If you like to chug the kool-aid there's no better day than the opening practice of fall camp, or whenever the media gets its first full length viewing of the Fighting Irish. Think about watching 85+ football players moving all over the place and trying to judge them, yet we get tons of comments all [...]
Monday at noon Notre Dame head football coach Brian Kelly met with the media for just under an hour to officially open the 2017 fall camp session and unofficially the 2017 season as a whole. The Irish will practice Tuesday from 12:30 to 3:50 with media in full attendance. Too bad it's just in shorts [...]
It's safe to say there's more intrigue on the defensive side of the ball with fall camp beginning tomorrow. Yet, Notre Dame recruits better, has more talent and depth, plus dare I say has better coaching on offense. This side of the ball is a lot more fun for Irish fans, no doubt. Let's check [...]
"I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man who...got to push the re-start button." Last week Brendan reviewed the South Bend Tribune's annual ND Insider football magazine and on Sunday long-time beat reporter Eric Hansen unveiled his super in-depth look into a day in the life with Brian Kelly that is in [...]
Technically speaking, summer doesn't end until the day before Notre Dame plays Michigan State. That'll be the 4th game of the season for the Irish. Nevertheless, the set of practices we call fall camp is just around the corner beginning Tuesday, August 1st. Speaking of 4th game, that's how far Brian VanGorder got as defensive [...]
Back on January 24th following the end of the College Football Playoff I took the opportunity to remind everyone that the upcoming football season would be the first for Notre Dame's $400 million Crossroads project. Now, we're just a matter of weeks away from the debut* of the project. *It's not being advertised but the [...]
Perhaps my favorite topic to discuss is how much more difficult it is to win at Notre Dame today, or should I say if it's more difficult to win at Notre Dame. Deep down I ultimately believe how someone reacts to this topic is the best litmus test to how one views the college football [...]
The season is just around the corner and before we start heavily digging into the 2017 Fighting Irish let's first review all of the new head coaches across the country. Group of 5 Cincinnati, Luke Fickell The soon-to-be 44-year old heads down the 71 after spending 20 out of the last 23 seasons at Ohio [...]
Tuesday, July 11th was supposed to be one of the best days of the year. The EA Sports annual release date for the NCAA Football video game passed again without filling stores and households across the country. It's now been 4 straight seasons without the game, and worse still, Denard Robinson remains the last athlete [...]
Some people don't like the all-white look and those people are weirdos. Our first concept "Golden Dome Icy White" kicked off this series with an all-white uniform that is among my favorites to date. Today, we return to a dominant white concept with a familiar twist. Back in 2012 the Irish opened the season in [...]
There are plenty of things that bug me about college football. There are a lot of things that bug me about Notre Dame football. The 'how to improve college football' articles have been numerous and wide ranging in recent years, especially since the playoff and conference realignment shifted the landscape. Almost two months ago SB [...]
We are opening up the YouTube vault today for what is and what surely should remain the shortest video in our series history. It's late August of 2002 and the opening of a new era, the Tyrone Willingham era. This season in a vacuum is just...man...where do you even start? How about the old Kickoff [...]
Our long national nightmare of a college football blackout is nearly over, just one short month until fall camps open everywhere across America. For Irish fans we've endured a pretty quiet off-season (no jinx) and one bereft of major storylines circling South Bend. Unless, you count Tim Brando telling the world Notre Dame will join [...]
Today we unveil our 14th overall Notre Dame football uniform concept and our 3rd effort dressing the Irish in black. When we started to put together concepts for this series an evenly divided shamrock was the very first logo I began toying with. After a few demos I put that to the side for a bit. [...]
Well, they did it again. In many ways not much came together for Stanford in 2016. After carrying so much of the load two falls ago Christian McCaffrey couldn't do the same in 2016 and missed some time on the field. The Cardinal attempt to break in a new quarterback didn't do great, either. However, [...]
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