If Barry Sanders isn't considered the greatest college football player of all-time his 1988 Heisman-winning campaign may be the single greatest season in the history of the sport. For the record, ESPN ranked Sanders merely the 9th best player in college history during their celebration of the 150th anniversary of the game a year ago. [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. In the News As expected, Notre Dame's season opener at Florida State will kickoff at 7:30 PM ET and be televised by ABC. Remember, this is a Sunday game! By the way, if you'd like to attend a Notre Dame football home game this [...]
Wayne Gretzky's all-time points lead is about as safe of a record as you'll find in any sport. He famously has more assists (1,963) than anyone else has points (although Jaromir Jagr came close with 1,921 career points) and only 4 current active players are in the top 50 in overall points with the highest [...]
During our last scholarship update back in mid-January we paid special attention to the one-off rule(s) regarding eligibility for the 2021 season coming off the effects of the pandemic at a time when Notre Dame's recruiting class was quite small and spring ball--and thus some transfers--hadn't occurred yet. As a refresher here's another look at [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. In the News Former Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan was found dead at the age of 37 years old. The NCAA seems to be clearing the way to allow NIL rights before July 1st. Buffalo hired Maurice Linquist to replace Lance Leipold after Linquist was [...]
Recently, Notre Dame saw another player who left early selected in the NFL Draft. Although the Irish program is creeping towards 20 players all-time who left early for the Draft they have seen a major uptick in the Brian Kelly era following an extremely long dry spell. Full disclosure, we're using the traditional and strictest [...]
Recently, we journeyed back to the first big home game of the 2012 season and a copious amount of turnovers from Michigan. Today, we'll venture back to 2012 again and the regular season finale in Los Angeles. A game which, at the conclusion of, I teared up quite a bit. I'll bet many of you [...]
In Part 1 of this series we looked at the defensive recruiting of Clemson in the 2012-14 window in the lead up to their 2016 National Championship, how they supplemented that recruiting with young players, and comparisons to Notre Dame then and now. Today, we'll tackle the offense where Clemson hit on a generational quarterback [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Back after a week off! In the News Backup running back C'Bo Flemister has been charged with leaving the scene of a crime after crashing his car on South Bend Avenue back on April 25th. Notre Dame announced the kickoff times for the 2021 [...]
Over at ESPN+ a while back I was reading how Bill Connelly compared Notre Dame today to Clemson in the 2012-14 window with how the Irish were recruiting more blue-chips in the present than the Tigers were back then. So, I want to do 2 things in this two-part series. One, compare Notre Dame's 2012-14 [...]
Notre Dame had 9 players picked in the 2021 NFL Draft, the most since the 1994 Draft when 10 players came off the board from South Bend. Don't you worry about what happened in the '94 season when the Irish lost that much talent. Anyway, except for their top prospect falling it was a surprisingly [...]
The vastly superior color came away with the win on Saturday afternoon as the Blue squad defeated the Gold squad 17-3 in front of a few thousand students and family members during Notre Dame's 2021 spring game. Here are my thoughts from all of the action inside Notre Dame Stadium: I thought former receiver Corey [...]
Let us do the spring game dance. After 14 practices shut off from the media (still bitter about it), the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame will make a live public appearance inside Notre Dame Stadium to the cheers of several thousand socially-distanced fans this Saturday afternoon. If you got excited about a diving catch from [...]
Live from Cleveland, Ohio! Last year, the Draft was completely remote but this year the hosting Browns coming off a playoff appearance have been working with the NFL to offer some in-person activities around their stadium, Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame, and Cleveland harbor area. This will be the 11th Draft for Brian Kelly [...]
If you're wondering what we're doing, 18 Stripes is counting down the very best 1st Round NFL Draft picks to come out of Notre Dame. We've reached the final installment today. If you missed the first 2 articles you can read them here: Part 1 Part 2 Today, we discuss the very best 1st Round [...]
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