The 90th edition of the Notre Dame Blue-Gold Game takes place this Saturday (12:30 PM ET NBC Sports Network) as the Irish conclude what's been a very long spring practice schedule spanning back to March 2nd. The coverage has been extensive in recent weeks which doesn't leave a ton to discuss prior to a controlled [...]
Every quarterback can improve. Many quarterbacks in college have room to improve considerably. Fighting Irish quarterback Ian Book sent some shock waves throughout the college football world by playing at a high level immediately in his first extended action with Notre Dame. He was quite good, but still has room for improvement, especially after ending [...]
Saturday saw the Fighting Irish take part in their 12th practice of spring and the first for the media to view inside Notre Dame Stadium. The team will practice twice more this upcoming week before another edition of the Blue-Gold Game on April 13th. This Tuesday's workout will be open to the media, as well. [...]
By most recruiting analyst opinions the 2008 Notre Dame class was the most talented for the school in the period between the #1 class of 1995 and the most recent 2019 class. It was the class that firmly cemented Charlie Weis as an ace recruiter who could talk the talk. Over a period of nearly [...]
The judging of uniforms is back. I went through the Power 5 programs and noted a handful who desperately need a makeover. I originally had a list of 5 but decided to spare Mississippi State as they've made some solid improvements in recent years. The others here today, not so much. Write in the comments [...]
Notre Dame is half way through spring practice already with another workout coming Thursday and the 4th open practice arriving this Saturday over the past 9 days. It's this odd feeling of...too many practice reports? It's a weird thing to say but the amount of access so far this spring has been quite different. Normally, [...]
Spring football is in session which means there's no time to waste for 18S content. This past Friday we posted our first practice report since the Irish opened up a workout to the media following a long break from school. The team was right back at it again on Saturday with the media in attendance [...]
The Brian Kelly press conference to open spring practice began on March 1st. On Thursday morning the Irish were back on the field for their 5th practice of spring, the 2nd workout since coming back from break, and the first fully open practice to the media. Following a long wait, the team will now allow [...]
Clemson football has been cultivating a graveyard for decades and somehow I didn't learn this until a few days ago. I saw a story about it on social media and just assumed it was either fake or something put together for comedic effect. Then, I went back and looked it up and it's so very [...]
Notre Dame football recruiting always has a lot of talk about states, regions, a national profile, pipelines, and Catholic schools. Like perhaps no other school in history, the Fighting Irish have covered a vast swath of territory (now including Germany for 2020!) in order to fill their recruiting classes. Since Brian Kelly's 2010 class the [...]
In the first installment of College Football Season Throwback we went all the way back to the 1994 season and the dawning of a Nebraska dynasty. This next part fast forwards 4 years to the opening up of a new era of college football that would go on to completely transform the game all across [...]
While researching a recent article about Notre Dame's internet roster I noticed something that was impossible to ignore. Comparing the 2010 Fighting Irish roster versus the 2018 roster there appeared to be far fewer white players recently on campus. So, this sent me down a rabbit hole to bring you this content today. First, a [...]
I will be perfectly honest, I was prepared for Miles Boykin to run dead last among the wideouts in the 40-yard dash in this weekend's NFL Combine. Anything from 4.75 to 4.85 wouldn't have surprised me in the least bit. For the record, Texas receiver Lil'Jordan Humphrey finished last among the participants at his position [...]
Notre Dame opened up spring practice on Saturday late morning for a workout that lasted a little over 2 hours in the (soon-to-be old) indoor practice facility with the media able to watch the opening 45 minutes. Blessed are we that the Irish will have 7 more practices completely open to the media for the [...]
Earlier this week we previewed the Notre Dame offense ahead of the opening of spring practice. Today, we turn our attention to the Irish defense coming off an impressive No. 10 national finish in defensive S&P during Clark Lea's first season as coordinator. The young coach will face an important spring replacing several key veterans [...]
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