Tuesday, July 11th was supposed to be one of the best days of the year. The EA Sports annual release date for the NCAA Football video game passed again without filling stores and households across the country. It's now been 4 straight seasons without the game, and worse still, Denard Robinson remains the last athlete [...]
Some people don't like the all-white look and those people are weirdos. Our first concept "Golden Dome Icy White" kicked off this series with an all-white uniform that is among my favorites to date. Today, we return to a dominant white concept with a familiar twist. Back in 2012 the Irish opened the season in [...]
There are plenty of things that bug me about college football. There are a lot of things that bug me about Notre Dame football. The 'how to improve college football' articles have been numerous and wide ranging in recent years, especially since the playoff and conference realignment shifted the landscape. Almost two months ago SB [...]
We are opening up the YouTube vault today for what is and what surely should remain the shortest video in our series history. It's late August of 2002 and the opening of a new era, the Tyrone Willingham era. This season in a vacuum is just...man...where do you even start? How about the old Kickoff [...]
Our long national nightmare of a college football blackout is nearly over, just one short month until fall camps open everywhere across America. For Irish fans we've endured a pretty quiet off-season (no jinx) and one bereft of major storylines circling South Bend. Unless, you count Tim Brando telling the world Notre Dame will join [...]
Yesterday's announcement of a home-and-home with Arkansas and its accompanying note that 2020 will be the first time the Irish and Razorbacks meet got us thinking: Who has Notre Dame football never played in its illustrious, 130-year history? We dove into the annals (annals - get your mind out of the gutter, man) to look at [...]
Today we unveil our 14th overall Notre Dame football uniform concept and our 3rd effort dressing the Irish in black. When we started to put together concepts for this series an evenly divided shamrock was the very first logo I began toying with. After a few demos I put that to the side for a bit. [...]
Times change and people get older, it's a fact of life. At one point this blog had a pretty young cast of writers although that's not really the case anymore. I wouldn't classify myself as getting cranky as I get older, although many feel that way about themselves all the time while growing increasingly cranky! [...]
Today marks the 13th Notre Dame uniform concept we've created this off-season. When coming up with ideas we'll sometimes look across many different sports or simply try to create something as original as possible. Other times, we'll take a glance at the other Irish sports to see if there's something that catches our eye. Some [...]
The game last year between Navy and Notre Dame featured 120 snaps. One hundred and twenty snaps total for a college football game. The Irish infamously settled for a field goal in the 4th quarter with 7:28 left in the game while trailing by one believing they'd get the ball back again. They never got [...]
I’ve always given Dan Wetzel a lot of credit. Ever since I left childhood behind there was this thought inside me that sneered at bowl games and welcomed a new college football post-season format. When I read Wetzel’s “Death to the BCS” years later in 2010 I was completely sold. Even then, the push back [...]
Using the S&P+ rankings the Miami Hurricanes were the second best team Notre Dame played last year. Even though the Irish went 4-8 they were able to beat the 'Canes in South Bend. Now, the Irish will play at Miami's home stadium for the first time since the infamous 1989 game. It'll also be the [...]
We could lay it on thick with a bunch of corporate speak with this uniform. Something about the shade of blue corresponding to a piece of history found on campus. Something about the fabric being revolutionary. Remember with the 2014 Shamrock Series jersey they put the tiled mosaic on the Main Building floor up on [...]
Today's concept started with a pair of ideas. The first was taking some inspiration from South Carolina basketball's Under Armour shorts following their run to the Final Four this spring. From there I wanted to try something futuristic on a Notre Dame uniform. Full disclosure, we've kicked around several ideas on futuristic uniforms and it's [...]
Notre Dame is becoming very familiar with Wake Forest in the Brian Kelly era. This fall we will see the Irish take on the Demon Deacons for the 4th time since 2011. Notre Dame is undefeated so far in the series so we've got that going for us, which is nice. Wake Forest 2016 Record: [...]
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