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Jarron Jones Opens Up Recruiting, Considering Notre Dame
It’s been a little while since we got much good recruiting news, but Notre Dame received some good news this week when Jarron Jones, Rivals.com’s #7 DT in the country, decommited from Penn State and opened his recruiting back up after a recent visit to Notre Dame. Jones, a 6-5, 308 lb monster of a [...]
Best of the 2000′s -#6 Justin Tuck
Our countdown of the top 11 players of the last 11 rolls on today with our 6th ranked player – yet another player whose talent could have moved him up much higher on this list had it not been for some outside circumstances. Justin Tuck career summary Justin Tuck came to Notre Dame as a [...]
Manti Te’o Named to Bednarik Watch List
Earlier on Tuesday Dayne Crist and Michael Floyd were named to the Maxwell Award watch list and now a third Notre Dame player, Manti Te’o, was named to the Bednarik Award watch list heading into his junior season. The Bednarik Award is given annually to the best defensive player in college football by the Maxwell [...]
Crist, Floyd Named to Maxwell Watch List
A pair of Notre Dame seniors who Notre Dame fans hope connect early and often on the field this year, Dayne Crist and Michael Floyd, have been named to the Maxwell Award watch list heading into the 2011 season. Crist started the first nine games of the 2010 season before rupturing a patella tendon in [...]
Best of the 2000′s – #7 Shane Walton
We’re picking up our countdown of the top 11 players of the 2000′s from Notre Dame after the holiday break. We left off last week at #8 with Jimmy Clausen, but head over to the other side of the ball for the last lock down corner to pass through Notre Dame. In case you missed [...]
2011 Freshmen Numbers Assigned
This year’s freshmen have received their numbers that they will start their Notre Dame careers with. Here’s a quick look at who will be wearing what numbers and a little background on the numbers themselves. George Atkinson #4 (RB/WR) – Number 4 is also worn by starting cornerback Gary Gray (reminder, players can wear the [...]
An Early Look at Notre Dame’s 2011 Schedule
Being an independent for Notre Dame has it’s advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of Notre Dame’s football schedule is it can pretty much schedule anybody they want as long as it doesn’t interfere with another school’s conference slate. The disadvantage lies in the travel schedule with trips out West and to the South can be [...]
Best of the 2000′s – #8 Jimmy Clausen
Our countdown continues with perhaps a bit of a surprise. Not necessarily with the inclusion of the player, but with the ranking itself. Our #8 player on the countdown probably would have owned every meaningful passing record at Notre Dame if he stayed for four years, but with a three year body of work, Jimmy [...]
Best of the 2000′s – #9 Courtney Watson
UHND’s countdown of the top 11 Notre Dame players since 2000 continues today and we’re staying on the defensive side of the ball for a second straight day. Our #9 spot is filled by a high school running back who was the last stud linebacker for the Irish before Charlie Weis pulled off the recruiting [...]
Best of the 2000′s – Tom Zbikowski #10
Yesterday we launched our Best of the 2000′s series with our #11 ranked player, Julius Jones. Today our countdown continues with one of the more interesting athletes to come through Notre Dame in the last decade – Tom Zbikowski. Notre Dame career summary Tom Zbikowski, aka Tommy Z, aka Zibby, came to Notre Dame as [...]
Best of the 2000′s – Julius Jones #11
In Friday’s post about the top 10 players for Notre Dame in 2011, I eluded to a new series of posts that we’d be rolling out here at UHND over the next few weeks and today we’re kicking off our countdown of the top 11 players to play for Notre Dame over the last 11 [...]
Quinn’s Pro Career at a Crossroads
The last Notre Dame team to appear in a BCS Bowl game was the 2006 squad that suffered a defeat at the hands of the LSU Tigers in the Sugar Bowl. That team featured numerous pro prospects that were drafted into the NFL – Brady Quinn, Victor Abiamiri, and Trevor Laws among others. Being that [...]
John Turner Commitment Gives Notre Dame 11
Notre Dame picked up its 11th commitment in the recruiting class of 2012 on Sunday when instate safety prospect John Turner committed to the Irish just a few days after officially receiving an offer from Brian Kelly. Turner only received an offer from Notre Dame three days ago after performing well at Notre Dame’s latest [...]
An Early Look at Notre Dame’s Top 10 for ’11
Last year UHND and several other Notre Dame bloggers ranked the top 25 players on the Irish roster and there are plans for such an exercise again this year, but today we have an early look at the top 10 players on the Irish roster courtesy of Matt Fairchild of SportsCrack.com. Matt may be contributing [...]
Former Notre Dame LB Andre Jones Passes Away
Former Notre Dame linebacker and father of current Notre Dame sophomore wide receiver TJ Jones passed at the age of 42 on Wednesday after suffering a brain aneurysm. Jones, a starter on the 1988 Notre Dame National Championship squad, played outside linebacker for the Irish under Lou Holtz from 1987-1990 before having a brief career [...]
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