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 [...]
Notre Dame lost another big game and got out-classed in many areas. In some other areas, the Irish stood firm and held their own. It was clearly not an ugly loss on the scoreboard and if you'd like it was surely somewhat of a moral victory to stay competitive with Alabama for stretches of the [...]
No surprises came out of New Year's Day and the Rose Bowl, as Notre Dame lost to Alabama 31-14 in a game whose outcome was pretty much settled very early. I have no artsy lead to this, so let's just get right into it: Notre Dame is way better than in 2012, and it didn't [...]
Since Notre Dame and Alabama met for the 2012 BCS National Championship a lot has transpired. The Irish will soon be picking their 4th new defensive coordinator as Clark Lea soon heads to Vanderbilt and they are already on their 4th new offensive coordinator since that fateful night in Miami. Alabama has changed offensive coordinators [...]
What is this? We're ranking the Notre Dame blue home uniforms from best to worst. For reference, check out the introduction post below to find out how we're grading each set and how we came to determine what is good and bad in Irish sartorial history. Ranking Notre Dame Football's Home Blue Uniforms: An Intro [...]
When a team is hovering around a three-touchdown underdog, a lot of match-up and scheme questions go out the window in favor of simple ones - How do the Irish stay competitive with a historic Alabama offense? What would the path to an upset victory even look like? What moves give Clark Lea and Tommy [...]
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