Notre Dame found itself amidst a frenzied Labor Day crowd on Monday night cheering on a rejuvenated Louisville program shaking off the shackles of the Petrino/VanGorder 2018 season. After the 1st quarter in a tight contest it looked like the Irish defense was lost which then bled over to the offense. The Irish did settle [...]
There was a time, not so long ago, where Notre Dame beating a Power 5 team - any Power 5 team - by 18 points on the road would've been cause for celebration, if not a parade. The two most talented Notre Dame teams of the Brian Kelly era prior to the 2016 debacle and [...]
Welcome to the Louisville Gameday Chat! In 2017 we switched to Slack, a very popular chat and collaboration tool, for our gameday chat. Slack boasts much better functionality and ease of use, and it also works waaaay better on mobile devices. Win-win! Reminder (or intro, if you’re new to it) on the ground rules: Real [...]
You'd think Brian VanGorder's stock couldn't get any lower after 2018, yet he's still coaching at 60 years old and became Bowling Green's defensive coordinator this off-season--a team the Irish will face in week 6, no less. The former Notre Dame defensive coordinator spent one devastatingly poor season at Louisville a year ago leaving behind [...]
What do projection systems like SP+ (newly re-named!) and FEI see for Notre Dame in 2019? A much more difficult schedule, an improving offense, and a defense that will hope its strength in the passing game helps it continue to be a top-10 unit. Transparently, this was intended to be a multi-part series, but hey, [...]
Notre Dame is set to open the season on Labor Day evening live from Louisville. As usual, it's been a long off-season and yet a pretty quiet one until August camp began and more news items started hitting the Irish landscape. Before the ball kicks off I wanted to recap some of the things going [...]
Aaaaaand... We're back, folks! It's been a loooong [checks calendar] eight months without college football. We're maybe not better than ever after the schlock-fest that opened the season this past weekend. (Can we really consider what Florida and Miami did "football"? And how on earth did Hawaii go -4 on turnover margin and still beat Arizona?) [...]
The 2009 Notre Dame football season marked the end of an era in South Bend. The Irish finished 6-6 on the field after a wild season which saw 10 one-possession games and their third consecutive year of 7-wins or less. Charlie Weis was fired by second-year AD Jack Swarbrick after Weis started his career by [...]
College Football kicked off this past Saturday night with a highly viewed Week 0 matchup between Florida and Miami that was as sloppy as it was entertaining. Another Power 5 conference team also got their season started way off in the island of Hawaii and didn't fare so well. As we head into the first [...]
This article has been in the works for a long time but keeping track of football cleats accurately in today's era where uniformity is thrown to the wind can be a fool's errand. Also, the majority of photographs either omit players' feet or are too far away get a good look at the cleats so [...]
We are mere hours away from the start of the 2019 college football season as week 0 kicks off on Saturday with a matchup between a pair of Florida programs. Therefore, it's time to unveil the pre-season 18 Stripes Top 20 poll. But first, let's take a look back at my pre-season rankings from a [...]
This will be our last practice report for the year as Wednesday was the final full practice viewing by the media before the season begins at Louisville. Accordingly, the Irish have transitioned from fall camp to preparations for the Cardinals which usually indicates the roster and depth chart are pretty solidified for the upcoming September [...]
Eleven measly little days until the Irish take the field for the first time since... uh... well, we won't talk about that. We're once again asking you, our beloved readers, for your opinions, projections, joy, saltiness, etc. for the upcoming season. We'll have this up for about a week and then write a summary of [...]
Notre Dame has finished up 12 sets of fall camp practices following a full media viewing workout inside the stadium on Saturday. As we head towards the home stretch of camp before the opener at Louisville here's the top story lines surrounding the Irish football team. The Receiving Corps is Thinned Out Bad injury news [...]
In my house, I have a box that is filled with Notre Dame memorabilia that is sentimental to me. Among those items are a College Gameday helmet from 2012, various free shirts from basketball games, and now a 33 Trucking hat. The hat reminded me about the turnaround the Irish had in 2017 and how [...]
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