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You Won’t Believe This INSANE 2023 Stat for Notre Dame Football!

Welcome to 2024. In years past I would publish a yards per play prediction for each Notre Dame season. Turns out, I forgot to do this for the 2022 and 2023 seasons. Heading into the 2021 season I predicted the team would finish with a +1.07 YPP differential and they would ultimately finish with a [...]

By |2024-01-01T16:39:47-05:00January 2nd, 2024|Football|46 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Humbled by Tyson

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame has hired LSU's Mike Denbrock to be offensive coordinator for the Irish. Texas quarterback Maalik Murphy is transferring to Duke. Tennessee quarterback Joe Milton is entering the NFL Draft and skipping the Vols' bowl game. Florida State wide receiver Keon [...]

By |2023-12-28T10:36:50-05:00December 28th, 2023|18S Reads|45 Comments

2023 Sun Bowl Preview: We Can Opt Out Too

When the Sun Bowl kicks off this Friday afternoon in El Paso it'll have been 34 days since Notre Dame's last football game. A lot has happened since then. The Irish fired their wide receivers coach, hired a new wideout coach, hired a new strength and conditioning coach, a bunch of transfers committed, current players [...]

By |2023-12-25T15:51:36-05:00December 26th, 2023|Football|38 Comments

The Top 50 Iconic Uniforms in Sports: #48

Merry Christmas! Welcome to this website's off-season sports sartorial content. We are counting down the world's top 50 most iconic sports uniforms. Only current uniforms apply, we are not including one-off or alternate uniforms. Let's stick to the basics. #48 Netherlands Soccer Lately, the Oranje Army has been associated strongly with the dominance of Dutch [...]

By |2023-12-24T21:52:45-05:00December 25th, 2023|18S Reads|2 Comments

Third Times a Charm: Mike Denbrock Hired as Notre Dame Offensive Coordinator

On Wednesday during Marcus Freeman's ESD press conference he stated that there was no timeline on making a new offensive coordinator hire and that the school would be doing a national search. I joked in the writer's Slack that if this was anything like his earlier comments about wanting to keep all of the coach's [...]

By |2023-12-22T13:17:58-05:00December 22nd, 2023|Football|23 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: The Statue is Unveiled

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame offensive coordinator Gerad Parker has been hired as the new head coach at Troy. Notre Dame unveiled the Muffett McGraw statue this past weekend to a crowd outside the Joyce Center on campus. Former Broncos strength and conditioning coach Loren [...]

By |2023-12-21T10:12:53-05:00December 21st, 2023|18S Reads|48 Comments

The Top 50 Iconic Uniforms in Sports: #49

Welcome to this website's off-season sports sartorial content. We are counting down the world's top 50 most iconic sports uniforms. Only current uniforms apply, we are not including one-off or alternate uniforms. Let's stick to the basics. #49 Indianapolis Colts I suppose you could say this is Baltimore making this list today. Worry not, the [...]

By |2023-12-18T09:13:46-05:00December 19th, 2023|18S Reads|5 Comments

Notre Dame 2024 Recruiting: Early Signing Day Primer

It has been 557 days since the Notre Dame 2024 recruiting class officially got underway with its first verbal commitment from quarterback CJ Carr out of Saline, Michigan. This week, the Early Signing Period begins on Wednesday, December 20th and lasts through Friday, December 21st signaling the beginning of the end of this recruiting story [...]

By |2023-12-17T09:22:49-05:00December 18th, 2023|Recruiting|95 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Daniels Needs to Unlearn Brian Kelly’s System

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels has won the Heisman Trophy. That is the 3rd winner for the Tigers after Billy Cannon (1959) and Joe Burrow (2019). Joe Alt and Xavier Watts have been named Walter Camp 1st-team All-Americans. In addition, Howard Cross was [...]

By |2023-12-14T21:31:37-05:00December 14th, 2023|18S Reads|40 Comments

The Top 50 Iconic Uniforms in Sports: #50

Welcome to this website's off-season sports sartorial content. We are counting down the world's top 50 most iconic sports uniforms. Only current uniforms apply, we are not including one-off or alternate uniforms. Let's stick to the basics. #50 Boston Red Sox In many Major League Baseball uniform lists you may see the Red Sox among [...]

By |2023-12-13T18:53:49-05:00December 14th, 2023|18S Reads|14 Comments

Riley Leonard Transfers to Notre Dame: The Full Scouting Report

After a couple weeks of recruiting and interest from both parties, Notre Dame has officially added quarterback transfer Riley Leonard from Duke on Monday. The rising true senior originally from Fairhope, Alabama on the shores of Mobile Bay had started 21 games for the Blue Devils and looked primed for a big junior year before [...]

By |2023-12-12T10:37:55-05:00December 12th, 2023|Football|71 Comments

What if College Football Walked Away from Minor Bowl Games?

You probably shouldn't listen to me if you enjoy bowl games. For years, I've been pushing the narrative that the bowl games are slowly becoming obsolete and that college football needs to do something about it. Now, things are accelerating far more quickly as we zoom towards the 12-team playoff era and I don't see [...]

By |2023-12-11T08:36:14-05:00December 11th, 2023|Football|53 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Travis Kelce Was Just In Another Commercial

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Irish safety Xavier Watts won the 2023 Nagurski Trophy. Bo Nix, Michael Penix, Jayden Daniels, and Marvin Harrison are the 2023 Heisman finalists. Daniels won the AP Player of the Year award. Alabama quarterback Tyler Buchner is transferring back to Notre Dame...to [...]

By |2023-12-08T08:30:51-05:00December 8th, 2023|18S Reads|53 Comments
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