The Sgt. Slaughter meets Steve Ballmer person that is Boston College head coach Steve Addazio returns to Chestnut Hill for his 5th season but just barely. The Eagles won the Quick Lane Bowl against Maryland to give Addazio a key 7th victory and winning record. They even scored 30+ points against a Power 5 team [...]
This is our 8th uniform concept this off-season and this is my least favorite that has been published so far. I must stress so far. There is a particular futuristic uniform that is coming up that I kind of loathe. But, since we finished it off we'll put it out their for criticism all the [...]
It's year two of the Kirby Smart era in Athens and the Georgia Bulldogs are in a weird place. They've gone 4 straight years without a divisional title in a really weak era of the SEC East and they've only had 1 really great season out of their past 8 campaigns. Still, as always the [...]
One of the things our writers discussed as I was putting together the 2010-16 run success rate for the Notre Dame running backs was what constituted success for other programs? How do we compare? What's considered average? What's considered top of the line? It was a good question and one that I felt needed to [...]
Raise your hand if you’ve read an article this offseason citing a team’s points per game, yards per game, or NCAA ranks using those measures. The vast majority of reviews and previews, right? This is all kinds of bad, and needs to change. Do not accept these numbers at face value. Take those rankings using [...]
It's an understatement to say that Notre Dame faces white hot pressure straight out of the gate this fall. The Irish had a pretty quiet spring which is almost always a good sign and today we'll start winding our way through the 2017 opponents and their updates this off-season. First up is a program in [...]
No positional group escaped harsh criticism from the 4-8 garbage of a season Notre Dame put together in 2016. The run game in particular was accused of taking a hefty step back from the preceding year when the Prosise/Adams/Kizer trio burst on to the scene for an exciting season on the ground. However, there's a [...]
If you're like me the 2011 "Under the Lights" throwback uniforms worn on the road at night versus Michigan are among the best uniforms in Notre Dame history. In fact, I would argue they may be the greatest uniforms the Irish have ever worn. Over the years I've read a lot of clamoring for a [...]
In this most recent NFL draft, we saw the Cleveland Browns use a second round pick on 2014 signee Deshone Kizer, who was roughly a top 250 recruit. Compared to other Notre Dame draft picks over the last decade, Kizer did pretty well for himself - top 250 players don't have a great hit rate in the draft. [...]
The 2015 season brought three new major runners to the field and in some ways none of them were expected to have major roles. C.J. Prosise successfully made the transition from receiver, DeShone Kizer would become the starting quarterback early in the season, and Josh Adams quickly established himself as a trusted true freshman. Run [...]
The Spirit football concept is designed for use in a future Shamrock Series game. Combining elements from the existing football uniform with color combinations and wordmarks from the basketball and baseball teams, the Spirit football uniform integrates the current school-wide Under Armour look and feel into a fun and fresh, but distinctly "Notre Dame", design. [...]
The 2017 NFL Draft is officially in the books and it was a humbling weekend for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish who had to experience one more aftershock from a poor football season and a relatively small group of prospects eager to hear their names called. In all, just 2 players ended up being selected. [...]
The NFL Draft has been going on since 1936 and another edition begins today with the first round. Things kick off at 8 PM ET on either ESPN (are there enough people left!??) or the NFL Network. Of course, our Irish eyes will be focused on one Mr. DeShone Kizer as he is kinda sorta [...]
We're now on to the 5th year under Brian Kelly in this review and so far we saw a poor 2010 season, tremendous 2011, pretty good 2012, and the 2013 season bottomed out almost to the levels of 2010. The good news is that things improved for 2014. The bad news is that the run [...]
In a score line no one will remember or frankly paid attention to the gold team beat the blue team 27-17 on Saturday afternoon in the 88th annual Notre Dame spring game. As usual, a running second half quickly finished the scrimmage and packed the majority of the action into the first two quarters. Let's [...]
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