The 2022 Notre Dame mens' lacrosse season is nearly here! The boys are on campus and practicing, with their first scrimmage scheduled for this Saturday evening against their traditional opening scrimmage rival, Air Force. As we prepare for the season, we'll begin with a preview of an area of recent success for the Irish: graduate [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. Top News Congratulations to the Georgia Bulldogs on winning the 2021 National Championship. I took the Caesar's Sportsbook free $300 bet for registering now that sports gambling is legal in New York and put it all on Alabama. The Tide lost wide receiver Jameson [...]
Confession time; when I was growing up I was immensely more into college basketball than college football. That allure almost certainly came from March Madness and monitoring those games during the day when I went to school (if I did go to school that day). However, I was always a football fan deep down. Between [...]
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 [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. This off-season I'm changing up our topics a little bit. Top News Head coaches all over the land are trying to scramble their bag men and LLC's to see if they can land rising sophomore quarterback Caleb Williams who announced he's entering the Transfer [...]
John Madden passed away on December 28th at the age of 85 leaving behind of the most memorable and lasting impacts on football in American history. Although he stopped coaching in the NFL (1978) before I was born, retired from the television booth well over 10 years ago, and hadn't been in the spotlight much [...]
If Notre Dame couldn't get this one, against this team, with the momentum they had coming in, then it's easy to self-flagellate and think the Irish are just never going to win one of these things. Notre Dame lost the Fiesta Bowl to Oklahoma State 37-35, not scoring the entire second half until it was [...]
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 [...]
The game was almost beside the point Saturday as Notre Dame dominated Stanford 45-14 to move into the clubhouse at 11-1 in a season that against all odds will end as very much part of the College Football Playoff story. Coach Brian Kelly abandoned any pretense of being gentlemanly at the end of the game, [...]
What more could you ask than a 55-0 beating of an overmatched foe on Senior Day to clinch Notre Dame's 5th straight 10-win season? The Irish completely took over the game on Jack Kiser's pick-six to make it 10-0, and from there the only drama was how much action the senior reserves would get. Georgia [...]
Notre Dame did what you're supposed to do to a team missing its best player Saturday, pounding Virginia 28-3 on the road. Much of the game was perfunctory due to how hopeless the Cavaliers looked offensively, which was certainly because of the absence of Brennan Armstrong, out with a rib injury. However, it's worth crediting [...]
If you’re a long-time reader of this blog - especially if you go back to when we were on the old site – you probably know I’m a fan of the triple option. I know this is anathema to most Notre Dame fans, but it’s always been my little quirk. It’s a simple offense so [...]
Welcome back to the latest edition of America's favorite question and answer segment from 18 Stripes. Today, we'll tackle the sudden coaching vacancy at TCU, the Heisman race, how the initial playoff rankings will be handled, plus a look at a pair of forlorn head coaches at major programs. 1) The Heisman race is heating [...]
Another week, another effective performance against a flawed but offensively formidable opponent. This time though, the Irish offense was efficient enough that the advanced stats view the game much more positively. An advantage in yards per play, success rate, and points per scoring opportunity led to a solid bump from both SP+ and FPI, right [...]
It was a very quick first half and a bit of a slow start for both Notre Dame and North Carolina on Saturday evening in South Bend before the offenses finally started piling up the points later in the game. That, and both defenses struggled mightily to contain their opponents. The over/under was 62.5 and [...]
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