In this line of work you tend to spend a lot of time looking at college football rosters. If I'm not on 18 Stripes or cfbstats.com I'm burning a lot of bandwidth on team roster pages. A few quick thoughts on college rosters pages in general: *Some colleges maintain tremendous pages and much love to [...]
Spring practice is just around the corner for Notre Dame football as they officially make preparations for the 2019 season to come a long 6 months away. It's a fairly settled situation for the Irish offense as they return most starters and set about establishing a pecking order for spring, and maybe, discover some new [...]
The recruiting cycle for 2020 is here and it still feels weird to type out that year. It's amazing to witness this being Brian Kelly's 11th recruiting class at Notre Dame, or really his 10th full recruiting class after being hired late in the 2010 cycle. In the Roster Management Era™ the Fighting Irish also [...]
Alabama was knocked off its perch in the 2018 recruiting world and in this past January's title game. The Tide got right back up for the 2019 recruiting cycle and dominated (save one program) the rest of the country once again. Yes, the more things change the more they stay the same. That includes the [...]
Wednesday, February 6th opens up the second National Signing Day for the 2019 recruiting class and for all intents and purposes will bring the current cycle to a quick finish as Notre Dame waits to add one more player to a class that has already signed back in December during the early signing period. In [...]
Every year the Notre Dame roster will provide us a bunch of positive surprises and 2019 will be no different. A while back our writers were discussing the annual Top 25 Irish players list that we vote on with other members of the internet community and how a few players came out of nowhere and [...]
Today marks the first of a series of articles dedicated to seasons from the past. We'll be working in the time frame stretching back to the 80's but nothing more recent than within the last 15 years or so. Basically, the modern game but nothing from the High Definition era. We want to deal with [...]
Nearly everyone saw regression coming along the Notre Dame offensive line in 2018. The Irish lost a pair of 1st round NFL picks and even with blue-chippers ready to take over it was bound to be a difficult transition. Add in the Alex Bars season-ending injury in game 5, a new offensive line coach, and [...]
They say don't worry about the numbers, there will always be room. For Notre Dame recruit Marist Liufau it may turn out that there is in fact not enough room at the inn. Last week it was reported that the Fighting Irish have been planning to grayshirt the Honolulu linebacker for the 2019 football season, [...]
Barring more crazy movement the college football head coaching market is all dried up. When it's all said and done there will be 26 new head coaching positions for 2019, a turnover of a perfect 20% of the entire country. There remains one coach who was hired prior to 2000 (Iowa's Kirk Ferentz in 1999), [...]
The 2018 season was quietly one of the best in recent memory for college football uniforms. No, not because of Notre Dame's Yankee-inspired offering from the Syracuse game which we can confirm caused Under Armour stock to plunge 4%* for being so absurd. Sure, we're still in the throes of Black for Black's Sake, random [...]
Compare the first Reviewing the Redshirts post on the offense from last week with today's look at the defense and Notre Dame essentially saved eligibility on an entire recruiting class heading into 2019. While there were 13 players who took a redshirt on offense and just 7 featured today on defense one could argue there [...]
There have been seasons when we've had fewer than 10 players featured in our Reviewing the Redshirts off-season series. Today, we will cover 13 players alone just on the offensive side of the ball. There's a little bit of everything here including, elite recruits, under the radar players, and some with much to prove early [...]
To me, Rocket Ismail is the embodiment of Notre Dame football. I was a bit too young to live through the Tim Brown era--and while I have vague memories of the 1988 National Championship--it had already been placed in my brain that winning was normal for the Fighting Irish. To be expected, right? Tuesday, January [...]
As the calendar has turned to 2019 and Notre Dame's season came to a grinding halt in Arlington we are looking ahead to the new football season. Ever forward. Since we're still awaiting news from several players and their decisions to return to South Bend this is basically an early version of the early 2019 [...]
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