to reflect on the 129-year history of Notre Dame football and all the faces that have come and gone in the program. The historical roster is full of fascinating nuggets that sometimes offer the joy of discovery of random trivia, and sometimes [...]
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