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 [...]
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 [...]
Quick, what season do you think of when you think of reasons the BCS didn’t work? You probably answered one of, 2003, 2004, or 2011. Those seasons seemed to break the system placed by the BCS due to one key reason; the system picked the wrong teams. 2003 USC, 2004 Auburn, 2011 Oklahoma State all [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Now we have arrived at the mountain top. What are we doing? We are ranking the best Notre Dame football home blue uniforms of the modern era. Check out the introductory post for the reasoning behind this and how we've graded out each uniform, plus the previous two articles containing our rankings before today. Ranking [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
What are we doing? We are ranking the best Notre Dame football uniforms in modern history in a three-part series. Today, we unveil Part II and the middle group of uniforms. Check out our introductory post explaining the grading as well as the first article detailing the worst home blue uniforms for the Irish. Ranking [...]
Notre Dame is heading into an important off-season coming off a Rose Bowl loss and yet another season without a major trophy to add to the Gug. As Brian Kelly begins preparations for his 12th year with the program, the Irish stand at a bit of a crossroads. Four years after the Kelly 2.0 rebuild [...]
Well, that didn't take long. Late Monday night, the Fighting Irish received the commitment from graduate transfer quarterback Jack Coan in an effort to strengthen the roster ahead of a 2021 rebuild without Ian Book. A former Notre Dame lacrosse commit, Coan later blew up as a quarterback coming out of Sayville, New York, and [...]
Bowl games are inherently weird if you stop and think about them for too long. They are glorified exhibitions between teams that aren’t always on the same competitive level, especially in these G5 games. Even the G5 vs P5 games this year weren’t with teams that are normally in contention for the bowls (looks at [...]
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