The Notre Dame football staff added to it's 2022 offensive line haul on Saturday night when center/guard prospect Ashton Craig verbally committed to the Fighting Irish. The 6'5"/280-pounder out of Lawrenceburg, IN is the 16th player to join Notre Dame's recruiting class of 2022 -- a class which currently ranks #2 in the nation behind [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. In the News Raiders defensive end and former Penn State star Carl Nassib became the first active NFL player to come out as gay. The College Football Playoff took its first formal steps to using a 12-team playoff in the future. Wisconsin will be [...]
The new early signing period for college football which lands in mid-to-late December each year changed the way program's close their recruiting classes. For Notre Dame like most team's, it's meant taking commits much earlier and nearly wrapping up each class before football season even begins. There are exceptions of course, but that's largely how [...]
Ever since last year's schedule got jumbled up and rearranged I purposely stayed away from thinking too much about the 2021 Notre Dame opponents. Well, except for that time in early January when I looked at the likely quarterbacks the Irish would face (Part 1 & Part 2) as a bit of a warning of [...]
Notre Dame football got one step closer to filling out its elite linebacker haul of 2022 today when linebacker Niuafe "Junior" Tuihalamaka verbally committed to the Fighting Irish. The 6'2"/235-pounder out of Mission Hills, CA is the 15th player to join Notre Dame's recruiting class of 2022 -- a class which currently ranks #2 in [...]
Confession time: I don't hate Charlie Weis. I never did, and absent some story surfacing about heinous behavior of his, I'm sure I never will. This isn't necessarily a popular take among Notre Dame football fans. Weis, after all, was the last of three (four, if you count the week-long George O'Leary era) failed football [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. In the News Have you bought Arizona State football stock? You may look to sell as the Sun Devils are reportedly facing some serious allegations of recruiting violations. Dan Wetzel goes hard after Bo Schembechler as an ugly situation at Michigan continues to grow [...]
There's never been the amount of hype, attention, derision, opinion, exploitation, player rights struggles, sensationalism, and stodgy North American tradition mixed together into one explosive powder keg quite like the teenage years of hockey player Eric Lindros. You may remember Lindros on the Flyers in the 1990's, the concussions, or even the draft snub of [...]
It's the return of the world famous Five Wide Fullbacks. The layout is simple. Five questions and five honest answers. Today, we're focusing on the hog mollies. Is the recent transfer in from Marshall good enough, will the transfer market burn players in the end, updates on Jarrett Patterson, and more! Plus, are allowed to [...]
Well, that escalated quickly. This past Wednesday a handful of reports surfaced that a committee was working on a plan to expand the College Football Playoff and by the early afternoon on Thursday, June 10th the CFP Working Group came out with details on a proposal that would enlarge the post-season to 12 teams. This [...]
Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff. In the News The game against Wisconsin at Lambeau Field has been rescheduled for the opener in 2026. Alabama extended this plucky up and coming coach Nick Saban to a deal through 2028 so hooray we have at least 8 more years of this. [...]
After the smashing success of our 2018 World Cup Preview we now bring you perhaps the second most important international soccer tournament preview. More footy! *** A year late and after a threat of cancellation due to the Covid-19 pandemic we will finally witness the 16th edition of the UEFA European Football Championship this summer. [...]
Welcome back to the Odyssey. As always, you can click here to read all parts of the journey covered so far. Last time, we took a look at the 2001 Pac-10 season. Today, we're going to take a look at the 2001 Big 12 season. This conference has many heavy hitters; with defending National Champions, [...]
This offseason we’ll be breaking down the performance of each unit – passing and rushing offense and defense – with a look ahead to 2021 and what this means for the Irish. Next is the Notre Dame passing game, which overachieved in Ian Book's final year thanks to a mini-leap at QB, a veteran receiving [...]
The board has been fairly quiet recently, but with the NCAA recruiting dead period ending last week on June 1st, expect that not to be the case over the next few weeks. Notre Dame has already starting bringing recruits to South Bend, holding the Irish Invasion this past weekend mostly to get a jump on [...]
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