Notre Dame opens up fall camp on Friday, August 5th as the 1st full season of the Marcus Freeman begins in earnest. It'll be a challenging August where most of the roster questions reside on this side of the ball with Freeman entrusting Tommy Rees to come up with answers after ultimately staying on campus [...]
This post is about the 2022 offense. Specifically, about how it’s time to get aggressive. At a high level, let’s look at the challenges and opportunities our brave Leprechauns face on the glorious side of the ball: Challenges We have a young quarterback who has a lot of talent but will need to play over [...]
In the late Brian Kelly era I argued that Notre Dame's head football coach needed to be a killer on the recruiting trail and anything less was putting a cap on the ceiling of talent available for the Irish. This would seem obvious to most college football fans but in the past Notre Dame didn't [...]
Notre Dame landed a potential #1 receiver today when blue-chip prospect Jaden Greathouse announced for the Irish. The 6'2", 215-pound Texan joins Braylon James and Rico Flores to give the Irish three four star wide receivers in this class; for a program that signed only nine such prospects combined in the previous seven recruiting cycles, [...]
With the summer dead period bringing an end to official visits for 2023 prospects until the season starts, it should come as little surprise that there was a flurry of commitments across the country over the last couple of weeks. Few programs benefited as much as Notre Dame, as the Irish added a bevy of [...]
The rich get richer… Notre Dame extended its scalding hot recruiting streak today when top 100 corner Christian Gray announced for the Irish. The 6’0”, 175 pound Missourian likely had Notre Dame in the lead since visiting with his mother in the fall, but the recruitment was not without some anxious moments. LSU tightened up [...]
Notre Dame added a much-anticipated second receiver in the 2023 class when four star prospect Rico Flores announced for the Irish. The 6’1”, 190 pound Californian set this as his announcement date a long time ago to honor his late uncle, as IrishSportsDaily recently recounted. The when was always clear, but the who was a [...]
This past Thursday news of USC and UCLA suddenly leaving the Pac-12--after nearly 100 years together going back to the old Pacific Coast Conference--to join the Big Ten left the college sports world shooketh, as the kids say. For a bunch of fans who have grown almost numb to conference realignment, or NIL deals, or [...]
Notre Dame’s recent hot streak continued today when four star corner Micah Bell pledged to the Irish. The 5’11”, 170 pound Texan boasts elite speed, posting wind-legal personal bests of 10.41 in the 100 meter and 20.89 in the 200 meter this past spring. And oh by the way he also put up a 24’5-1/4” [...]
Early Independence Day fireworks continued for Notre Dame today when top 100 OT Charles Jagusah announced his commitment to the Irish. The 6’6”, 300 pound Illini had reportedly been down to Notre Dame and Michigan for some time and, well, you know how that goes. recruiting at michigan & notre dame, summer 2022, in two [...]
It's September 27, 2014 and Syracuse has decided to play a home game inside MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey for the pleasure of watching a near capacity crowd of 76,802 cheer on 3-0 Notre Dame. It's an odd time for the Orange as they're in the midst of a basketball-fueled attempt to become [...]
Notre Dame football added another piece to its 2024 recruiting class Friday afternoon when 4-star tight end Jack Larsen verbally committed to the Fighting Irish. The 6'3"/220-pounder out of Charlotte, North Carolina is the 4th player to join Notre Dame's group of 2024 commits, a group which has now passed Florida State for the #1 [...]
The proximity of another NCAA dead period - from June 26th to August 28th, prospects can't meet staff on or off campus - feels like a natural time for us to review the Big Board again. When we last got together we touted the possibility of 2023 being arguably the best class of the internet [...]
Shockwaves shot through the college football recruiting world today when five-star quarterback CJ Carr announced for the Irish. The 6'3", 190 pound Michigander is a huge win for Tommy Rees and Notre Dame not just because of his talent - at #20 overall in the 2024 247 Composite, he's the highest ranked QB to pledge [...]
Notre Dame added another piece to its offensive line haul Tuesday afternoon when interior prospect Joe Otting verbally committed to the Fighting Irish. The 6'4"/275-pounder out of Topeka, Kansas is the 14th commit for Notre Dame's class of 2023 and third along the offensive line. pic.twitter.com/zwdSdrbDkz — Joe Otting (@JoeOtting) June 7, 2022 Joe is [...]
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