The week of numbers continues! Earlier, we published our primer on the Early Signing Period that began this Wednesday and should just about sew up Notre Dame's 2022 recruiting class. Next, we jumped into the overall scholarship situation for Fighting Irish football as Marcus Freeman takes the reigns of his first full recruiting cycle. Today, [...]
Notre Dame continued its hot start in the 2023 class today when top 100 corner Justyn Rhett announced for the Irish. Based on a sterling June visit, Notre Dame and Marcus Freeman took a commanding lead for the 6’1”, 192 pound Nevadan and never relinquished it. Rhett did make the rounds a bit over the [...]
Possibly the most on-again/off-again recruitment of the 2022 cycle finally ended today when blue-chip offensive lineman Billy Schrauth announced his commitment to Notre Dame. The tea leaves very strongly suggested that the 6'5", 300 pound Wisconsinite would commit or had silently committed to Notre Dame all the way back in April - so much so, [...]
Conference championship week is over as Alabama proves yet again they are inevitable, a Group of 5 team finally makes the playoffs, Michigan's run sadly continues, but maybe most importantly we won't have any drama for the Heisman as Bryce Young sewed up the award with a big game against previously undefeated and No. 1 [...]
We know, we know, it's been a while. We've been busy and the 2022 board was, well, not that big. The last time we got together, in September, the Irish class had 21 commits. It has [drum roll] 22 commits today, adding two and losing one (more on that in a bit) over the last [...]
Welcome back to the 18Stripes G5 Top Ten. We had our last big week of games before bowl season on Saturday. While the Power 5 had some more chalk results, we had some more interesting results in the G5. Let's dive into it. Also Considered: Coastal Carolina, Air Force, Northern Illinois, SMU, Western Kentucky Week [...]
The story of Brian Kelly at Notre Dame is one of steady improvement. His success wasn't instant, with close-game struggles and a 4-5 start in Year 1 and the most frustrating possible 0-2 start in Year 2. There were dramatic swings here and there - the breakthrough in 2012 few saw coming, and the collapse [...]
Notre Dame introduced its new 35-year old head coach Marcus Freeman on Monday afternoon to an assembled crowd inside the indoor practice facility. Exactly 11 months ago Andy wrote an article for this website announcing the hiring of Freeman as defensive coordinator in a battle with LSU that many thought the Irish would lose. Then, [...]
Notre Dame narrowly missed out on another College Football Playoff bid and as expected was given a berth in the Fiesta Bowl where they'll face Big 12 runner-up Oklahoma State to start the New Year. The Cowboys won 11 out of their first 12 games this season with only a blemish road loss at Iowa [...]
Ryan Day finally loses a Big Ten game, the Iron Bowl came through again, Nebraska found yet another way to inflict a devastating loss on its fans, North Carolina blows it magnificently, Bedlam delivered craziness, and we learned not to trust Wisconsin. College football is the best. With the regular season behind us, let's take [...]
Thanks to Marcus Freeman, our long (48 hour) national nightmare is over. Brian Kelly sent shockwaves through the Notre Dame fan base and raised eyebrows around the country when he bolted South Bend for Baton Rouge on Monday. Once upon a time, the school known for glacially-paced background checks may have run a search for [...]
Welcome back to another edition of Five Wide Fullbacks where this week we are talking all things Brian Kelly. Nearly 12 full years with the program and gone on a plane to Baton Rouge after a brief meeting with the players, what a wild ending it's been to a long tenure for Kelly. We're going [...]
Can we skip awarding this year's Heisman Trophy? Can this year finally be the one where we award someone for the quality of their career? Don't get me wrong now, I'm usually a staunch defender of the Heisman process and avoid the too-cool-for-school criticisms that it's become a joke of an award. This year, though! [...]
In a sudden matter of minutes on Monday night, Brian Kelly was gone from Notre Dame. After nearly 12 full seasons the coach has decided to leave for LSU and what is reportedly a very large bag of money. We'll have more on his legacy in the coming days and weeks. Speculation on who will [...]
Well, that escalated quickly. Late this afternoon reports surfaced that LSU was targeting Brian Kelly as their next head coach, with athletic director Scott Woodward likely to make some type of godfather offer. While the details haven't emerged, it appears he found an offer that Kelly couldn't refuse. Sources: LSU is expecting to hire Notre [...]
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