2021 Football Recruiting Grades: Offensive Backfield & Kicker

Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2021 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 backfield. Plus the kicker, because he has to go somewhere. As a reminder, here's our [...]

By |2021-02-13T11:06:30-05:00February 13th, 2021|Football, Recruiting|22 Comments

2022 Football Recruiting: DE Aiden Gobaira Commits to Notre Dame

The 2022 Notre Dame class picked up its fourth linemen recently when weakside defensive end Aiden Gobaira announced for the Irish. The 6'6", 235-pound Virginian joined recent commit Tyson Ford in the 2022 defensive line group. Ford is more acclaimed at the moment, but there are some similarities between them - both are long, quick, [...]

By |2021-02-12T09:30:46-05:00February 11th, 2021|Football, Recruiting|9 Comments

The 2021 National Signing Day Review: Can You Diggs It?

The End of a Strange Journey The prospects of the 2021 class undoubtedly went through the strangest recruiting experience in the post-World War II era of college football. They couldn't take real visits, couldn't view practices, couldn't go to games, couldn't have coaches visit them. When they committed, it was often to a school they [...]

By |2021-02-09T14:08:46-05:00February 9th, 2021|Football, Recruiting|30 Comments

The Mega 2021 Notre Dame Football Depth Chart Preview

It is time. As of this writing we are 209 days away from Notre Dame's season opener at Florida State. Today, I will take a stroll through Notre Dame's roster and cover a plethora of topics about the Irish depth chart as we head into Brian Kelly's 12th season and first with new defensive coordinator [...]

By |2021-02-08T09:03:44-05:00February 8th, 2021|Football|39 Comments

An Early Look at the 2021 Notre Dame Opponent Quarterbacks: Games 7-12

Today, we are going to look at the Notre Dame opponent quarterbacks in the back half of the 2021 schedule. If you missed it, here's a link to part one from last week: Part 1: Games 1-6 The Irish are expected to be facing a tough batch of quarterback to begin 2021 but will the [...]

By |2021-02-02T08:42:55-05:00February 2nd, 2021|Football|4 Comments

An Early Look at the 2021 Notre Dame Opponent Quarterbacks: Games 1-6

It will be a new era at quarterback for Notre Dame in 2021 as Ian Book moves on and a fresh starter needs to be broken in soon. With the Irish facing question marks at the all-important position we wanted to take some time and look at the upcoming opponents this fall and see where [...]

By |2021-01-26T21:02:00-05:00January 26th, 2021|Football|15 Comments

An Interview with Brian Fremeau of the Fremeau Efficiency Index

Although the 2020 college football season ended with a dominant Alabama team winning a title and that's a story we've seen numerous times in recent years there's no doubt that this past year will go down as one of the strangest of our lifetimes. It was so weird at times that many of the advanced [...]

By |2021-01-21T09:31:37-05:00January 21st, 2021|Football|6 Comments

Find the Sniper: An Introduction to the Marcus Freeman Defense

In what should be one of the top national stories of the off-season, Notre Dame swatted away Louisiana State for the services of rising superstar defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman. The Huber Heights, Ohio native who was once a blue-chip recruit and very good player at Ohio State has risen steadily over his first 10 years [...]

By |2021-01-14T13:36:56-05:00January 13th, 2021|Football|20 Comments

The Notre Dame Off-Season Project: 6 Roster Areas of Concern

Check out part 1 of this Notre Dame Off-Season Project where we went big picture with some deep thoughts on Notre Dame's ceiling, recruiting efforts, and Brian Kelly's role in making sure the Irish take the next step as a program. For today, we will drill down to some roster issues and look more at [...]

By |2021-01-11T11:49:29-05:00January 11th, 2021|Football|87 Comments

Notre Dame Hires Marcus Freeman as DC, and Brian Kelly Sends a Message

Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly sent a shot across the bow of college football Friday evening when the school announced the hiring of former Cincinnati defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman as Clark Lea's replacement at the same position. Please welcome Bob Hinton Defensive Coordinator/LB coach, @Marcus_Freeman1. ☘️ 📰 https://t.co/ZMIEQvRhun#GoIrish x #Rally pic.twitter.com/Ovy89FyBBb — Notre Dame [...]

By |2021-01-08T23:24:54-05:00January 8th, 2021|18S Reads, Football|12 Comments

Wunanimous: All-American and Award Roundup

"If you combine the MVP voting with the All-NBA teams, the playoff results, and individual statistics, you end up with a reasonable snapshot of exactly what happened that NBA season.” Bill Simmons makes this remark in the middle of the behemoth of his 2009 release The Book of Basketball about how to represent who really [...]

By |2021-01-08T01:40:53-05:00January 8th, 2021|Football|17 Comments
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