Notre Dame football finished up their 5-day camp at Culver Academy on Thursday and will take Friday off before returning to practice on Saturday in what should be the debut of the new indoor practice field. The media will be present for that session and was witness to Thursday's practice, as well. This time, the [...]
Reviewing this post from last year was pretty enlightening. If you recall, Vegas was all hot and bothered by a bunch of running backs ahead of the 2018 season and listed several with obscenely high odds. Here's what happened with a few of those players: Jonathan Taylor, RB, Wisconsin He finished 6th in the 2017 [...]
The traditional stats such as passing yards and rushing attempts don't mean what they used to in the game of football. God forbid someone starts telling you how important time of possession is to winning. Never sleep on yards per play, though. It's one of my favorite old-school indicators of quality football, even without adjusting [...]
Notre Dame football opened fall camp once again to the south of campus at Culver Academy as they begin preparations for the 2019 season. This was the first of 5 straight practices before the Irish return to South Bend to finish up camp and set their sights on Lousville. The media was assembled for the [...]
Brian Kelly opened the 2019 football season with a Noon press conference from campus today. It was on the shorter side and pretty lean in terms of juicy details on the team but we are here to do our best recapping everything that was mentioned. #1 The Infirmary is Empty As expected, the news on [...]
Fall camp is just around the corner for the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame as they prepare for the 2019 season and transition from the development of spring to the immediacy of creating the best football team possible for September. In a matter of weeks, Notre Dame will open their season with a true road [...]
The SEC didn't win the National Championship but once again crowned itself as the top football league in the country. Alabama remained Alabama, Georgia's rise under Kirby Smart continued, Kentucky had a once-in-a-generation season, new coaches at Florida and Mississippi State did well, LSU was squarely in the mix, while Missouri had a surprisingly solid [...]
We've done it, the Notre Dame Hall of Fame Pyramid is complete. Over the last few months we've chronicled the very best of Fighting Irish players in an incredible 185-man pyramid leading up to the elite of elite talent to grace the football field in South Bend. HERE is a link to the last post [...]
It's been dark times for the Pac-12 as the conference continues to suffer from an ongoing identity crisis, poor league leadership, and the failure of standards missed as one of the country's most fertile athletic regions struggles to establish itself as a dominant football conference. Let's go ahead and blame USC for a lot of [...]
I created a primer to this project which explains the way we'll be ranking all 185 players. It will be a pyramid structure and as we ascend the players will get better and better. Follow along this off-season as we preach about all the wonderful talent that has played for Notre Dame. Level 1, Wing [...]
While Notre Dame lines up one of its more friendly home schedules in recent memory the program is also facing one of its more challenging road campaigns for 2019. National spotlight games against Georgia and Michigan await while the always tricky--and as of late never winnable--trip to Stanford concludes the regular season. How does the [...]
Folks, fall camp isn't that far away and it's time to start thinking about the 2019 season. I was wondering about last year's Top 25 Players ranking from August 10, 2018 and how things would've been rearranged. Of course, that will be part of our new 2019 Top 25 list in the coming weeks. Instead, [...]
Oklahoma loves the Big 12 Championship Game. In the 6 seasons when the conference dropped the league title game the Sooners only won the Big 12 outright once and shared a title another time. In the 13 previous seasons with a title game (including being reinstated for 2017) the Sooners have won the Big 12 [...]
I created a primer to this project which explains the way we'll be ranking all 185 players. It will be a pyramid structure and as we ascend the players will get better and better. Follow along this off-season as we preach about all the wonderful talent that has played for Notre Dame. Level 1, Wing [...]
Recently, the University of Connecticut accepted an invitation to re-join the Big East Conference. This is good news for their basketball programs--especially the women who are 102-0 in league play and haven't lost a conference game since March 4, 2013 at Notre Dame in their previous league--who were beginning to wallow away in obscurity before [...]
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