Notre Dame is half way through spring practice already with another workout coming Thursday and the 4th open practice arriving this Saturday over the past 9 days. It's this odd feeling of...too many practice reports? It's a weird thing to say but the amount of access so far this spring has been quite different. Normally, [...]
Spring football is in session which means there's no time to waste for 18S content. This past Friday we posted our first practice report since the Irish opened up a workout to the media following a long break from school. The team was right back at it again on Saturday with the media in attendance [...]
The Brian Kelly press conference to open spring practice began on March 1st. On Thursday morning the Irish were back on the field for their 5th practice of spring, the 2nd workout since coming back from break, and the first fully open practice to the media. Following a long wait, the team will now allow [...]
Introduction: For my first piece on 18Stripes, I had to think about how I could contribute. I know less about football than Burgz or Larz (and others), and very little of recruiting compared to Brendan and Tyler (or anyone). However, I know a fair bit about scientific research - and I know a lot about [...]
Clemson football has been cultivating a graveyard for decades and somehow I didn't learn this until a few days ago. I saw a story about it on social media and just assumed it was either fake or something put together for comedic effect. Then, I went back and looked it up and it's so very [...]
In the first installment of College Football Season Throwback we went all the way back to the 1994 season and the dawning of a Nebraska dynasty. This next part fast forwards 4 years to the opening up of a new era of college football that would go on to completely transform the game all across [...]
While researching a recent article about Notre Dame's internet roster I noticed something that was impossible to ignore. Comparing the 2010 Fighting Irish roster versus the 2018 roster there appeared to be far fewer white players recently on campus. So, this sent me down a rabbit hole to bring you this content today. First, a [...]
I will be perfectly honest, I was prepared for Miles Boykin to run dead last among the wideouts in the 40-yard dash in this weekend's NFL Combine. Anything from 4.75 to 4.85 wouldn't have surprised me in the least bit. For the record, Texas receiver Lil'Jordan Humphrey finished last among the participants at his position [...]
Notre Dame opened up spring practice on Saturday late morning for a workout that lasted a little over 2 hours in the (soon-to-be old) indoor practice facility with the media able to watch the opening 45 minutes. Blessed are we that the Irish will have 7 more practices completely open to the media for the [...]
Earlier this week we previewed the Notre Dame offense ahead of the opening of spring practice. Today, we turn our attention to the Irish defense coming off an impressive No. 10 national finish in defensive S&P during Clark Lea's first season as coordinator. The young coach will face an important spring replacing several key veterans [...]
In this line of work you tend to spend a lot of time looking at college football rosters. If I'm not on 18 Stripes or cfbstats.com I'm burning a lot of bandwidth on team roster pages. A few quick thoughts on college rosters pages in general: *Some colleges maintain tremendous pages and much love to [...]
Spring practice is just around the corner for Notre Dame football as they officially make preparations for the 2019 season to come a long 6 months away. It's a fairly settled situation for the Irish offense as they return most starters and set about establishing a pecking order for spring, and maybe, discover some new [...]
Every year the Notre Dame roster will provide us a bunch of positive surprises and 2019 will be no different. A while back our writers were discussing the annual Top 25 Irish players list that we vote on with other members of the internet community and how a few players came out of nowhere and [...]
Today marks the first of a series of articles dedicated to seasons from the past. We'll be working in the time frame stretching back to the 80's but nothing more recent than within the last 15 years or so. Basically, the modern game but nothing from the High Definition era. We want to deal with [...]
Lance Taylor will replace outgoing Irish legend Autry Denson as the new Notre Dame running backs coach, per multiple news reports. There's no official confirmation from the university yet (thanks O'Leary!), but if Taylor's Twitter header photo is any indication there's nothing to worry about on that front. No doubt one of the major attractions [...]
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