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The Mega 2021 Notre Dame Football Depth Chart Preview

It is time. As of this writing we are 209 days away from Notre Dame's season opener at Florida State. Today, I will take a stroll through Notre Dame's roster and cover a plethora of topics about the Irish depth chart as we head into Brian Kelly's 12th season and first with new defensive coordinator [...]

By |2021-02-08T09:03:44-05:00February 8th, 2021|Football|39 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Electronic Arts Answers Our Prayers

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. In the News Notre Dame has announced their new safeties coach in Chris O'Leary. The former Indiana State receiver has been in coaching since 2015 and was in a graduate assistant role for the Irish over the past 3 seasons. In the best news [...]

By |2021-02-05T08:32:07-05:00February 5th, 2021|18S Reads|20 Comments

An Early Look at the 2021 Notre Dame Opponent Quarterbacks: Games 7-12

Today, we are going to look at the Notre Dame opponent quarterbacks in the back half of the 2021 schedule. If you missed it, here's a link to part one from last week: Part 1: Games 1-6 The Irish are expected to be facing a tough batch of quarterback to begin 2021 but will the [...]

By |2021-02-02T08:42:55-05:00February 2nd, 2021|Football|4 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Keeping Busy This Off-Season

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Today is the start of a new piece called The Weekly Rambler that was originally scheduled to debut many months ago when it looked like there may not be a Notre Dame football season. Luckily, we were able to experience a football season--and a [...]

By |2021-01-28T20:36:24-05:00January 28th, 2021|18S Reads|33 Comments

An Early Look at the 2021 Notre Dame Opponent Quarterbacks: Games 1-6

It will be a new era at quarterback for Notre Dame in 2021 as Ian Book moves on and a fresh starter needs to be broken in soon. With the Irish facing question marks at the all-important position we wanted to take some time and look at the upcoming opponents this fall and see where [...]

By |2021-01-26T21:02:00-05:00January 26th, 2021|Football|15 Comments

Scouting the Secondary: Notes on the Difficulties of Recruiting Defensive Backs

Notre Dame has struggled recruiting in the secondary for numerous years and just hired a new defensive coordinator who emphasizes defensive backs on the field in a way that really hasn't happened before in school history. Recently, a swath of new offers for these types of players went out which suggests this is now a [...]

By |2021-01-25T20:26:46-05:00January 24th, 2021|Recruiting|8 Comments

An Interview with Brian Fremeau of the Fremeau Efficiency Index

Although the 2020 college football season ended with a dominant Alabama team winning a title and that's a story we've seen numerous times in recent years there's no doubt that this past year will go down as one of the strangest of our lifetimes. It was so weird at times that many of the advanced [...]

By |2021-01-21T09:31:37-05:00January 21st, 2021|Football|6 Comments

Scholarship Update: Putting the Pieces Together

The scholarship numbers game is a lot more clear now than it was back during the wild football season played during the on-going pandemic. The Notre Dame roster has been sufficiently shaken up by off-season moves and now it's that time again for another update. These early calendar winter scholarship posts are always broken up [...]

By |2021-01-19T21:40:46-05:00January 19th, 2021|Recruiting|34 Comments

Find the Sniper: An Introduction to the Marcus Freeman Defense

In what should be one of the top national stories of the off-season, Notre Dame swatted away Louisiana State for the services of rising superstar defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman. The Huber Heights, Ohio native who was once a blue-chip recruit and very good player at Ohio State has risen steadily over his first 10 years [...]

By |2021-01-14T13:36:56-05:00January 13th, 2021|Football|20 Comments

The Notre Dame Off-Season Project: 6 Roster Areas of Concern

Check out part 1 of this Notre Dame Off-Season Project where we went big picture with some deep thoughts on Notre Dame's ceiling, recruiting efforts, and Brian Kelly's role in making sure the Irish take the next step as a program. For today, we will drill down to some roster issues and look more at [...]

By |2021-01-11T11:49:29-05:00January 11th, 2021|Football|87 Comments

The Notre Dame Off-Season Project, Part 1: The Program Assessment

Notre Dame is heading into an important off-season coming off a Rose Bowl loss and yet another season without a major trophy to add to the Gug. As Brian Kelly begins preparations for his 12th year with the program, the Irish stand at a bit of a crossroads. Four years after the Kelly 2.0 rebuild [...]

By |2021-01-05T11:44:50-05:00January 5th, 2021|Football|157 Comments

Graduate Transfer Quarterback Jack Coan Commits to Notre Dame

Well, that didn't take long. Late Monday night, the Fighting Irish received the commitment from graduate transfer quarterback Jack Coan in an effort to strengthen the roster ahead of a 2021 rebuild without Ian Book. A former Notre Dame lacrosse commit, Coan later blew up as a quarterback coming out of Sayville, New York, and [...]

By |2021-01-04T22:21:02-05:00January 4th, 2021|Football|60 Comments
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