The Top 10 Best Decisions in Notre Dame Football History: #5

Notre Dame has been playing football for 135 years and along the way some momentous decisions were made to shape the history of this storied program now entering a daring new phase of college sports. This off-season, we look back at the 10 best decisions made for the Fighting Irish in the decades past. #5 [...]

By |2024-04-28T15:22:07-04:00May 1st, 2024|Football|2 Comments

2024 Blue-Gold Game Review: 25 Notes from the Spring Scrimmage, Plus Shields Hall Breaks Ground

Notre Dame wrapped up another edition of the Blue-Gold Game on Saturday inside a sunny but brisk Rock's House. The Blue team would go on to defeat the Gold side 28-21 with a late touchdown pass from Steve Angeli to Kris Mitchell being the game-winner. Here are notes on the spring game as we soon [...]

By |2024-04-20T19:54:18-04:00April 20th, 2024|Football|27 Comments

The 2024 Version of The Shirt Drops

"The tradition continues." Yes, it certainly does. On Friday night before the annual Blue-Gold Game on Notre Dame's campus, the 2024 edition of The Shirt was released. You can purchase the latest shirt HERE for $25.99 with proceeds going to The Shirt Charity for unexpected medical expensees for students and other student clubs, as well. [...]

By |2024-04-19T21:56:09-04:00April 19th, 2024|Football|13 Comments

NFL Draft Scouting Report: The 2024 Fringe Prospects

With the NFL Draft just around the corner we've profiled the prospects we believe have a great to decent shot of hearing their name called in Detroit. Today, we talk about the remaining players coming out of Notre Dame who might find it a bit more difficult as professionals. QB Sam Hartman 6-1 1/4, 212 [...]

By |2024-04-18T10:01:48-04:00April 18th, 2024|Football|6 Comments

Inside Denbrock’s Offense Part 4: Verts, Curls/Spacing, & HOSS

In this fourth part analysis of Mike Denbrock’s offense, I will describe the vertical stem plays: (4) Verticals, All Curl/Spacing and HOSS (Hitch-Outside Slot-Seam). In part 1, I described an overview of Denbrock’s offense. In part 2, I discussed the Yards-After-Catch (YAC) generating plays of Shallow, Drive and Dagger. In part 3, I analyzed the [...]

By |2024-04-15T19:13:02-04:00April 16th, 2024|Film Room, Football|8 Comments

Inside Denbrock’s Offense Part 3: Sail, Cross & Yankee

In this third part article previewing Mike Denbrock’s offense, I will describe the two main “flood” zone-killing plays: Sail and Cross. These are basically either a weak side or strong side stress of the defense. These plays seek to overload the defense with too many receivers near the same zones in order to create a [...]

By |2024-04-07T14:28:04-04:00April 9th, 2024|Film Room, Football|2 Comments

Scholarship Update: A Lack of High School Recruiting Significance

It's been a while since we provided a scholarship update for Fighting Irish football and as the weeks pass plenty of things keep evolving and changing in college football recruiting. Sometimes it's hard to keep up. Just 7 years after the December early signing period was created (and will now be moved up to the [...]

By |2024-04-07T14:27:25-04:00April 7th, 2024|Football, Recruiting|16 Comments
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