Reviewing the Redshirts is an off-season project meant to resurrect discussion about the 2022 Notre Dame freshmen who retained a year of eligibility and discuss their possible impact in 2023 and beyond. The Fighting Irish were able to redshirt 17 players this past season while 1 player medically retired (Joey Tanona) and another player has [...]
The Football Bowl Subdivision (do we need to re-name this in the playoff era? I vote yes.) saw 24 new head coaches hired this off-season, which includes a couple of interim tags that were removed for the full-time gig back in December. Remember, the new Big 12 debuts this season which is going to change [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame's 2023 football schedule was finalized on Wednesday. With the week 0 game in Ireland the schedule will feature 2 (bizarrely placed) bye weeks for the Irish. Aug. 26 vs. Navy [Dublin] Sept. 2 vs. Tennessee State Sept. 9 at NC [...]
Reviewing the Redshirts is an off-season project meant to resurrect discussion about the 2022 Notre Dame freshmen who retained a year of eligibility and discuss their possible impact in 2023 and beyond. The Fighting Irish were able to redshirt 17 players this past season while 1 player medically retired (Joey Tanona) and another player has [...]
This article last year had a lot of conflicting feelings as the entertaining and productive Kyren Williams was moving on to the NFL leaving behind a huge hole in the running backs room. But at the end of 2021 there were a lot of bad rushing stats left behind and Jeff Quinn was not retained [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman and Oklahoma State safety Thomas Harper both committed to Notre Dame as grad transfers recently. Other transfer targets WR Ardel Anthony (Oklahoma), DE Anthony Lucas (USC), DE Rondell Bothroyd (Oklahoma), and DB Jalen Catalon (Texas) have chosen [...]
Another season over and another long off-season begins. We embrace the darkness. As of this writing, we have 228 days until Notre Dame opens up the 2023 season across the pond in Dublin against Navy with a new head coach. Our Fighting Irish had a heck of a ride in 2022 capped off by a [...]
SoFi Stadium opened up for the 2020 football season, hosted Super Bowl LVI last February, and is set to host the college football National Championship on Monday night. We are concluding the 9th College Football Playoffs and the penultimate edition before the sport adopts an expanded 12-team field with the 2024 season. The history of [...]
It's another off-season of challenge for Notre Dame as they attempt to bring in transfers to the football team while working around a stricter framework (not quite as bad as Stanford, but still) of academics. As of this writing, the Fighting Irish have already brought in 3 (scholarship) transfers this off-season and a ton of [...]
Notre Dame picked up big news for 2023 as it broke today that Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman is expected to grad transfer to Notre Dame for his final season of eligibility (per IrishSportsDaily, Irish Illustrated/247, and Blue & Gold Illustrated/On3, among others). Hartman was a 2018 3-star (0.8626) recruit for Wake Forest and was the [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Former Pitt Panther (heavily recruited by Notre Dame) and current Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field Monday night against the Bengals. I'm sure everyone has seen the story and is watching his recovery. Here at 18S we pray he [...]
There's no doubt that roster churn in college football is very real these days. I can remember back in the early Brian Kelly days with these scholarship articles discussing the difficult decisions of having 1 or 2 players not making their mark on the field having sit downs with the coaching staff to look elsewhere [...]
They had us for most of the 1st half, I'm not going to lie. On Friday in Jacksonville, Notre Dame came out awfully rusty, looking a bit disinterested, while South Carolina was throwing the kitchen sink at the Irish early in the game. At one point, the Gamecocks led 21-7 and 24-10 to give me [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Western Michigan grad transfer defensive tackle Braden Fiske has chosen Florida State over Notre Dame and USC. Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman has entered the transfer portal. Now, we await his decision :) Former Texas quarterback Hudson Card has transferred to Purdue. [...]
Notre Dame finished the regular season with USC and will complete the bowl season facing the other USC from the southeast. Friday afternoon live from Jacksonville, the Irish will face South Carolina in the 78th edition of the Gator Bowl. ***Gator Bowl Mini-Preview*** This will be the first time Notre Dame and the Gamecocks meet [...]
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