It's Senior Day! The ur-generic ACC villain invades Notre Dame Stadium. Let's unpack the basics of this 3:30 p.m. (EDT) NBC tilt: The Hoos come in a game above .500 thanks to a 24-19 win over fast-sinking Pitt. They played Louisville tough, backdoor-charged Clemson (down 38-10, ended up losing 48-31), and got smoked by [...]
Oxford of the West. Abercrombie University. Big Bentown. Cradle of Coaches. Mother of Fraternities. By all these names (and more) is Saturday’s opponent known. […]
Hopefully this is proven out to be in the Catholic “A broken world from which Grace is the redemption” and not “The return window has already closed so you’re SOL.” At any rate, I’m going to knock out one framing piece before the workday picks up here and hopefully go through a similar exercise for [...]
PROLOGUE Here are some interesting stats . . . […]
A short look at some bad business […]
Marcus Freeman may very well benefit from an explosive, difficult to defend offense in his second turn at the helm. By keeping it in the family and tabbing Gerad Parker as OC, Coach Freeman may have found the perfect driver for a neon-colored, nitrous-boosted, titanium reinforced 2023 ND Offense, […]
KEY TO THE GAME Let’s talk about where my man Drew Pyne is right now. Here’s his first 3rd Down pass from the Syracuse game. Give it a watch or two. What happens? Pyne locks onto Mayer from the jump. If he were reading the field he’d see the LBs both suck up on the [...]
The answer? 45. The question: How many more undergraduates does Marshall University have than Notre Dame? So we begin our incredible journey through the similarities and differences that comprise this Saturday’s gridiron matchup! […]
This post is about the 2022 offense. Specifically, about how it’s time to get aggressive. At a high level, let’s look at the challenges and opportunities our brave Leprechauns face on the glorious side of the ball: Challenges We have a young quarterback who has a lot of talent but will need to play over [...]
A low bar, but we've notched the greatest Saturday of the Freeman Era and it's not even lunchtime. Two big decisions dropped in favor of ND this morning. Northwestern safety Brandon Joseph, a 2020 Consensus All-American, announced he'd be enrolling at ND as a graduate transfer. Holy terror edge rusher (and sometimes quizzical middle-linebacker) Isaiah [...]
Like many of you I felt an unease as Michigan put together a decent season. Used to seeing Harbaugh's teams sulk and give up every time the slightest adversity presented itself in a road game, I figured Wisconsin would smash them, they didn't. Like clockwork, they dropped a winnable game at MSU, which I figured [...]
There are coaching losses and there are coaching losses. For this game, the plan was fine (good, even - had one of those inside runs broken maybe it all would feel different), the placalling was fine. Turnovers, if you (as you should) count Cincy's missed field goals as turnovers, ended up even. But. ND set [...]
This is not a rating of the power of different teams issued in the preseason. Rather, this is a Power Rating of Preseasons. Notre Dame preseasons, in fact. The ground rules: “Preseason” does not mean “Offseason.” It refers, specifically, to the August anticipatory period between practice beginning and the kick-off of the season. There are three factors that determine [...]
This is not a rating of the power of different teams issued in the preseason. Rather, this is a Power Rating of Preseasons. Notre Dame preseasons, in fact. The ground rules: "Preseason" does not mean "Offseason." It refers, specifically, to the August anticipatory period between practice beginning and the kick-off of the season. There are three [...]
Part 1 (of X) in a series memorializing high days of unintentional comedy within the collective canon of ND Fandom: Notre Dame can be a bit much. Lou Holtz once famously said "[For] those who know Notre Dame, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, no explanation will suffice." Leaving aside the [...]
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