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 [...]
Get ready for a tectonic shift in collegiate athletics, folks: Later today the NCAA is expected to formalize acceptance of a rule that will allow all student-athletes to transfer once without having to sit out a season of competition. The one-time transfer rule for athletes in all sports has been approved by the NCAA's Division [...]
The NFL Draft is coming up on Thursday, April 29th in Cleveland as Notre Dame hopes to add 1 or 2 more players to its tally of 1st round picks throughout the program's long history. Heading into this month, the Fighting Irish have 69* picks in the 1st round trailing only Ohio State (84) and [...]
Notre Dame football is in the middle of spring practice and as everyone knows the media are not allowed access to the workouts due to the Covid pandemic. However, fret not. The school has done us all a favor and released some videos for consumption for everyone to enjoy. Have you been enjoying the videos [...]
Notre Dame added another big, athletic defensive end to its 2022 class today when Darren Agu announced for the Irish. The 6'6", 225-pound Georgia resident has had quite a fascinating journey to where he is now. Born in Ireland, Agu moved to London as a child. He played six-man football there and made a name [...]
Welcome back to the Odyssey. A reminder you can read all previous posts here. Today, we take a brief look into the seeming formality of the 2001 Big East Season. Miami entered the 2001 season, as mentioned in the intro post, ready to take no prisoners after being snubbed for being snubbed a chance at [...]
When I came up with the idea for Volume 5 of this series it was with the thinking that the Kansas City Chiefs would be winning their second straight Super Bowl. As it happens, the Chiefs did not repeat as champions. Still, Patrick Mahomes carries a 38-8 record in the NFL regular season and 44-10 [...]
Entering the 2013 football season the National Football League made a quiet change to its uniform policy requiring all teams to limit their franchise to just one helmet shell for an entire season. Uniwatch has a good FAQ surrounding the recent rule and why it was implemented. Basically, the league was advised in the face [...]
A few weeks back we kicked off the 2022 offense big board with a comprehensive run down of where everything stood. Fast forward a couple of weeks and we don't have a ton of movement, but we do have a couple of developments worth noting. The Irish staff used St. Patrick's day as a huge [...]
Notre Dame football opened up spring practice on Saturday and with no outsiders allowed at any of the workouts we're left with the scraps from coaches and players' Zoom sessions with the media. Following the first workout, head coach Brian Kelly took about 20 minutes of questions from reporters with a trio of subjects jumping [...]
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