Frank Vitovitch
4776 articles
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Notre Dame Post Game 6-Pack: Defense Shines in Win Over Michigan
Notre Dame kicked off their 2018 season last night with a 24-17 victory over the #14 ranked Michigan Wolverines. Fueled by their defense the Irish jumped out to…
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Notre Dame Football Highlights: Irish Top Wolverines in ’18 Opener
Notre Dame opened its 2018 season with a 24-17 victory over the 14th ranked Michigan Wolverines in front of a crowd decked out in green. The Irish jumped…
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Frankie V’s Prediction: Notre Dame vs. Michigan ’18
The long national nightmare known as summer is over and football season is finally here. We finally get to see our Fighting Irish in action in just over…
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Notre Dame Football Season Opener 6-Pack with ND Insider
Technically it is still the pre-season on the eve of Notre Dame and Michigan kicking off their 2018 seasons. Yeah other teams have played already, but does the…
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Shaun Crawford Injury Impact: Notre Dame Secondary Depth Stretched
Notre Dame almost made it through an entire off-season without too much drama other than the Dexter Williams suspension speculation. That streak came to a crashing halt on…
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On the Record: Predicting Notre Dame Football’s 2018 Record
We’re just a couple days away from the official start of the 2018 Notre Dame football season and in no time we’ll know just what the Irish look…
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Projecting Notre Dame Football’s Depth Chart for Michigan
Notre Dame and Michigan are engaging in a bit of gamesmanship this week with neither team releasing an official depth chart. This is not uncommon and happens all…
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Michigan Game Will Set Tone for Notre Dame Football Season
Sports are full of hyperbole. A lot of times its overblown. In this case though, it’s not hyperbole to say that the Michigan game on Saturday will set…
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Brian Kelly Still Vague on Notre Dame RB Dexter Williams’s Status
Brian Kelly knew the question was coming on Tuesday and he was ready for it. Weird right? A college head coach knowing a difficult question would come and…
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Notre Dame – Michigan Line Moving, Irish Now Favored
All summer long Notre Dame was listed as a home underdog to Michigan on almost every betting service. Days before the kickoff of the 2018 season with the…
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Notre Dame Football Top 25 for 2018: The Top 5
We’ve come to the end of our countdown of the top 25 Notre Dame football players in 2018. And we are about to spend a lot of time…
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Notre Dame Football Top 25 for 2018: #6-10
We have reached the top 10 in our countdown of the top 25 football players on the Notre Dame roster in 2018. We’re now getting into the area…
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Can Notre Dame Avoid Another November Collapse in 2018?
Notre Dame has entered November firmly in the playoff discussion in three of the last four years. In all three of those seasons the Irish ended the year…
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Notre Dame Football Top 25 for 2018: #11-15
After a bit an interruption, our countdown of the top 25 players on the Notre Dame roster continues with numbers 11-15. Today we’ll take a look at the…
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Notre Dame K Justin Yoon Nails 62 Yard Field Goal in Practice
We may be a day late on this because of a quick work trip over the Atlantic that stole away some free time this week, but we still…
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Notre Dame Football’s 2018 Top 25 Players: #16-20
We continue our countdown of the top 25 players on the Notre Dame roster in 2018. Ranked between #16-20 we have a player who has top 5 talent…
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Notre Dame RB Commit Kyren Williams Makes Highlight Reel Play
Notre Dame class of 2019 running back commitment Kyren Williams made one of the plays of the week last week. The kind of play that regardless of his…
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Notre Dame Football’s 2018 Top 25 Players: #21-25
Today we are kicking off our rundown of the Top 25 players for Notre Dame football in 2018. Like last year you may have seen a similar rundown…
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8 Key Backups for Notre Dame Football in 2018
The difference between top 20 vs. top 10 and top 10 vs. playoff contender teams often isn’t their top 22 players – it’s in their depth and their…
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Notre Dame Unveils Yankee Inspired Uniforms for Shamrock Series
Notre Dame released their uniforms for the 2018 Shamrock Series in Yankee Stadium on Thursday and the unis pay homage to the house they will be playing in. …
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Notre Dame Considered a Playoff Favorite in 2018?
A few weeks ago I wrote about how ESPN currently is favoring the Irish in every single game in 2018. Well, it seems like ESPN is awfully high…
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Who Will Start at Rover for Notre Dame in 2018?
There are very few starting positions up for grabs as Notre Dame heads into its second week of practice for 2018 fall camp. One of those positions, though…
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Notre Dame Fall Camp: Video from the 1st Day in (Shoulder) Pads
The full pads were not on just yet, but shoulder pads were for Day 3 of Notre Dame fall camp for 2018. It’s near impossible to take too…
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Jafar Armstrong: Notre Dame Football’s Next CJ Prosise?
