No alternate or one-off uniforms here. This is a series discussing the worst standard uniform changes in modern college football. The last two articles in this series covered monstrosities at Pittsburgh and Georgia Tech, both unique in their terribleness. It's not looking great for the league because we're staying in the ACC again today. The [...]
Our #2 Notre Dame Fighting Irish lost to the #5 Virginia Cavaliers (10-6), 15-10, in the ACC tournament semi-finals this past Friday in Charlotte. There isn’t any way to sugar coat this, it looked bad. The boys will have to refocus before the NCAA playoffs. It's an issue we unavoidably have to address before moving [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Commits are Coming Notre Dame added a flurry of commits recently, including edge rusher Aidan O'Neil (0.9405), tight end Titus Hawk (0.8933), quarterback Champ Monds (0.9132), and wide receiver Jackson Coleman (0.8700). That brings the class up to 14 players [...]
The Blue-Gold Game coming right during the NFL Draft was yet another example of how the college football calendar continues to frustrate with its key moments squished together. With the spring game in the rearview mirror, here's a review of the the NFL selection process from a week and a half ago. Notre Dame Draft [...]
Our #1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (10-1) beat the #6 Syracuse Orange, 16-11, this past weekend. This win gives the boys the #1 seed for the ACC Tournament. The Good I feel once again obligated to say a great game from Ricciardelli. He had 9 saves on the day, sitting at just under 50%. However, [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Gambling Man Texas Tech is in a bit of a pickle and I'm sure head coach Joey McGuire isn't thinking too much about Notre Dame joining a conference this week following reports that quarterback Brendan Sorsby has been checked into [...]
This moment will be seared into my memory forever. It's the first week of September 2001 and our freshmen class at St. Lawrence University is sitting outside on thin folding chairs listening to a bunch of faculty speaking during an orientation program. At one point, someone mentioned the youngest and oldest members of the freshmen [...]
The scoreboard read 41-40 on Saturday afternoon as the Blue team defeated the Gold team in the latest edition of the Notre Dame spring game. The complicated scoring system and lack of real tackling early on made the game difficult to watch at times, but that's par for the course with most spring games. Great [...]
For the 95th time in history the Notre Dame spring game is here. On Saturday afternoon from inside Notre Dame Stadium the Blue-Gold Game kicks off as Marcus Freeman enters a pivotal 5th season with the Irish. The weather looks like it'll cooperate with the forecast giving us temperatures in the low-to-mid 60's with some [...]
Our #1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's lacrosse (9-1, 2-1 ACC) dropped the #15 Duke Blue Devils (8-4, 0-3 ACC), 7-6. The score was a bit closer than we would like, but a road win that effectively eliminated a rival from the ACC and NCAA Tournaments is a satisfying win. What We Liked Thomas Ricciardelli [...]
The 91st edition of the NFL Draft begins this week from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The festivities will be taking place on the North Shore in downtown Pittsburgh next to the stadium no longer called Heinz Field. They'll also be using space across the river(s) at Point State Park, as well. This is the first time since [...]
I don't know exactly when this tradition began. At some point in recent years, Notre Dame has held an intra-squad scrimmage near the end of spring practice that has been branded as The Jersey Scrimmage. As the media has been shut out from most of spring practices in recent years--and the Blue-Gold Game simultaneous becomes [...]
Our #1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (8-1) beat the then-#1, now #3, North Carolina Tar Heels (10-2), 10-5, this past weekend. It was a well played game with many welcome surprises. Specialist Dominance Right off the opening face-off, Spano dominated at the face-off X, going 10-17 on the day. North Carolina’s Wambach came into the [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. 3 News Stories #1 Sun Belt, For Real This Time Louisiana Tech's 20-game football schedule for 2026 is no more. The school will officially be joining the Sun Belt effective July 1st and leaving the Conference USA after membership with the league since 2013. [...]
To paraphrase Frank the Tank from Old School, if you're reading this, you already know. The program has been boarded up. The promising freshman. The veteran point guard. The sharpshooting sophomore. Everything. We're at the Purcell Pavilion. I love you. Frank. The recent past It's not clear what's next for Notre Dame basketball after a [...]
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