Tight End U has made way to a position at Notre Dame full of dust and memories. If this weren’t an off-season spent contemplating a 4-8 campaign and a collection of staff turnover the tight end position would be one of the premier complaints going into 2017. It still can be anyway. Feel free to voice [...]
NBC Sports's Keith Arnold tweeted yesterday that Tommy Rees will soon join the Notre Dame staff. Not official, but imminent: Multiple sources tell me that Tommy Rees is returning to Notre Dame to coach quarterbacks. — Keith Arnold (@KeithArnold) January 2, 2017 The South Bend Tribune's Mike Vorel later tweeted comments from Rees saying that nothing [...]
Earlier this season when former Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen popped up on NBC's studio coverage it got me thinking about Irish alums and their (perceived) lack of entry in to the coaching professions. This was aided by Brady Quinn's recent emergence* as a color commentator and studio analyst with Fox Sports. They are joined [...]
The effort to rebuild the Notre Dame coaching staff continues and reportedly added a major piece on Friday afternoon. According to Bruce Feldman at FoxSports, the Irish are set to hire Memphis offensive coordinator Chip Long for the same position in South Bend. Long, 33 years old, just finished his first year at Memphis where [...]
Recently, a story popped up on my Twitter feed from fivethirtyeight.com with a bold headline: Alabama the strongest team in college football history. The way my brain initially processed that was FTE saying Alabama is the best team in the country this year. No wait, the best team, like ever?* Turns out this article was [...]
The Overhaul Continues with a New Special Teams Coach Notre Dame made another rumored football staff addition official today: Brian Polian will return to South Bend, joining Brian Kelly's staff as the new special teams coordinator. Polian was with Charlie Weis throughout his Notre Dame tenure, serving as a defensive assistant from 2005 to 2007 [...]
We haven't suffered quite enough yet. Before we fully turn the page to recruiting, spring practice, and next fall we have to work our way through the positional units and their 2016 performance. Today, I'll take a look at the offensive linemen at a position that should be bringing back its coach from this past [...]
It's bowl season, that strange portion of college football where the weather here in New York is completely at odds with the type of weather we'll see over the Holidays during these exhibition games. If you were busy finishing your gift shopping you might have missed the first bowl games this past weekend. Those featured [...]
Word leaked out of South Bend today that Wake Forest defensive coordinator Mike Elko has agreed to take the same position at Notre Dame. His name first surfaced among Notre Dame reporters a couple of months ago, which led to his inclusion in 18 Stripes's mid-season review of defensive coordinator candidates: He’s not a household name for fans [...]
Today's YouTube Upload takes us back to a short video from late September 1996 on local Columbus CBS affiliate WBNS. And, hey I know that guy! It's Sandusky's own Jay Crawford at a young 31 years old, out on the streets getting the hard sports stories. Within a year and a half he'd be the [...]
On Monday, I looked at the opposing quarterbacks for the first 6 games next fall. Quick recap, things are looking very enticing for the Irish defense. But that's not the first time we've said that, either. We're too jaded to know things likely won't be coming up smelling roses but maybe a new defensive coordinator [...]
It's finals week at Notre Dame which means the athletes on campus are on a short hiatus. The men's hoops teams is off until Saturday while the women are off until Sunday. On Monday, the football program had a lot of news dominating the Irish athletics sphere. Kizer Declares As expected, quarterback DeShone Kizer received [...]
I wrote this post this time last year and back then things looked really promising for Notre Dame. Outside of the Virginia Tech and USC you could make the case that every other 2016 opponent didn't meet expectations at the quarterback position, or at least most programs dealt with a host of problems and injuries [...]
Fire up the bat signal... Aaron Banks became the 18th commitment in Notre Dame's 2017 recruiting class when he announced for the Irish at his school today. The 6-7, 315 lb lineman from El Cerrito High in La Mirada, CA becomes and the fourth offensive lineman, joining Josh Lugg, Robert Hainsey, and Dillan Gibbons. Banks will also join [...]
I don't care about Brian Kelly and Jack Swarbrick. There, I said it. It's off my chest now. I know what you're thinking, "Okay, Eric where is this going?" In the past I've written about the way people cope with struggles with their sports teams and usually we get placed into two groups: those who [...]
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