The Weekly Rambler: Playoff Expansion on the Horizon (Again)

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 The Broyles Award was created for the 1996 season to honor the best assistant coach in the country as selected by a small committee of retired college football coaches, media, and broadcasters. That inaugural season long-time Florida State defensive coordinator [...]

By |2025-02-20T17:37:46-05:00February 21st, 2025|18S Reads|9 Comments

Lacrosse: Season opens with massive wins over Cleveland State and Marquette

Our #1 ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish (2-0) got their season started this past week with dominant wins over Cleveland State (24-6) and Marquette (22-9). Great way to start the season and begin the chase for three national championships in a row! Things appeared to go largely according to plan for the Irish, so we [...]

By |2025-02-18T09:20:33-05:00February 18th, 2025|18S Reads, Lacrosse|0 Comments

2025 Irish Recruiting Review: Offensive Tackle

We are working our way through Notre Dame’s 2025 recruiting class composed of 24 signees from all over the United States. Today we’re taking a look at the top player in the class and another excellent addition to the offensive line room. Offensive Tackle Will Black Bio: Hailing from London, Ontario halfway between Toronto and [...]

By |2025-02-13T18:27:50-05:00February 17th, 2025|18S Reads|4 Comments

The Weekly Rambler: Coming Off the Unemployment Line

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 We'll start the week's top news with Notre Dame moving quickly to replace Deland McCullough who departed for the Las Vegas Raiders. Reports have the Irish close to a deal with Penn State's Ja'Juan (pronounced like Juwan) Seider. The soon-to-be [...]

By |2025-02-14T07:14:28-05:00February 14th, 2025|18S Reads|14 Comments

Lacrosse: It’s go time! Irish to start their season

The start of the season is finally here!  Our #1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's lacrosse team begins its 2025 championship campaign with a pair of games indoors at Loftus. First up, on Wednesday the Cleveland State Vikings (0-1) visit South Bend for a 6:00 pm tilt, followed by the Marquette Golden Eagles (1-1) on [...]

By |2025-02-11T23:46:53-05:00February 12th, 2025|18S Reads, Lacrosse|0 Comments

Lacrosse: Introducing All-American Ben Ramsey, Bagpiper

College lacrosse has a wonderful history of traditions. In recent years, the one that has come to be most associated with the spirit of men's college lacrosse it that of the Notre Dame player-bagpiper. This year the tradition continues with a new wrinkle, but let us first recount the story of the bagpiper and speak [...]

By |2025-02-07T20:30:10-05:00February 8th, 2025|18S Reads, Lacrosse|1 Comment

The Weekly Rambler: Don’t Be the Weird Coach

Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Our first news story this week takes us to the lovely land of Jacksonville where the Jaguars are currently going through a coaching transition following the failed Doug Pederson era that flew off the train tracks in 2024 with a [...]

By |2025-02-06T18:33:59-05:00February 7th, 2025|18S Reads|7 Comments

Lacrosse: Irish prep to defend their championship

As we approach the beginning of another season with our #1 ranked Fighting Irish, the boys are looking better than ever. As has been their custom for many years, they prepared with a pair of scrimmages at Loftus Sports Center. These scrimmages are now in the books, with dominant wins over Detroit Mercy (29-6) and [...]

By |2025-02-07T17:06:12-05:00February 2nd, 2025|18S Reads, Lacrosse|0 Comments

Ran Out of Gas: National Championship Game Instant Reaction

Sometimes football isn't complicated. Sometimes the other team just has more dudes than you and you can't beat them. That's pretty much what happened Monday night as Ohio State ended a dream Notre Dame run with a 34-23 title game win that was not as close as that, but was painfully close to maybe being [...]

By |2025-01-21T00:23:07-05:00January 21st, 2025|18S Reads, Football|24 Comments

I Want This for Him, and I Want it for Them

As we approach next Monday's national championship game pitting our beloved Notre Dame against Ohio State, there's one thing that needs to be made plain. While us ND fans want this championship badly - and I'd argue of the fan bases that at least nominally have reason to expect to compete for titles, no fan [...]

By |2025-01-15T21:47:53-05:00January 16th, 2025|18S Reads, Football|6 Comments

This Irish Team is Elite, Remarkable, and Totally Badass

*Note: this was written before Eric posted his own long-term perspective (which you should check out here) so there will be some overlapping thoughts. So this is what we were promised when we became fans of Notre Dame football. If you're like me, we grew up on stories about the Notre Dame Magic™ and what [...]

By |2025-01-14T12:48:15-05:00January 14th, 2025|18S Reads, Football|13 Comments

Pure Magic: Orange Bowl Instant Reaction

My first thought after Drew Allar winged the ball out of bounds to secure a 27-24 Notre Dame victory over Penn State, the second New Year's 6 win for Marcus Freeman in a week, was pretty simple: How did that happen? TEAM GLORY ☘️ ORANGE BOWL CHAMPIONS #GoIrish pic.twitter.com/CbqnL8fYTG — Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) January [...]

By |2025-01-10T00:34:48-05:00January 10th, 2025|18S Reads, Basketball, Film Room, Football, Lacrosse, Recruiting|15 Comments

The Sweetest Victory: Sugar Bowl Instant Reaction

First, let's get this out of the way now: I cried. Thirty-one years. Thirty-one long years of not winning these games. Of coming up short. Of drawing the best possible opponent. Of chuckleheads on the Internet pretending losing games meant they shouldn't have been in them. It all got swept away in less than one [...]

By |2025-01-02T20:36:02-05:00January 2nd, 2025|18S Reads, Basketball, Film Room, Football, Lacrosse, Recruiting|24 Comments

On to the Next One: College Football Playoff Round 1 Instant Reaction

All week, I couldn't shake the thought that Notre Dame was going to win comfortably over Indiana. (And they did. 27-17, final score, and it wasn't that close.) It's not the Hoosiers' fault. The idea some will probably start trumpeting that IU didn't belong in this playoff because their schedule was too weak was, in [...]

By |2024-12-21T02:32:02-05:00December 21st, 2024|18S Reads|8 Comments
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