A Pall of Sadness Descends on Notre Dame Over the Passing of Louis Nix

"You ain't trying to get better, man." More than any other episode of the now lost Chocolate News videos--once uploaded to the Notre Dame Athletics YouTube page--this quote has always stuck with me. Louis Nix, the larger than life personality who was on campus from 2010-13, dubbed himself 'Irish Chocolate' and provided fans from all [...]

By |2021-03-01T08:14:55-05:00February 28th, 2021|Football|9 Comments

2021 Football Recruiting Grades: Front Seven

Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2021 Notre Dame recruiting class with recruit grades and some thoughts on the class. We started a deeper dive on each position group with the offensive backfield (and shoehorned the kicker into it), then we moved on to the guys whose main job is to catch the damn [...]

By |2021-02-25T08:43:04-05:00February 25th, 2021|Football, Recruiting|30 Comments

2022 Football Recruiting: RB JD Price Commits to Notre Dame

Notre Dame added a key offensive piece to its 2022 class yesterday when four-star running back Jadarian "JD" Price announced for the Irish. The 5'11", 180-pound Texan picked up his Notre Dame offer a little over three weeks ago and was set to visit independently this week before the Lone Star State ice storm wrecked [...]

By |2021-02-22T10:12:25-05:00February 22nd, 2021|Football, Recruiting|7 Comments

2021 Football Recruiting Grades: Offensive Line

Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2021 Notre Dame recruiting class with recruit grades and some thoughts on the class. We started a deeper dive on each position group with the offensive backfield (and shoehorned the kicker into it), then we moved on to the guys whose main job is to catch the damn [...]

By |2021-02-17T10:11:57-05:00February 21st, 2021|Football, Recruiting|7 Comments

2021 Football Recruiting Grades: Receivers

Hopefully you enjoyed our overview of the 2021 Notre Dame recruiting class with recruit grades and some thoughts on the class. We started a deeper dive on each position group with the offensive backfield (and shoehorned the kicker into it). Today we're going to dig into the guys whose main job is to catch the [...]

By |2021-02-17T10:04:44-05:00February 17th, 2021|Football, Recruiting|9 Comments

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
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