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 [...]
It took a while to get this death star operational but here we are with the return of our beloved Five Wide Fullbacks. Wipe away your tears of joy and continue reading the internet’s best 5-question article. 1. Who is the real MVP of this map of the United States with each state's most Googled [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mike Brey likes to divide up his Fighting Irish basketball season into “segments.” If you listen to his comments to his team after their November 26th win over Chicago State, he asks them to finish this segment strong with a win over Iowa on Tuesday the 29th. Looking at the Irish schedule, he appears to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Press conference updates for Brian Kelly and other coaches are great grist for team reporters. When you're winning, everything is good. Your coach who storms out of a press conference or singles out a couple of players on a fateful play or tears apart a coordinator at the end of a blowout win is a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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