88th Annual Blue Gold Game Preview
The 88th edition of the Blue Gold Game takes place this weekend. You can watch the compact 2-hour performance beginning at 12:30 PM ET on NBC Sports Network. We’ve remarked that this has been the [...]
Recruiting Update: Blue Gold Game Visitors
Notre Dame will take the field tomorrow for the first time in 2017 for the annual Blue-Gold game, and finally wipe away the last vestiges of the second Season That Never Happened of the last decade. [...]
The 28 Must Watch Out of Conference Games
Notre Dame is in the last week of spring practice with the Blue Gold Game coming up this Saturday afternoon. We're now one step closer to real football. While on a (too) short vacation I [...]
Uniform Concept: 2017 Under Armour Catalog
Notre Dame is heading into the 4th of its 10-year contract with Under Armour and so far the football team has received minimal changes to its uniforms. Of course, 2014 saw the UA logo placed [...]
Uniform Concept: Irish Nights
We're now on our 4th uniform concept of the off-season and we've quickly arrived at the darkest of shade as part of the design. Yes, it's our first black uniform concept. Before discussing the actual [...]
RB Success Rate: 2013 & Coming Down to Earth
In our last installment the 2012 season saw a very rugged yet mostly positive run success as the Irish raced out to a 12-0 regular season. Then, the National Championship Game happened, an internet hoax [...]
Creating a Salary Cap for College Football
One of the off-season ideas I've been kicking around is creating a salary cap for college football. I'm not coming at this from a "pay the players" megaphone but rather to create a NFL-type of [...]
RB Success Rate: 2012’s Battle Between Riddick & Wood
Our previous installment in this series recognized how Jonas Gray had a year for the ages seemingly out of nowhere and today we look at the running back success rate for Notre Dame's surprising run [...]
Uniform Concept: Four Horsemen Fauxback
Notre Dame doesn't lack for throwback uniform options. However, the school has such a long and storied history that it opens up the door to a multitude of avenues for fauxback uniforms. Today, we're headed [...]
5 Topics to Discuss Half Way Through Spring
We're just about half way through spring practice for the football team, it's been quiet, and it's bound to stay quiet. Two long breaks from school and March Madness taking up the bulk of the [...]
RB Success Rate: Gray’s Historic 2011
The Notre Dame game run game in 2010 took turns switching between decent and below average. Heading into 2011 the loss of a couple seniors brought plenty of question marks. However, no one could have [...]
Uniform Concept: Irish Whiskey Sunrise
Our second uniform concept for Notre Dame football had one of the more adventurous beginnings. The original idea that gave way to this final design was to put together something that combined 4 or 5 [...]
Uniform Concept: Golden Dome Icy Whites
In early March I had the pleasure of going through Clint Glaze's definitive Notre Dame Uniform History website chronicling over 100 years of sartorial splendor. At the end of that post I mentioned that we'd [...]
Practice Report: First Full Open Workout
The Irish were back on the field for their 5th practice of spring this Saturday with full viewing from the media. Notre Dame spent a portion of the workout indoors and then headed outside for [...]
RB Success Rate: Humbling Beginnings of 2010
Today I'm beginning a series that will look at the run success rate for the Notre Dame running backs since Brian Kelly arrived in 2010. I'll look at each year, 7 posts in all, starting [...]
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