Golden Tate Articles & Blog Posts
Charlie Weis Presser Notes 10/20
Weis wrapped up the USC game and previewed this weekend’s Boston College game at his weekly Tuesday press conference. Here are some highlights and notes. Robby Parris had an ankle, knee, and hip x-rayed after Saturday’s loss and all came up negative. He also had an MRI on the knee and that came up as [...]
Initial Impressions – USC at Notre Dame
Notre Dame took another game down to the wire on Saturday, but for the second time this season came out on the wrong end of a thrilling game. Here are my initial thoughts from the Irish heartbreaking defeat. First off, I think everyone needs to give this team a lot of props for not giving [...]
Charlie Weis Presser Notes – Washington Preview
Charlie Weis met with the media for his weekly Tuesday press conference and addressed the health status of his team as well as their preparation for this weekend’s matchup with Washington. Jimmy Clausen and Armando Allen were both back at practice and were “ready to go”. Ben Turk has passed Eric Maust on the depth [...]
Initial Impressions – Notre Dame 24, Purdue 21
Jimmy Clausen came off the bench to lead Notre Dame to its second fourth quarter comeback in as many weeks Saturday night with a 24-21 victory over the Boilermakers. The Irish didn’t have the services of Armando Allen and had Clausen for a little less than half the game, but were able to make a [...]
Frank’s Purdue Preview
Notre Dame looks to improve to 3-1 and inch back towards the top 25 this weekend as they travel to West Lafayette. The Irish will limp into Ross Ade Stadium though with a number of injuries that could limit Notre Dame against a very dangerous Purdue team. Notre Dame on Offense The Irish offense is [...]
What to Watch For – Notre Dame at Purdue
Notre Dame travels to West Lafayette to take on the Purdue Boilermakers this weekend. Here’s a guide of what to watch for and a couple matchups to keep an eye on this weekend. How Purdue covers Golden Tate. How Purdue decides to cover Golden Tate is really going to set the tone for the game [...]
Lessons Learned – Michigan State at Notre Dame
Week three of the 2009 season taught us that the defense is still a mess, Jimmy Clausen is a tough kid, the wildcat is here to stay, and that the offense can move the ball without Michael Floyd. As always, this week’s Lesson Learned column takes a look at every we learned about the Irish [...]
Lessons Learned – Notre Dame at Michigan
Week two taught us a lot about the 2009 Fighting Irish and despite what most people might think – it wasn’t all bad. The 38-34 loss to Michigan stung and is very disheartening since it was a game Notre Dame could have easily won. But, there were still plenty of good things we learned about [...]
Friday Morning Flicks – Wolverine Hunting Edition
In an effort to get a bit more organized and bring everyone more great Fighting Irish content each week, we’ve been introducing a lot of new weekly columns around here lately. Today we introduce yet another – Friday Morning Flicks. Each Friday morning during the season, we’ll have a post with a bunch of Notre [...]
What To Watch For – Notre Dame at Michigan
Notre Dame travels to Ann Arbor to take on the hated Michigan Wolverines this weekend. Here’s a guide of what to watch for and a couple matchups to keep an eye on this weekend. We will be posting a “What to Watch For” article every Thursday during the season on weeks that Notre Dame is [...]
Lessons Learned – Nevada at Notre Dame
Welcome to another new weekly column we’ll be doing here at UHND – Lesson Learned. Each Monday following a game we’ll take one last look at what we learned about the Irish from the most recent game. Michael Floyd can’t be covered one on one Floyd didn’t get anywhere near the amount of attention that [...]
Notre Dame in This Year’s Herbie’s
ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit released his annual Pre-Season Herbie Awards on Monday and Notre Dame was pretty well represented. Here’s a quick look at how Herbstreit ranked the Irish. #7 Wide Receiver – Golden Tate #3 Tight End – Kyle Rudolph #3 Pocket Presence QB – Jimmy Clausen #2 True Freshman – Manti Te’o #2 Team [...]
Golden Tate on Biletnikoff Award Watch List
(Notre Dame, IN) – Notre Dame junior wide receiver Golden Tate was named to the pre-season Biletnikoff Award Watch List along with 36 of the nation’s other top wide receivers. Tate, coming off a breakout season as a sophomore, is expected to put up big numbers in what figures to be an improved Irish offense [...]
Blue/Gold Game Player Observations – Offense
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend this year’s Blue/Gold game for the first time in a couple years, but luckily I had a chance to review the video of the game on und.com this evening and will have a bunch of posts up tonight and tomorrow. First up, here are some observations of the offensive [...]
Island All Stars
There were quite a few heroes from last night’s Hawaii Bowl win. Here’s a look at who were the stars of the show for the Irish as they broke the 9 game bowl losing streak. Jimmy Clausen – Had by far his best game as a collegiate quarterback. Clausen finished 22 of 26 for 401 [...]
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