Notre Dame fans are well aware of the ill-timed contract extension for head football coaches. Dave Doeren went from 3-9 to 8-5 in his second season and was awarded with a $400,000 raise and 2-year extension. Since then, the Wolfpack have gone 14-13 and more importantly really struggled to make an impact in the ACC. [...]
George Takacs became the 12th Notre Dame commit of the 2018 cycle when he announced for the Irish today. The 6'7", 236-pound Florida standout opened a lot of eyes at the Nike Opening Regional in Miami recently; he impressed both attached and in the passing game, and in the process earned an invite to the finals in Oregon [...]
Today brings us to our 10th Notre Dame football uniform concept and it began with a simple question: Why aren't there more logos featuring a football? I had something in mind for the Irish but first let's take a look at how odd this lack of footballs used by football teams is in the United [...]
USC started 1-2 last year in embarrassing fashion with just 16 combined points against Alabama and Stanford. The Trojans switched to quarterback Sam Darnold (former 5-star Max Browne was benched and is now with Pitt following a grad transfer) in week 4 and still lost to Utah, although the offense scored 27 points and showed [...]
Late last week I was leaving work when one of the more surprising stories broke in recent college football memory. Seemingly out of nowhere Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops was retiring. Like many, I was stunned. Stoops was a pretty interesting cat on the scene, neither ultra hateable or likeable. He was perfectly vanilla. For [...]
In most football offseasons, we might see a single player head to South Bend as a Notre Dame transfer. Someone like Cody Riggs, or Avery Sebastian - a grad transfer with a single year left and something to prove. This offseason the Irish have proven much more active in the transfer market than at any [...]
Today we publish our 9th Notre Dame football uniform concept and the second of a handful of Black for Black's Sake designs from our collection. Our first effort explained some of the challenges surrounding using black with the Fighting Irish colors in addition to some of the modern bells and whistles usually seen on black [...]
We are approaching the half-year anniversary of a group of fans and alumni publishing two memorable advertisements in The Observer, Notre Dame’s student-run newspaper. When they were released we laughed, we cried, and we laughed some more. Today, we are going to look back at the wild times that provided the world with one of [...]
Ja'mion Franklin became the 12th Notre Dame commit of the 2018 cycle when he announced for the Irish at his school today; the 6'3", 306-pound Maryland bull originally planned to announce in July, but after he earned an invite to the Opening Finals he decided to move his announcement up. Despite a lack of love for [...]
Larry Fedora has built things up at North Carolina to unprecedented success for their program in modern times. Their 19 wins over the past 2 seasons is the most since the Tar Heels went 21-3 from 1996-97. Additionally, their two-year S&P+ rankings of 28 and 21 convey a program built on a solid foundation. This [...]
On October 8, 2016 things were looking pretty bleak for Chuck Martin. His Miami RedHawks had just been soundly defeated 35-13 on the road to an Akron team that would be obliterated 41-0 the following week by eventual MAC champion Western Michigan. This loss was the 6th straight defeat to begin the season and dropped [...]
In 2009, the University of Texas officially passed the University of Notre Dame for the most valuable college football program according to Forbes business magazine. In recent years, the Wall Street Journal has been doing their own valuation and coming up with the same results--Texas has a comfortable lead as the No. 1 most valuable [...]
Today we travel back to the magical 2012 regular season and yes it will always sting to have to preface this sentence with a disclaimer due to the post-season outcome. Yet, 2012 was real, so real. Dare I say this was the golden age of Fighting Irish Media? I know I'm not the only one [...]
Michigan State didn't fall off a cliff last year they flew off it on fire with exploding fire works inside the car as the problems have continued right through the spring and into the summer. The Spartans are coming off a 3-9 season which is their most losses since 1982 and a bunch of off-field [...]
Realistically, how much can Notre Dame football improve this season? Here's the Cliff Notes answer: We don't know. Ha! No, but seriously, there's no definitive way to answer the question. If every coach and every starter from 2016 returned for this season, there would still be far too many variables in the 2017 equation to make [...]
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