If Barry Sanders isn't considered the greatest college football player of all-time his 1988 Heisman-winning campaign may be the single greatest season in the history of the sport. For the record, ESPN ranked Sanders merely the 9th best player in college history during their celebration of the 150th anniversary of the game a year ago. [...]
The board has been fairly quiet as most prospects have focused on packing their suitcases for the end of our long national winter the dead period on June 1st. As we mentioned last time, Notre Dame has an absolutely monster month of visits set up, for 2022 and 2023 prospects, and every other school has done [...]
Welcome back to the Odyssey. As always, you can click here to read all parts of the journey covered so far. Last time, we took a look at the 2001 SEC season. Today, we're going to take a look at the 2001 Pac-10 season. Coming off one of its successful seasons, with one major star [...]
This offseason we'll be breaking down the performance of each unit - passing and rushing offense and defense - with a look ahead to 2021 and what this means for the Irish. First up is the Notre Dame run game, which brings back a loaded running back room but is working through a complete overhaul [...]
Recently, Notre Dame saw another player who left early selected in the NFL Draft. Although the Irish program is creeping towards 20 players all-time who left early for the Draft they have seen a major uptick in the Brian Kelly era following an extremely long dry spell. Full disclosure, we're using the traditional and strictest [...]
Recently, we journeyed back to the first big home game of the 2012 season and a copious amount of turnovers from Michigan. Today, we'll venture back to 2012 again and the regular season finale in Los Angeles. A game which, at the conclusion of, I teared up quite a bit. I'll bet many of you [...]
Notre Dame added another quality tight end to its 2022 class today when Holden Staes announced for the Irish. The 6'5", 230 pound Georgian committed to Penn State last summer but re-opened his recruitment in February. This wasn't a case of second thoughts after his recruitment blew up, as he already had almost all his [...]
Welcome back to the Odyssey. As always, you can click here to read all parts of the journey covered so far. Last time, we took a look at the 2001 Big Ten season. Today, we're going to take a look at the 2001 SEC season. The SEC isn't as much of a monolith it would [...]
Notre Dame had 9 players picked in the 2021 NFL Draft, the most since the 1994 Draft when 10 players came off the board from South Bend. Don't you worry about what happened in the '94 season when the Irish lost that much talent. Anyway, except for their top prospect falling it was a surprisingly [...]
The vastly superior color came away with the win on Saturday afternoon as the Blue squad defeated the Gold squad 17-3 in front of a few thousand students and family members during Notre Dame's 2021 spring game. Here are my thoughts from all of the action inside Notre Dame Stadium: I thought former receiver Corey [...]
Let us do the spring game dance. After 14 practices shut off from the media (still bitter about it), the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame will make a live public appearance inside Notre Dame Stadium to the cheers of several thousand socially-distanced fans this Saturday afternoon. If you got excited about a diving catch from [...]
Live from Cleveland, Ohio! Last year, the Draft was completely remote but this year the hosting Browns coming off a playoff appearance have been working with the NFL to offer some in-person activities around their stadium, Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame, and Cleveland harbor area. This will be the 11th Draft for Brian Kelly [...]
If you're wondering what we're doing, 18 Stripes is counting down the very best 1st Round NFL Draft picks to come out of Notre Dame. We've reached the final installment today. If you missed the first 2 articles you can read them here: Part 1 Part 2 Today, we discuss the very best 1st Round [...]
There's been a decent amount of movement on the board since the last time we checked in on Notre Dame's 2022 offensive recruiting. The biggest development has nothing to do with individual prospects, though; it's that the NCAA has decided to finally lift the dead period as of June 1st, which as you might imagine [...]
Welcome back to the Odyssey. As always, you can click here to read all parts of the journey covered so far. Last time, we took a look at the Big East conference, including how the Miami season wasn’t as smooth as history seems to remember it. Today, we are going to take a look at [...]
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