Ten years ago this week, Jack Swarbrick made one of the most consequential decisions in Notre Dame football history in hiring the 29th head coach of the Fighting Irish. This installment is no longer Charlie Weis' Last Stand, but instead the first glimpse at Brian Kelly. Previous Entries Preseason Nevada Michigan Michigan State Purdue Washington [...]
Another year, another 10-win season. There's a sentence that Notre Dame fans aren't used to seeing. The Irish capped off a 10-2 regular season Saturday with a 45-24 win over Stanford that ended the way you want all ND games to end - with the biggest drama being whether the Irish give up too many [...]
At the beginning of the season, most people agreed with Bill Connelly's preview of Notre Dame's schedule. His SP+ forecasts suggested that our three toughest games were, in order of difficulty: Georgia, Michigan, and Stanford. He called for losses in the first two and 6 point win against Stanford. It sucks that he was correct [...]
When this series began, a top-25 Notre Dame under Charlie Weis walloped Nevada to begin a hopeful 2009 season. Three months later, the Irish staggered into Palo Alto after three straight losses hoping to send their doomed coach out with a victory against a growing nemesis in the West. Previous Entries Preseason Nevada Michigan Michigan [...]
We're just about at the finish line for the regular season, and man, it's been a weird one. I think the epitaph of this season is going to be one of unrealized potential; we all knew this wasn't going to be a playoff team - not with what it lost on both sides of the [...]
Last week, the Irish lost to #12 Pitt at Heinz Field and Charlie Weis' fate was effectively sealed. As this series winds down, we'll take a look at the last home game of the Weis Era against UConn. Previous Entries Preseason Nevada Michigan Michigan State Purdue Washington USC Boston College Washington State Navy Pitt One [...]
In the previous installment of this series, Notre Dame unloaded an automatic rifle into both of its feet in losing to Navy at home. This week, the Irish were faced with a must-win game at #12 Pitt. Previous Entries Preseason Nevada Michigan Michigan State Purdue Washington USC Boston College Washington State Navy Do or Die [...]
When Charlie Weis became Notre Dame head coach in late-2004, he hired David Cutcliffe as his first offensive coordinator. Cutcliffe had just been fired by Ole Miss after his only losing season in Oxford, a mistake the Rebels would come to regret. However, Cutcliffe suffered a heart attack just before fall camp in 2005 and [...]
The title says it all, doesn't it? Ten years ago this week, Notre Dame suffered a catastrophic loss at home to Navy. It marked the true beginning of the end for the Weis era. Previous Entries Preseason Nevada Michigan Michigan State Purdue Washington USC Boston College Washington State It Can't Happen Twice, Can it? On [...]
Phew. The narrowest of escapes against Virginia Tech kept a 10-2 regular season on the table, but as you might imagine, it didn't do much to appease the advanced metrics gods. One little oddity that came out of the game - Bill Connelly noted that Notre Dame had a 99% post-game win expectancy. That means [...]
Last week, the Irish were lucky to escape at home against Boston College in their first victory over the Eagles since 2000. The Irish went on the road to play moribund Washington State the following week, but not in Pullman. Instead, this week marked the first ever Shamrock Series game, and the final victory of [...]
In case you missed it, the Fighting Irish golf team is off to its best start ever. The previous post covered the team's history, players, and coach. This one will give you a introduction to college golf and cover the team's record breaking fall season. How Does College Golf Work? In case this is your [...]
Womp womp. I don't have much of an appetite for witty comments this week - Notre Dame was beaten, and beaten soundly, in every phase of the game in Ann Arbor. Sure, many saw a loss as likely - like SP+, for example - but nobody had any clue that something like that was waiting, [...]
Last week in this series, the Irish fell three yards short of potentially taking down 6th-ranked USC. It was Notre Dame's eighth straight loss to the Trojans, but this week Weis would get a chance to end a six-game skid to Boston College. The Unholy Decade I mentioned in the 2009 Michigan State recap that [...]
A Notre Dame team consisting of experienced upperclassmen along and a dynamic freshman started the season with just one loss and a top-10 ranking. Of course, this describes Tony Jones, Khalid Kareem, Kyle Hamilton, and the Fighting Irish football team, but it also works for the <check notes> men's golf team? In a surprise to [...]
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