2017 Opponent Update: Boston College Eagles
The Sgt. Slaughter meets Steve Ballmer person that is Boston College head coach Steve Addazio returns to Chestnut Hill for his 5th season but just barely. The Eagles won the Quick Lane Bowl against Maryland [...]
Uniform Concept: Clean Green Machine
This is our 8th uniform concept this off-season and this is my least favorite that has been published so far. I must stress so far. There is a particular futuristic uniform that is coming up [...]
2017 Opponent Update: Georgia Bulldogs
It's year two of the Kirby Smart era in Athens and the Georgia Bulldogs are in a weird place. They've gone 4 straight years without a divisional title in a really weak era of the [...]
Running Back Success Rate Review: What’s Wrong?
One of the things our writers discussed as I was putting together the 2010-16 run success rate for the Notre Dame running backs was what constituted success for other programs? How do we compare? What's [...]
Counting Stats Are For Dummies
Raise your hand if you’ve read an article this offseason citing a team’s points per game, yards per game, or NCAA ranks using those measures. The vast majority of reviews and previews, right? This is [...]
2017 Opponent Update: Temple Owls
It's an understatement to say that Notre Dame faces white hot pressure straight out of the gate this fall. The Irish had a pretty quiet spring which is almost always a good sign and today [...]
RB Success Rate: 2016 Says Goodbye to Explosiveness
No positional group escaped harsh criticism from the 4-8 garbage of a season Notre Dame put together in 2016. The run game in particular was accused of taking a hefty step back from the preceding [...]
Uniform Concept: Under the (Bright) Lights
If you're like me the 2011 "Under the Lights" throwback uniforms worn on the road at night versus Michigan are among the best uniforms in Notre Dame history. In fact, I would argue they may [...]
Notre Dame Draft Picks vs. Recruiting Ranks
In this most recent NFL draft, we saw the Cleveland Browns use a second round pick on 2014 signee Deshone Kizer, who was roughly a top 250 recruit. Compared to other Notre Dame draft picks over the [...]
RB Success Rate: 2015 & the Breath of Fresh Air
The 2015 season brought three new major runners to the field and in some ways none of them were expected to have major roles. C.J. Prosise successfully made the transition from receiver, DeShone Kizer would [...]
Uniform Concept: Irish Spirit
The Spirit football concept is designed for use in a future Shamrock Series game. Combining elements from the existing football uniform with color combinations and wordmarks from the basketball and baseball teams, the Spirit football [...]
NFL Draft Recap, Look Ahead to 2018
The 2017 NFL Draft is officially in the books and it was a humbling weekend for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish who had to experience one more aftershock from a poor football season and a [...]
NFL Draft 1st Round Happens Today
The NFL Draft has been going on since 1936 and another edition begins today with the first round. Things kick off at 8 PM ET on either ESPN (are there enough people left!??) or the [...]
RB Success Rate: 2014 Tries to Grind It Out
We're now on to the 5th year under Brian Kelly in this review and so far we saw a poor 2010 season, tremendous 2011, pretty good 2012, and the 2013 season bottomed out almost to [...]
Spring Game Review
In a score line no one will remember or frankly paid attention to the gold team beat the blue team 27-17 on Saturday afternoon in the 88th annual Notre Dame spring game. As usual, a [...]
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