When Notre Dame’s running back depth chart was decimated by dismissals and early departures for the NFL, the Notre Dame coaching staff had to look to its current…
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Notre Dame ESPN Gameday History and All-Time Record
Notre Dame has been in contests in front of the Gameday crew 34 times since the show first aired on the site of game – Florida State’s visit…
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ESPN College GameDay Coming to Notre Dame for Michigan Game
It’s official. ESPN is coming to Notre Dame for week one of the 2018 season to see the Irish and Wolverines battle under the lights of Notre Dame…
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Brian Kelly Offers Little Clarification on Status of Dexter Williams
Brian Kelly knew the question was coming yesterday. It was only a matter of when. “What is the status of Dexter Williams for week one” has been one…
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Notre Dame Opens 2018 Season #11 in Coaches Poll
Notre Dame is starting the 2018 season right where they left off in 2017 – at #11 in the polls. Well at least in the Coaches Poll anyway,…
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A Look at Notre Dame Football’s New Starters in 2018
Notre Dame returners a lot of starters this fall. In fact, that alone is the number reason for optimism in South Bend for year nine of the Brian…
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How Much Will Phil Jurkovec Play for Notre Dame in 2018?
When the new redshirt rule was announced for the 2018 season, one thing became immediately clear for Notre Dame football. Freshman quarterback Phil Jurkovec will play for Notre…
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ESPN Favoring Notre Dame in Every Football Game in 2018
Heading into the 2018 season, ESPN has projected Notre Dame to win 10 football games. Ok, 9.9 wins but we’re rounding here. Despite the 10 win projection though,…
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Did Derek Mason Really Throw Shade at Notre Dame?
Not that Notre Dame needed any bulletin board material in order to make short order of perennial SEC cellar dweller and doormat Vanderbilt, but they got it on…
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Two Notre Dame Commits See Their Stock Skyrocket
Notre Dame commitments Kyle Hamilton and Andrew Kristofic have long been considered vastly underrated by Notre Dame fans and recruiting reporters. Those feelings were validated last week when…
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Will Notre Dame Football Have a 1,000 Yard Rusher in 2018?
On Sunday we took a look into who will lead Notre Dame in receiving yards in 2018 and came to the conclusion that Chase Claypool would lead the…
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Who Will Lead Notre Dame in Receiving in 2018?
With so many returning starters for Notre Dame in 2018 there aren’t as many huge, looming questions as there are some seasons, but there is still plenty of…
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Will Notre Dame Fullfill BYU Home Game Obligation After All?
Back in 2010 Notre Dame and BYU agreed to a 6 game series as college football’s two most prominent independent institutions partnered to boost each other’s schedules. After…
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Notre Dame At 85 Scholarships: LB David Adams Retires
Notre Dame was hovering above the NCAA mandated limit of 85 scholarships for a while now. Until Wednesday that is. Sophomore David Adams announced his retirement late Tuesday…
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2018 Notre Dame Coaching Staff
Notre Dame’s coaching staff same some turnover during the 2018 off-season with Mike Elko leaving Notre Dame for a big pay day in a lateral move after just…
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Zeke Correll Commits, Adds to Notre Dame’s OL Recruiting Haul
Notre Dame continued its recruiting run on Monday with another big time commitment along the offensive line. Zeke Correll – a 4-star OL from Cincinnati, Ohio – committed…
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Numbers Assigned to 2018 Notre Dame Football Freshmen
We are one step closer to football season this weekend with freshman officially reporting to campus to begin their collegiate careers. With their arrival, we now also know…
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4-star LB Osita Ekwonu Commits to Notre Dame
Notre Dame’s already loaded defensive class for 2019 got a little more loaded on Thursday afternoon when 4-star LB Osita Ekwonu committed to the Irish. Ekwonu, a top…
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Can’t Miss Road Trips from Future Notre Dame Football Schedules
The 2018 Notre Dame football schedule offers Irish fans plenty of options for interesting road trips. From Notre Dame’s first trip to Blacksburg (Virginia Tech) to a November…
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More Roster Clarity for Notre Dame: Deon McIntosh to Transfer
As Notre Dame still sits at 86 on the scholarship count, we know one player who definitely won’t be added back on the roster in 2018. Deon McIntosh…
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Notre Dame-Navy in Primetime NOT What Irish Schedule Needed
I’ve been on record here as stating that what Notre Dame has intentionally done with their end of the season schedule this fall makes no sense whatsoever and that they…
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Notre Dame Lands #1 Ranked P Jay Bramblett
Punter recruiting is never very exciting, but if you need a punter, you might as well get the best punter in the country and that is what Notre…
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Notre Dame’s Troy Pride Runs Blazing 40 Yard Dash
Notre Dame junior cornerback is an accomplished collegiate track athlete in his spare time. The speed that’s made him an asset in the Notre Dame track and field…
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Mystery, Intrigue Surround Running Back for Notre Dame
When Josh Adams made his decision to leave Notre Dame early for the NFL, the Irish depth chart looked well equipped to handle the early departure. Things haven’t…
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Hype Building for Notre Dame Safety Alohi Gilman
Despite all of the progress made by the 2017 Notre Dame defense, the one position group that fell short of expectations was safety. And those expectations were pretty low…
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Notre Dame Building Another Elite Defensive Recruiting Class
Defensive recruiting during the tenure of former defensive coordinator Brian Vangorder was generally pretty terrible. The only thing he was less effective at than stoping opposing offenses was…
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NaNa Osafo-Mensah Commits to Notre Dame!
Notre Dame picked up one of its biggest commitments for the class of 2019 thus far on Saturday afternoon at a major position of need when NaNa Osafo-Mensah…