Friday night news broke that is never good news. Incoming freshman 2020 corner prospect Landen Bartleson was arrested and charged with first-degree burglary, first-degree criminal mischief, and receiving stolen property valued at $10,000 or more after breaking into a store to steal guns. After an initial comment about waiting to gather facts, less than 24 [...]
I have always had an awareness of the College Hall of Fame since I was a child. I even went to the version that was in South Bend was I was seven years old and on my first visit to Notre Dame. It was perfectly fine. I had never put much more thought into it [...]
Are you ready for some football? Well, you'll have to wait a little while longer for the college football variety. That doesn't mean we can't look ahead to the 2020 national schedule and some of the top non-league games lurking in the distance. Full disclosure, there might be a couple games listed that are reaches [...]
YouTube was created a few months after Charlie Weis was hired at Notre Dame and the first video uploaded to the site came in late April 2005. So, it's been around a while but in the grand scheme really not that long. Every once and a while I'll take a look at Notre Dame football [...]
Six years after a college career that saw him throw for over 7,000 yards in a golden helmet former Irish quarterback Tommy Rees has been named Notre Dame's new offensive coordinator at the fresh age of 27 years old. Rees will continue to be the quarterbacks coach--a position he has held since 2017--while running backs [...]
As the dust settles on the last games of the 2019 season, taking (with video!) a look at Notre Dame's advanced stats in the Camping World Bowl win over Iowa State. The Irish dominated the key categories of explosiveness, efficiency, and creating and converting scoring chances. But things were closer than they appeared in the [...]
If you don't like talking about depth charts for a season kicking off in 8 months are you even a real football fan? This is half the fun! Before diving into each position group I wanted to take a moment to address the re-build on defense that was projected for 2020. Here's a brief look [...]
They said it wouldn't happen. He wasn't going anywhere, he loves Notre Dame too much, and it doesn't make sense to transfer only sit out a year when the job could be his in South Bend in 2021 once Ian Book leaves. Heck, maybe he was one injury away from being the starter next fall. [...]
I'm not saying I am updating the list. But if I were to do that... Things have changed and yet in a way they do stay the same. Back at our old home I once undertook the internet's castigated challenge of chronicling the worst losses in the proud history of Fighting Irish football. Some people [...]
Warning: This is not going to be pretty. For the sake of limiting the discussion we will set aside the offensive line play and/or play-calling and/or coaching to focus primarily on the running backs. Before we dig into the numbers below a few points to mention: 1) Much Love to Tony Jones Jr. For the [...]
My father once said that the definition of mixed feelings is watching your mother-in-law drive off a cliff in your new Cadillac. That feels like an apt description of Notre Dame's 2019 season - it was mostly very good, but the Caddy went careening over the precipice in Ann Arbor and it's impossible for that [...]
As the saying goes you can only perform against the opponents put in front of you. For the Fighting Irish following an embarrassing loss at Michigan they would finish the season with 6 straight wins and a 11-2 record. In that 6-game stretch they would be an impressive +142 in point differential concluding with a [...]
It's time to go bowling. This Saturday afternoon the Irish will kickoff against Iowa State for the first meeting between the schools, while the Cotton Bowl between Penn State and Memphis will go head-to-head over on ESPN in the same time slot. Later in the day we will see the two playoff games at 4:00 [...]
After a decade on the job I understand how anyone would be interested in plotting the course ahead in the Notre Dame football post-Brian Kelly world. In fact, I'm as guilty as anyone. Even among the cooler heads it's been a rocky road for the current Irish coach who faced a mountain of scrutiny in [...]
As is the case every time this month until the change is made the debate about an 8-team college football playoff is making the rounds again. It's likely to happen at some point in the future, so it seems. How it ends up shaping the football post-season is the more important question and one we [...]
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