The 88th edition of the Blue Gold Game takes place this weekend. You can watch the compact 2-hour performance beginning at 12:30 PM ET on NBC Sports Network. We’ve remarked that this has been the Quiet Spring for Notre Dame football as they’ve largely operated in the shadows without much fanfare. We’ll likely remember this [...]
Notre Dame will take the field tomorrow for the first time in 2017 for the annual Blue-Gold game, and finally wipe away the last vestiges of the second Season That Never Happened of the last decade. While a substantial portion of the Irish fan base (drink!) understandably remains in show-me mode, the program has unquestionably generated more [...]
Notre Dame is in the last week of spring practice with the Blue Gold Game coming up this Saturday afternoon. We're now one step closer to real football. While on a (too) short vacation I started looking at the big non-league games for next year and let me tell you this is a great way [...]
Notre Dame is heading into the 4th of its 10-year contract with Under Armour and so far the football team has received minimal changes to its uniforms. Of course, 2014 saw the UA logo placed on the left chest of the jersey, while 2015 saw the ArmourGrid stitching change to the jersey, and 2016 saw [...]
We're now on our 4th uniform concept of the off-season and we've quickly arrived at the darkest of shade as part of the design. Yes, it's our first black uniform concept. Before discussing the actual design it's important to lay down some ground rules for now and the future. Black for Black's Sake We're not [...]
In our last installment the 2012 season saw a very rugged yet mostly positive run success as the Irish raced out to a 12-0 regular season. Then, the National Championship Game happened, an internet hoax took over the headlines, and eventually the returning starting quarterback was suspended for the entire upcoming season. Thus, began the [...]
One of the off-season ideas I've been kicking around is creating a salary cap for college football. I'm not coming at this from a "pay the players" megaphone but rather to create a NFL-type of system to see how it could work in the future and what positives and negatives would happen at the college [...]
Our previous installment in this series recognized how Jonas Gray had a year for the ages seemingly out of nowhere and today we look at the running back success rate for Notre Dame's surprising run through an undefeated regular season. Looking back at the run game for 2012 a couple of story lines remain at [...]
Notre Dame doesn't lack for throwback uniform options. However, the school has such a long and storied history that it opens up the door to a multitude of avenues for fauxback uniforms. Today, we're headed back to 1924. If you're reading this you probably know the history. The year 1924 wasn't Notre Dame's first great [...]
We're just about half way through spring practice for the football team, it's been quiet, and it's bound to stay quiet. Two long breaks from school and March Madness taking up the bulk of the attention will do that. However, we still have 2 more full open practices for the media to view plus the [...]
The Notre Dame game run game in 2010 took turns switching between decent and below average. Heading into 2011 the loss of a couple seniors brought plenty of question marks. However, no one could have been ready for the season Jonas Gray would have as a senior. Sadly, his season and college career were cut [...]
Our second uniform concept for Notre Dame football had one of the more adventurous beginnings. The original idea that gave way to this final design was to put together something that combined 4 or 5 shades of blue with a splash of white. We'll probably revisit that at some point but for today the plan [...]
In early March I had the pleasure of going through Clint Glaze's definitive Notre Dame Uniform History website chronicling over 100 years of sartorial splendor. At the end of that post I mentioned that we'd roll out some uniform concepts and we're debuting design number one here today. I always feel like the best concepts are [...]
The Irish were back on the field for their 5th practice of spring this Saturday with full viewing from the media. Notre Dame spent a portion of the workout indoors and then headed outside for the remainder of practice. This is the only full media availability in practice until April 7th. QUARTERBACK All positive things [...]
Today I'm beginning a series that will look at the run success rate for the Notre Dame running backs since Brian Kelly arrived in 2010. I'll look at each year, 7 posts in all, starting right now with Kelly's maiden voyage in South Bend. Heading into 2010 there was so much focus on Dayne Crist [...]
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