Last Monday we tackled the Notre Dame offense ahead of fall camp, if you missed that coverage you can read it HERE. Today, we look at the defense and an important year for numerous reasons which we will cover below. The Irish defense has been the steadier leader on the team compared to the offense [...]
The offseason deep dives continue with the Irish passing offense, a unit that also struggled with consistency with Drew Pyne starting ten games. The passing game sometimes feasted on overmatched defenses (UNC, BYU, USC), but more commonly struggled with defenses whether opponents were similarly talented or overmatched. Defensive coordinators often dared Pyne and the Irish [...]
Notre Dame opens up the 2nd fall camp of the Marcus Freeman era on Wednesday, July 26th with the Week 0 game in Ireland against Navy quickly approaching. As of this writing, just 40 days away until kickoff in Dublin! It feels like the middle of summer (well technically it is) but Irish football is [...]
For the past couple of years this article was the top out of conference and cross-divisional games to watch in the upcoming season. For 2023, the ACC and Mountain West are dropping their division format, plus the Conference-USA and Pac-12 did the same last year. That's in addition to the AAC (since 2020) and Big [...]
Georgia is going for 3 straight National Championships this fall, a chance to be the only team in modern history to pull off the feat. Officially (a definition that is very loosely defined in the history of college football) only 1 team has won 3 straight titles, Minnesota from 1934 through 1936. Many other programs [...]
The annual offseason breakdowns + previews return! As in past summers, I’ll be breaking down the performance of each unit – passing and rushing offense and defense – with a look ahead to 2023 and what this means for the Irish. First up is the Notre Dame run game, a unit that showed dominant potential [...]
Marcus Freeman may very well benefit from an explosive, difficult to defend offense in his second turn at the helm. By keeping it in the family and tabbing Gerad Parker as OC, Coach Freeman may have found the perfect driver for a neon-colored, nitrous-boosted, titanium reinforced 2023 ND Offense, […]
Notre Dame almost started 11-0 back in 2015 and I think about it all the time. Yes, it wasn't the most difficult schedule to contend with until that final trip to Stanford. We saw Texas flop in the 2nd year of Charlie Strong's tenure, Virginia lost 8 games, Georgia Tech was coming off an 11-win [...]
Five Wide Fullbacks returns to the world with questions on Big Ten matchups, air conditioning in football helmets, the first head coach fired this fall, the team to watch early in September, plus an underrated 2024 Irish commit. 1) Hypothetically, let's say Notre Dame joins the Big Ten in football from 2024 and you can [...]
This is the second year we've done this pro scouting annual for the Irish football team. If you missed the 2023 article on the offense CLICK HERE. As a reminder, here's a refresher on some of the guidelines to who is included and who is not: Older players who have not made the necessary impact [...]
This is the second year we've done this pro scouting annual for the Irish football team. As a reminder, here's a refresher on some of the guidelines to who is included and who is not: Older players who have not made the necessary impact in terms of a possible NFL career are not included. We [...]
Notre Dame doesn't seem to be a wildly different program since Brian Kelly left for LSU, in some ways you have to squint to see any concrete differences. In some areas that's a positive sign, in other areas it's a source of frustration. On a national level, the 2023 college football season should be the [...]
If you missed it, check out the first part of this series where we looked at the quarterback situations at Navy, Tennessee State, NC State, Central Michigan, Ohio State, and Duke. Today, we'll take a look at the back half of the 2023 Fighting Irish schedule featuring the reigning Heisman Trophy winner, plus a few [...]
Notre Dame switched to Under Armour as the apparel outfitter ahead of the 2014 season and the tweaks and changes to the standard football have been few and far between. The subtle change to Leahy player numbers for the 2016 season is really the only semi-major update to the Irish uniforms during the Under Armour [...]
The 2023 NFL Draft completed this past Saturday with 3 players from Notre Dame getting selected. Now only 360 days until the 2024 Draft commences in Detroit as Joe Alt Watch™ begins with the coveted left tackle surely considering leaving after his junior. After a quick peek at some way-too-early mock drafts, Alt was listed [...]
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