With news breaking today that Notre Dame will soon name Al Golden as its new defensive coordinator, Marcus Freeman has finished putting his stamp on his first staff as a head coach. There was more churn than anyone expected given a major buzzword of the transition to the Freeman era was "continuity," particularly on the [...]
Notre Dame's 2023 class jumped into the #1 spot in the 247 Composite on Friday when four-star linebacker Preston Zinter announced his commitment to the Irish. Avid Irish recruiting fans may recognize the 6'3", 221-pound Bay Staters' surname; his older brother Zak is a former Irish target at offensive guard and incumbent starter for Michigan. [...]
Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2022 Notre Dame recruiting class with recruit grades and some thoughts on the class. We started a deeper dive into position groups with a look at the offensive skill positions, then moved on to the offensive line, then the defensive line (plus the punter, because he has to [...]
Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2022 Notre Dame recruiting class with recruit grades and some thoughts on the class. We started a deeper dive into the class by position group with a look at the offensive skill positions, then moved on to the offensive line. Today we're going to look at the defensive [...]
Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2022 Notre Dame recruiting class with recruit grades and some thoughts on the class. We're in the midst of a deeper dive on each position group, which started Tuesday with the offensive skill positions. Today we're looking in the trenches on offense, where Notre Dame has put together [...]
Most of the time these lists are for non-league games only. This year, I wanted to add cross-divisional games to the mix as we'll see some spicy matchups coming in 2022. My apologies to the Big 12 in advance. The rankings used today are from the Sporting News Composite Top 25 (HERE) made up of [...]
Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2022 Notre Dame recruiting class with recruit grades and some thoughts on the class. Over the next several days we'll go into a deeper dive on each position group, starting today with the offensive skill positions (which, sadly, we can condense into a single post). As a reminder, [...]
A Shift in the Landscape Well, all quiet on all fronts, really... Once again, as has been the case since the early signing period was instituted a few cycles ago, Notre Dame's recruiting class was all but wrapped up in December. In fact everyone's recruiting class was more or less wrapped up in December; of the [...]
With a veteran defense that came back for 2021 there wasn't a lot of opportunity for Notre Dame's freshmen to make an impact. In total, only the top rated defensive recruit from the class (linebacker Prince Kollie) and hybrid linebacker/pass rusher Kahanu Kia burned a year of eligibility this past fall. Kollie's decision was expected [...]
Notre Dame had 8 players on offense from the 2021 recruiting class take a redshirt during the team's run to the Fiesta Bowl. One player was starting from day one prior to an injury, another was in the mix until yet another injury, while there was hope a third player would at least see some [...]
What if I told you that with one of the best running backs of this recent Notre Dame era, with one of the most fun running backs in school history, with a tailback with such a high approval rating that he'd sit out the Fiesta Bowl to protect his draft stock, that we'd see maybe [...]
I'm a broken record on this subject, I know. Every year it pains me how short the college football season is and now we have 222 days from today until the 2022 season kicks off with week 0 games. This 2021 college football season while still a bit strange did feel like much more of [...]
Confession time; when I was growing up I was immensely more into college basketball than college football. That allure almost certainly came from March Madness and monitoring those games during the day when I went to school (if I did go to school that day). However, I was always a football fan deep down. Between [...]
We are set to conclude the 8th edition of the College Football Playoffs this Monday night live from Indianapolis as the powers-that-be finally decided a place outside of a warm weather region could host the National Championship Game. Too bad Notre Dame couldn't have made the trip down south in their own state for this [...]
What a year. There was a whole lot of weirdness, preseason top ten teams falling on their faces repeatedly, lots of the elite suddenly looking vulnerable, the SEC starting bowl season 1-5... Did you know that this is the first playoff with none of Ohio State, Clemson, or Oklahoma? It's been running since 2014 and [...]
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