Matthias Farley News & Notes
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Sleepers Into Stars: Brian Kelly’s Best Recruiting Hits For Notre Dame
Signing day 2017 finished with a flourish for Brian Kelly’s Fighting Irish, signing six players in the last two weeks after sending out a boat load of new offers while…
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Recapping Notre Dame’s 2015 Team Awards
On Friday night Notre Dame celebrated Team 127 with the annual Echoes event – aka the old Notre Dame football banquet. Â The yearly celebration is highlighted, of course, by handing…
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Notre Dame v. Pitt ’15: Shamrock Stickers
Notre Dame moved to 8-1 on the season with a 42-30 victory over Pitt. The Irish offense was explosive all day long with both the run and the pass and…
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Keivarae Russell To Work at Nickel in Spots
When Shaun Crawford went down with a torn ACL earlier this week, one of the few starting positions that was up for grabs this summer was reopened.
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Cornerback a Position of Strength for Notre Dame in ’15
The ineffectiveness of the Irish 2014 secondary, specifically the cornerback position, had less to do with talent and ability and more to do with lack of depth and experience. Heading…
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Notre Dame v. Syracuse ’14 – Shamrock Stickers
Notre Dame overcame a season-high five turnovers to remain undefeated with a 31-15 victory over Syracuse. The Irish were sloppy with the football, which they will need to clean up…
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#12 Matthias Farley – 2013 Top 25 Notre Dame Football Players
After three straight spots were filled on the offensive side of the ball, we move back over to the defense for our #12 player on our countdown of the top…
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Post Spring ’13 – Rating Notre Dame’s Position Units
With spring practice now behind us, we will rate the units according to a four tier rating system:  BCS Game Caliber, New Year’s Day Bowl Caliber, Bowl Game Caliber, Stay Home. While last…
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Replacing Notre Dame’s NFL Bound Talent
Eight former Notre Dame players who played significant roles in the Irish reaching the 2013 BCS Championship game are in Indianapolis this weekend for the NFL Combine. Â As their professional…
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Notre Dame’s Unsung Heroes of 12-0
Notre Dame has had plenty of marquee players along the way to its 12-0 regular season, but in order to pull off an undefeated regular season you need plenty of…
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Shamrock Stickers: USC ’12
The Irish are going to Miami. Notre Dame completed its miracle regular season with a 22-13 victory over arch rival USC. The Irish followed their blueprint for success to perfection…
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5 Things I Liked: Stanford ’12
Another week. Â Another win. Â Another list of a lot of things I liked seeing from our Fighting Irish. Â There were a lot of hiccups along the way on Saturday, but…
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Shamrock Stickers: Stanford ’12
On the strength of a goal-line stand that will go down in history the Irish remained undefeated on Saturday. Notre Dame is now bowl eligible at 6-0 after their 20-13 overtime…
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Troy Niklas to Tight End, Cam McDaniel to Corner, Other Moves
Notre Dame kicked off spring practice this week. Â Unfortunately this week was ridiculously busy so today I’m going to be going through some spring cleaning and catching up on all…
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The Overlooked: Class of ’11 Edition
Brian Kelly and staff reeled in a recruiting class on Wednesday in their first go round coaching the Fighting Irish. Mixed in with headliners like Aaron Lynch, Stephon Tuitt, and…
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Class of ’11 – Cliff’s Notes Edition – Defense
Notre Dame pulled in one of the best defensive classes in recent memory this year. Here’s a quick look at every who is expected to sign with the Irish today.…
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