Notre Dame's 2022 recruiting class reached the 20-person mark on Wednesday with the addition of wide receiver Tobias Merriweather out of Union High School in southwestern Washington State just across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon. He was offered on November 19, 2020 and becomes the 2nd receiver in the class for the Fighting Irish. [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. In the News Texas and Oklahoma have let the Big 12 know they will not be continuing their media rights beyond 2025. Now, we wait and see if these programs can negotiate an early exit to the SEC. The SEC already voted unanimously (nice [...]
Two years we ago we debuted the 18 Stripes Hall of Fame Pyramid for Notre Dame football and its extensive history of wonderful talent. You can read the final rankings from 2019 HERE with links to the previous levels of the pyramid linked therein. We’re now adding players who have left Notre Dame since the conclusion of [...]
College football--and college sports in general--are really going through some unprecedented times right now. The NIL rules have shaken up over 100 years of amateur tradition, the NCAA is on unsteady ground as an institution, while the conference expansion roulette heating up really feels like it's about to re-draw the map in a lasting way [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. In the News Conference expansion is back, baby! Reports are suggesting that Texas and Oklahoma are in serious discussions to join the SEC. Notre Dame's game this fall against Virginia Tech will be broadcast on the ACC Network. The NCAA lost more than half [...]
Two years we ago we debuted the 18 Stripes Hall of Fame Pyramid for Notre Dame football and its extensive history of wonderful talent. You can read the final rankings from 2019 HERE with links to the previous levels of the pyramid linked therein. We’re now adding players who have left Notre Dame since the conclusion of [...]
This next installment of How Did This Happen was supposed to be about Barry Bonds. My idea was to look at his infamous 2004 season in which Bonds re-broke his own MLB record for intentional walks in a season by 52 and furthered the gap for the most from not-Barry Bonds by an incredible 75 [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. In the News Frank Solich is stepping down as the head coach at Ohio due to health reasons. The former Nebraska head coach had been with the Bobcats for 16 seasons. Nebraska has hired their new athletic director, former Huskers All-American Trev Alberts (who [...]
Two years we ago we debuted the 18 Stripes Hall of Fame Pyramid for Notre Dame football and its extensive history of wonderful talent. You can read the final rankings from 2019 HERE with links to the previous levels of the pyramid linked therein. We're now adding players who have left Notre Dame since the conclusion of [...]
To wrap up our celebration of the 18 Stripes 5-year anniversary I wanted to look back at my favorite moments on the field since the 2016 season began. You could also call these the best moments, as well. Whatever you call it we're having a good time. Instead of ranking the moments from worst to [...]
In honor of our 5-year celebration since beginning 18 Stripes we have assembled some of our writers to complete a roundtable discussion. If you missed Part 1 from yesterday you can read it HERE. We'll finish up this roundtable with a handful more questions focusing on the Notre Dame program. Did you think Brian Kelly [...]
As part of our 18 Stripes 5-year anniversary weekly special we wanted to give our readers a nice long roundtable discussion about Notre Dame football. It got so long we had to break it into 2 parts. But they are still 2 very long parts. Enjoy! Which player surprised you the most based on your [...]
As we mentioned yesterday, we just passed our 5-year anniversary since the creation of 18 Stripes and I've been covering Irish football in one degree or another for about 14 years now. When I started on this journey I was 25 and next January I'll be 40 with 3 kids aged 4.5, 2.5, and 3 [...]
This website launched 5 years ago tomorrow back on July 6, 2016. We've now been in this home we built for just about as long as our old website existed back at SB Nation. It's been a long, strange trip for me personally to still be here today doing something, that frankly, still brings me [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. In the News The NCAA has passed Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) rules that went into effect yesterday. Buckle up. Players are already starting to debut their own brands with the new NIL rules. BYU says their NIL must adhere to their honor code [...]
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