Film Room: Elko Brings a New Twist to a Familiar Scheme

Over the holiday season, I took on a little project. I decided I would take a look at the scheme incoming Notre Dame defensive coordinator Mike Elko employs. I charted 111 defensive plays from games against Clemson, FSU and Temple. Through this I was able to get a good sense of how Elko coordinates a [...]

By |2018-05-09T22:26:38-04:00January 3rd, 2017|18S Reads, Film Room|40 Comments

Notre Dame Basketball Versus Height: Examining a Common Narrative

Heading into tomorrow's Crossroads Classic match-up against Purdue, one of the prevailing pre-game questions has been one that is fairly familiar to Irish squads of the past couple of years: how can they handle a team with incredible length? It is no secret that Notre Dame's calling card for the past few years has been their devastating [...]

By |2018-05-09T22:26:39-04:00December 16th, 2016|18S Reads, Basketball|2 Comments

Irish Cough Up a Heartbreaker to Villanova 66-74

Great fight to the final minute. We are just getting started. pic.twitter.com/JOZQ69solW — Notre Dame MBB (@NDmbb) December 10, 2016 There are no ties in basketball, and there isn’t a column in the standings for moral victories. The University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish now stand at 9-1 on the 2017 season after falling 66-74 [...]

By |2018-05-09T22:26:40-04:00December 10th, 2016|18S Reads|10 Comments

Irish Echoes ’16: 2017 Class Reunion

This weekend, Notre Dame will host ‘The Echoes’ awards banquet. In addition to some top uncommitted prospects being in town, a large chunk of Notre Dame’s committed class will be in attendance. This event serves as a popular weekend for post-regular season official visits. It should serve as a fun, yet pivotal couple days for Notre [...]

By |2016-12-09T01:53:37-05:00December 9th, 2016|18S Reads, Recruiting|5 Comments

Big Board: Offense – Irish Offer Colorado WR Commit

Welcome back to the 18 Stripes Big Board for Fighting Irish football, everybody. Now that this football season is over for Notre Dame, the staff will be hitting the recruiting trail hard trying to close this class out strong. Hopefully, we'll have a lot of good news to share with you guys over the next [...]

By |2018-05-09T22:26:41-04:00December 4th, 2016|18S Reads, Recruiting|5 Comments

Oh Look, It Happened Again: Va Tech Instant Reaction

WatchND highlights: Up early against [OPPONENT] after a fast start, Notre Dame couldn't keep it up and played a poor second half against the [OPPONENT NICKNAME], resulting in a disheartening loss that sent their record to [INSERT RECORD HERE]... Oh, never mind. That was my draft that I have lined up from pretty much every [...]

By |2018-05-09T22:26:47-04:00November 19th, 2016|18S Reads|30 Comments

Film Room: Iso Cam – Kizer Throwing Motion

DeShone Kizer has been a bit of an enigma this year. At times, he has looked like a sure fire first round NFL draft pick, big, strong, athletic, confident, decisive, accurate. Other times he has been inconsistent, indecisive and struggled with accuracy. The ups and downs in his play are due to a variety of [...]

By |2018-05-09T22:26:47-04:00November 16th, 2016|18S Reads, Film Room|20 Comments

Film Room: Army Triple Option Preview

Game one of the service academy doubleheader is in the books and it wasn’t pretty.  The Irish will look for redemption on Saturday in the Shamrock Series game against Army. Last week we went through the basics of Navy’s triple option offense.  At a high level, both Navy and Army run very similar offenses.  Navy [...]

By |2018-05-09T22:26:48-04:00November 9th, 2016|18S Reads, Film Room|3 Comments

Notre Dame Basketball Opens Exhibition Play

Welcome to exhibition basketball, where the scores are made up and points don’t matter. Mike Brey and his Notre Dame Fighting Irish squad opened the season with an exhibition versus D2 Mercy College Tuesday evening. The Mavericks were run out of the gym by Notre Dame, who piled up the 119-58 victory. Mercy sports a [...]

By |2018-05-09T22:26:50-04:00November 2nd, 2016|18S Reads, Basketball|10 Comments

How to Lose a Game: NC State Instant Reaction

How to lose a football game in which your opponent repeatedly gives you chances to win it: - Pass the ball more than you run it, even when the conditions dictate you shouldn't. (ND had 26 official pass attempts and 38 rush attempts, but at least 5 of those 'rushes' were sacks and a few [...]

By |2018-05-09T22:26:54-04:00October 8th, 2016|18S Reads|54 Comments

How The Irish Stack Up in Defensive Line Recruiting

If you follow Notre Dame football closely, or even too closely, just like we do, you're probably aware that the Irish have always struggled with defensive line recruiting, especially with landing elite talent on the line. Since 2000, only two 247 Composite five-star defensive linemen have donned an Irish jersey*: Victor Abiamiri (#29 overall/0.9861 rating) and [...]

By |2018-05-09T22:26:54-04:00October 6th, 2016|18S Reads|15 Comments

Film Room: Notre Dame Defense Adjusts

After the first four games of the 2016 football season, the Notre Dame defense could rightfully be described as a raging tire fire. As a result of the horrific performance of the defense, Brian Kelly decided to make a change and fired defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder. After watching the defense play against Syracuse, I’m comfortable upgrading their [...]

By |2018-05-09T22:26:58-04:00October 6th, 2016|18S Reads, Film Room|44 Comments
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