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 [...]
John Madden passed away on December 28th at the age of 85 leaving behind of the most memorable and lasting impacts on football in American history. Although he stopped coaching in the NFL (1978) before I was born, retired from the television booth well over 10 years ago, and hadn't been in the spotlight much [...]
You can't keep your boy down. After mulling over taking the week off to let the Fiesta Bowl loss simmer before coming back to writing I'm here to offer some brief thoughts on the 2022 depth chart. Typically, this would be one of if not the longest articles of the year. This time around, I'm [...]
When the score reached 14-0 in favor of Notre Dame I quite literally bounded to the bathroom past the rest of my family working on a jigsaw puzzle in the nearby room. My instinct was to announce how awesome Notre Dame looked under Marcus Freeman when, as I worked my way toward them, I checked [...]
If Notre Dame couldn't get this one, against this team, with the momentum they had coming in, then it's easy to self-flagellate and think the Irish are just never going to win one of these things. Notre Dame lost the Fiesta Bowl to Oklahoma State 37-35, not scoring the entire second half until it was [...]
This Saturday afternoon Notre Dame will be playing in its 26th major bowl game (including the 2012 BCS National Championship Game) and is making its 6th appearance in the Fiesta Bowl. After winning their first Fiesta Bowl game back in 1988 to clinch the school's last National Championship, the Irish have lost their last 4 [...]
I started the bones of this article back in November a few days after Lincoln Riley packed his bags for USC and then Brian Kelly decided Baton Rouge needed to be his new home so this news with the Trojans fell off the map for a while. Before we get started, dear USC, are you [...]
Welcome back to America's greatest question and answer segment Five Wide Fullbacks. This week we'll tackle those silly kids opting out of bowl games, plus the possible return of a curmudgeon-y assistant coach, Marcus Freeman's sense of style, a trade-off at wide receiver, and breaking NCAA passing records. 1) More and more players are deciding [...]
This off-season will provide a lot of opinions and content regarding quarterback Tyler Buchner and his future as the No. 1 quarterback for the Irish in 2022. Since the mobile Californian has already established he's a big threat as a runner (7.30 yards per carry on 336 yards as a true freshman) a lot of [...]
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