2022 National Signing Day Review: All Quiet on the Western Front
A Shift in the Landscape Well, all quiet on all fronts, really... Once again, as has been the case since the early signing period was instituted a few cycles ago, Notre Dame's recruiting class was all [...]
Reviewing the Redshirts: Defense
With a veteran defense that came back for 2021 there wasn't a lot of opportunity for Notre Dame's freshmen to make an impact. In total, only the top rated defensive recruit from the class (linebacker [...]
Reviewing the Redshirts: Offense
Notre Dame had 8 players on offense from the 2021 recruiting class take a redshirt during the team's run to the Fiesta Bowl. One player was starting from day one prior to an injury, another [...]
Running Back Success Rate 2021 Review
What if I told you that with one of the best running backs of this recent Notre Dame era, with one of the most fun running backs in school history, with a tailback with such [...]
18S Top 20 Poll: Recapping Another Much Too Short Season
I'm a broken record on this subject, I know. Every year it pains me how short the college football season is and now we have 222 days from today until the 2022 season kicks off [...]
Heart Stoppers & Hail Marys 3.0-An Introduction
Confession time; when I was growing up I was immensely more into college basketball than college football. That allure almost certainly came from March Madness and monitoring those games during the day when I went [...]
National Championship Game Preview: It Still Means More
We are set to conclude the 8th edition of the College Football Playoffs this Monday night live from Indianapolis as the powers-that-be finally decided a place outside of a warm weather region could host the [...]
Closing the Book: Final Look at 2021 Preseason Predictions
What a year. There was a whole lot of weirdness, preseason top ten teams falling on their faces repeatedly, lots of the elite suddenly looking vulnerable, the SEC starting bowl season 1-5... Did you know [...]
Thoughts on Losing the Iconic John Madden
John Madden passed away on December 28th at the age of 85 leaving behind of the most memorable and lasting impacts on football in American history. Although he stopped coaching in the NFL (1978) before [...]
2022 Depth Chart Sneak Preview
You can't keep your boy down. After mulling over taking the week off to let the Fiesta Bowl loss simmer before coming back to writing I'm here to offer some brief thoughts on the 2022 [...]
Fiesta Bowl Review: Collapse & a Challenging Off-Season to Come
When the score reached 14-0 in favor of Notre Dame I quite literally bounded to the bathroom past the rest of my family working on a jigsaw puzzle in the nearby room. My instinct was [...]
Defeated: Fiesta Bowl Instant Reaction
If Notre Dame couldn't get this one, against this team, with the momentum they had coming in, then it's easy to self-flagellate and think the Irish are just never going to win one of these [...]
Fiesta Bowl Preview: Clash with the Cowboys in the Desert
This Saturday afternoon Notre Dame will be playing in its 26th major bowl game (including the 2012 BCS National Championship Game) and is making its 6th appearance in the Fiesta Bowl. After winning their first [...]
Lincoln Riley in Los Angeles & Now the Rivalry with USC Heats Up Again
I started the bones of this article back in November a few days after Lincoln Riley packed his bags for USC and then Brian Kelly decided Baton Rouge needed to be his new home so [...]
Five Wide Fullbacks: Baby Come Back, You Can Blame It All On Me
Welcome back to America's greatest question and answer segment Five Wide Fullbacks. This week we'll tackle those silly kids opting out of bowl games, plus the possible return of a curmudgeon-y assistant coach, Marcus Freeman's [...]
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