Anyone stupid enough to get sucked in to anything after the Marshall game (I include myself among this group) probably deserved to see what they saw today. Any prayer of this being a remotely successful season went up in smoke Saturday as Notre Dame lost a pathetic 16-14 game to a Stanford team that hadn't [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Marcus Freeman announced that 5th-year senior linebacker Bo Bauer will be out for the rest of the season following a knee injury suffered earlier this week. Notre Dame corner Tariq Bracy is questionable this weekend against Stanford with a grade 1 hamstring [...]
If the Marshall loss was a bellwether of potential imminent disaster for the Marcus Freeman era, there were a lot of signs in Saturday's 28-20 win over BYU that things are, as the great Lou Brown said, "startin' to come together". It wasn't perfect, but especially in the 22-0 scoring run that briefly gave ND [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Wisconsin has fired head coach Paul Chryst and will pay him a $11 million buyout. Defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard, long known to be the heir apparent for the Badgers, takes over on an interim basis. For now. Colorado fired Karl Dorrell with [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Georgia Tech head coach Geoff Collins and athletic director Todd Stansbury have both been fired. Offensive line coach Brent Key will step up as the interim head coach. Stanford leading rusher EJ Smith will be out for the season due to injury. [...]
If the 2022 season starts taking off in a good direction following next week's open date, we might look back at the second quarter of Saturday's 45-32 win over North Carolina as a turning point. The Irish were plodding along through the first quarter, again largely unable to move the ball even against North Carolina's [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Herm Edwards has been fired at Arizona State. In just over 4 seasons he was 26-20 with the Sun Devils. With a NCAA investigation still pending, ASU has turned to running backs coach Shaun Aguano as the interim head coach. Sports Illustrated [...]
You could see it on Marcus Freeman's face when JD Bertrand was called for the world's most obvious targeting foul on the final drive, and you could see it again when Cal came within a whisker of catching the Hail Mary on the final play. "This couldn't just be easy, could it?" It could not. [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News The latest playoff talks have been surrounding ironing out a new scheduling format with the 12-team tournament. Picking up steam is starting the season in week 0 (will we see week -1 games too?) and shuffling around playoff games in the winter [...]
You have to give it to Marcus Freeman. I can't remember the last time a college football coach flushed so much goodwill down the toilet so quickly. Notre Dame lost to Marshall 26-21. In his first game against an unranked team as coach, Freeman ended an Irish winning streak of 42 games against such teams, [...]
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! […]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News The College Football Playoff will be expanding to 12 teams but most do not expect it to happen before the current contract runs out after the 2025 season. The new media deal for the future 12-team College Football Playoff is expected to [...]
Like a grizzly bear on a moose carcass, the first game of the 2022 Notre Dame football season was a study in contrast.* At times the Irish played like a team ready to compete with the best in college football and at other times they looked outmatched. The first offensive play for Notre Dame was [...]
These things are a lot easier to write after wins, but here goes. Notre Dame lost to Ohio State 21-10 tonight, sending Marcus Freeman to 0-2 and creating the easiest wisecrack in the history of Twitter about the much-discussed and hyped new Notre Dame coach. It's funny how pregame narratives can be so wrong. What [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Notre Dame has named their football captains for the 2022 season. They are Avery Davis, Bo Bauer, Jarett Patterson, Isaiah Foskey, JD Bertrand, and Michael Mayer. Marcus Freeman has mentioned in a recent press conference that he prefers to defer at the [...]
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