About Brendan R

People who know me best say that I'm sociable, have a dry sense of humor, a predilection for useless trivia, and can obsess about meaningless details. I'm happily married to a woman who thankfully still hasn't figured out that I married up, and we have three great kids, all boys who are trying to destroy our house in stages. They're quite efficient at it, too. In what time I have left over after the various cleanup efforts, I'm a sports nut, a science geek, an unabashed Shakespeare lover, and an aspiring 50-state marathoner.

2022 Football Recruiting: DE Darren Agu Commits to Notre Dame

Notre Dame added another big, athletic defensive end to its 2022 class today when Darren Agu announced for the Irish. The 6'6", 225-pound Georgia resident has had quite a fascinating journey to where he is now. Born in Ireland, Agu moved to London as a child. He played six-man football there and made a name [...]

By |2021-04-09T16:31:11-04:00April 9th, 2021|Football, Recruiting|4 Comments

2022 Football Recruiting Big Board: Offense Update 3/29

A few weeks back we kicked off the 2022 offense big board with a comprehensive run down of where everything stood. Fast forward a couple of weeks and we don't have a ton of movement, but we do have a couple of developments worth noting. The Irish staff used St. Patrick's day as a huge [...]

By |2021-04-21T10:37:09-04:00March 29th, 2021|Football, Recruiting|14 Comments

2022 Football Recruiting Big Board: Defense Launch

The other day we kicked off the 2022 offense big board; today we're going to jump into the defense. Going forward we'll update the board by position groups every other week; the offense will be split into QB/RB/OL and WR/TE, while the defense will be split into DL/LB and DB. We may increase the frequency [...]

By |2021-03-15T11:14:02-04:00March 15th, 2021|Football, Recruiting|10 Comments

2022 Football Recruiting: WR Amorion Walker Commits to Notre Dame

Notre Dame broke the seal on the 2022 wide receiver group today when Amorion Walker announced for the Irish. While the staff had offered the 6'4", 180-pound Louisianan way back in November, things heated up with him considerably over the last month or so. Walker's frame is similar to other recent big receivers for the [...]

By |2021-03-10T12:39:48-05:00March 10th, 2021|Football, Recruiting|23 Comments

2022 Football Recruiting: QB Steve Angeli Commits to Notre Dame

Notre Dame finally added the QB lynchpin to its 2022 class today when Steve "Peanut Butter" Angeli (credit to Eric for that one!) announced for the Irish. The 6'4", 215-pound New Jerseyan had to wait for a few other dominoes to fall, and to his credit stayed patient through it. The Irish staff had prioritized [...]

By |2021-03-05T12:08:41-05:00March 5th, 2021|Football, Recruiting|34 Comments

2021 Football Recruiting Grades: Defensive Backs

Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2021 Notre Dame recruiting class with recruit grades and some thoughts on the class. We started a deeper dive on each position group with the offensive backfield (and shoehorned the kicker into it), then we moved on to the guys whose main job is to catch the damn [...]

By |2021-02-09T13:49:27-05:00March 1st, 2021|Football, Recruiting|5 Comments

2021 Football Recruiting Grades: Front Seven

Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2021 Notre Dame recruiting class with recruit grades and some thoughts on the class. We started a deeper dive on each position group with the offensive backfield (and shoehorned the kicker into it), then we moved on to the guys whose main job is to catch the damn [...]

By |2021-02-25T08:43:04-05:00February 25th, 2021|Football, Recruiting|30 Comments

2022 Football Recruiting: RB JD Price Commits to Notre Dame

Notre Dame added a key offensive piece to its 2022 class yesterday when four-star running back Jadarian "JD" Price announced for the Irish. The 5'11", 180-pound Texan picked up his Notre Dame offer a little over three weeks ago and was set to visit independently this week before the Lone Star State ice storm wrecked [...]

By |2021-02-22T10:12:25-05:00February 22nd, 2021|Football, Recruiting|7 Comments

2021 Football Recruiting Grades: Offensive Line

Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2021 Notre Dame recruiting class with recruit grades and some thoughts on the class. We started a deeper dive on each position group with the offensive backfield (and shoehorned the kicker into it), then we moved on to the guys whose main job is to catch the damn [...]

By |2021-02-17T10:11:57-05:00February 21st, 2021|Football, Recruiting|7 Comments

2021 Football Recruiting Grades: Receivers

Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2021 Notre Dame recruiting class with recruit grades and some thoughts on the class. We started a deeper dive on each position group with the offensive backfield (and shoehorned the kicker into it). Today we're going to dig into the guys whose main job is to catch the [...]

By |2021-02-17T10:04:44-05:00February 17th, 2021|Football, Recruiting|9 Comments

2021 Football Recruiting Grades: Offensive Backfield & Kicker

Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2021 Notre Dame recruiting class with recruit grades and some thoughts on the class. Over the next several days we'll go into a deeper dive on each position group, starting today with the offensive backfield. Plus the kicker, because he has to go somewhere. As a reminder, here's our [...]

By |2021-02-13T11:06:30-05:00February 13th, 2021|Football, Recruiting|22 Comments

2022 Football Recruiting: DE Aiden Gobaira Commits to Notre Dame

The 2022 Notre Dame class picked up its fourth linemen recently when weakside defensive end Aiden Gobaira announced for the Irish. The 6'6", 235-pound Virginian joined recent commit Tyson Ford in the 2022 defensive line group. Ford is more acclaimed at the moment, but there are some similarities between them - both are long, quick, [...]

By |2021-02-12T09:30:46-05:00February 11th, 2021|Football, Recruiting|9 Comments

The 2021 National Signing Day Review: Can You Diggs It?

The End of a Strange Journey The prospects of the 2021 class undoubtedly went through the strangest recruiting experience in the post-World War II era of college football. They couldn't take real visits, couldn't view practices, couldn't go to games, couldn't have coaches visit them. When they committed, it was often to a school they [...]

By |2021-02-09T14:08:46-05:00February 9th, 2021|Football, Recruiting|30 Comments

2022 Football Recruiting: DE Tyson Ford Commits to Notre Dame

Notre Dame added a huge piece to its 2022 class today when blue-chip defensive end Tyson Ford announced for the Irish. The 6'5", 245-pound Missourian became the fifth player and the first defensive lineman in the class. Ford also makes the 2022 class the fourth straight with a commitment from the greater St. Louis area, [...]

By |2021-01-18T16:19:23-05:00January 18th, 2021|Recruiting|16 Comments
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