Frank Vitovitch
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Frank Vitovitch
Frank Vitovitch has been Co-Owner and Editor in Chief of UHND.com since joining forces with Kyle Flavin in 1999. Since that time, he has written over 2,000 articles covering Notre Dame football, recruiting, and basketball. He also works with all staff and external writers on all articles published on UHND.com.
Frank's love for Notre Dame football started at a young age watching Rocket Ismail give opposing coaches ulcers in the late 1980's. By day Frank works in marketing and holds a degree in Digital Media from Drexel University.
Frank's work has been cited by online/print editions of NBC Sports, ESPN, and Sports Illustrated and has been quoted on air by ESPN's Collin Cowherd. He's conducted interviews with Notre Dame legends Rocket Ismail, Randy Kinder, Lee Becton, Reggie Brooks, Michael Stonebreaker, and Ned Bolcar among others over his 20+ years of covering Notre Dame football. He's also been published in the print edition of USA Today Sports Weekly and the USA Today College Football Preview multiple times.
Other Published Works/Citations for Frank
Three Reasons Notre Dame Will Beat Alabama - USA Today
Notre Dame Suspends WR Kevin Stepherson, RB C.J. Holmes Indefinitely - Bleacher Report
Notre Dame / Ohio State Fiesta Bowl Preview - Eleven Warriors
Brace Yourself: The Fighting Irish are Relevant Again - Sports on Earth
Interviews with the Enemy: A Q&A with Frank Vitovitch of UHND - Yahoo! Sports
Five Good Minutes: Notre Dame Football Preview With UHND.com - BC Interruption
Vicious Electronic Questioning with UHND - MGO Blog
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Notre Dame Basketball Knocks Off #14 Florida State: Highlights
Notre Dame snapped a four game losing streak earlier this week with a win on Wake Forest. Saturday night the Irish made it back to back wins with…
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The State of Notre Dame Football: Q&A with Blue & Gold Illustrated
With Signing Day all wrapped up and weeks until spring football, we’ve hit one of the dreaded lull periods on the football calendar. This year, however, there has…
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Notre Dame Basketball Ends Skid, Tops Wake Forest: The Highlights
Notre Dame ended their four game losing streak on Tuesday night with a much needed home win over Wake Forest. Despite trailing at half-time, Notre Dame rallied in…
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Notre Dame LB David Adams Senior Year Highlights
National Signing Day was less than a week ago and while Notre Dame is already in full on class of 2018 mode, there’s a still a lot of…
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Recapping A Wildly Successful Notre Dame Signing Day
Signing Day has been more of a time cringe than a time to celebrate for Notre Dame fans over the last few years. Last year the Irish missed…
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Watch Jeremiah Owusu Interrupt Brian Kelly’s Presser to Commit to Notre Dame
Notre Dame staged some theatrics on Wednesday during Brian Kelly’s annual Signing Day Press Conference. Jeremiah Owusu, a hybrid safety/linebacker called head coach Brian Kelly to let the…
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Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah Signs with Notre Dame!
Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly pulled off some theatrics at his Signing Day Press Conference Wednesday. Kelly’s phone rang as he addressed the media and the head…
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Notre Dame Gets a Pass Rusher: Kofi Wardlow Signs with Irish!
National Signing Day started off on a sour note for Notre Dame with cornerback Russ Yeast sticking with his Louisville commitment, but the Irish have since landed three…
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DE Recruit Myron Tagovailoa-Amosa Signs with Notre Dame!
Notre Dame is officially one for two on National Signing Day 2017. The Irish added defensive lineman Myron Tagovailoa-Amosa Wednesday afternoon when the Hawaiian native signed with Notre…
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Avery Davis: Notre Dame’s Most Important Offensive Recruit in ’17
Notre Dame is in the process of signing some serious offensive talent in the class of 2017. All American Brock Wright is already on campus. Fellow All American…
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Harry Hiestand Strikes Again: Notre Dame Lands Another Stellar OL Class
Harry Hiestand isn’t going to jump into any pools to win a recruit over. He isn’t going to have a sleepover at a recruits house. And he isn’t…
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Notre Dame Starts NSD on Sour Note, Russ Yeast Signs with Louisvillle
The faxes machines are still warming up around the country on National Signing Day 2017, but the Irish have already lost one of the few battles there were…
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Jalen Harris Sticks with Arizona, Notre Dame Down to 4
Earlier today we posted the remaining big board for Notre Dame featuring five prospects. Tonight we’re down to the final four after defensive end recruit Jalen Harris decided…
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2017 Notre Dame Football Recruiting Commitment List
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Notre Dame Football Recruiting: Who’s Left on Notre Dame’s Board?
Notre Dame lost two players on its recruiting board on Monday after gaining two new commitments on Sunday night. With Signing Day 24 hours away, Notre Dame is…
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Notre Dame Basketball Drops 3rd in Row, Loses to Duke: The Highlights
Notre Dame spotted Duke an early lead on Monday and was never able to fully recover. The Irish feel behind early and trailed by 12 at the half…
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Jalen Harris Has Great Notre Dame Visit, Decision Today?
Notre Dame desperately wants to add a pass rusher to this year’s class and their last chance to do so could be Jalen Harris. The Arizona native and…
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Jafar Armstrong Gives Notre Dame an Upgrade
When Notre Dame lost five players from the class of 2017 over the course of the season and into the off-season, a round of late offers went flying…
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Perfect Fit: Jordan Genmark Heath Commits to Notre Dame
After a month of decommits and dwindling recruiting class rankings, Notre Dame desperately needed some good news on the recruiting front with less than a week until Signing…
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Notre Dame Basketball Falls to UVA Again: The Highlights
Notre Dame came up short against a ranked opponent again on Tuesday night dropping a lopsided contest to #12 Virginia 71-54 at Purcell Pavilion. The #14 Fighting Irish were…
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Notre Dame Cooks’d Again: Tre Norwood to Oklahoma
Former Notre Dame assistant coach Kerry Cooks strikes again. Tre Norwood was considered one of the best bets for Notre Dame among last weekend’s five official visitors who…
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Notre Dame Recruits on their 1/20 Weekend Visits
We’ve already posted about the recruiting visit of 3-star safety Evan Fields earlier today, but as we wait for more news on this weekend’s official visitors, here’s a…
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Looks Like Evan Fields Enjoyed His Notre Dame Recruiting Visit
Notre Dame is wrapping up one of the most important recruiting weekends in this recruiting cycle this morning. As we all wait for any official news on commitments…
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Notre Dame Basketball Blows Out Syracuse: The Highlights
Notre Dame rebounded nicely from their first conference loss of the season on Saturday afternoon with a 84-66 victory over Syracuse in front of a home crowd at…
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Previewing Notre Dame Recruiting’s YUGE 1/20 Weekend
With National Signing Day less than two weeks away, Notre Dame is charging towards the finish line with a lot of open spots available and a lot of…
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Notre Dame Basketball Report: Irish Jump to 15th in Rankings
Another promising week of consistency for the Notre Dame men’s basketball team resulted in their elevation to the 15th spot in both the AP and Coaches’ polls. The…
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Notre Dame Recruiting: ’17 Big Board Remaining Wide Receivers
National Signing Day 2017 is just around the corner and the newly overhauled Notre Dame coaching staff has been hitting the road and turning over every leaf to…
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Notre Dame Basketball Takes Out Virginia Tech: The Highlights
Notre Dame stayed perfect in conference play Saturday afternoon with a 76-71 victory over Virginia Tech that pushed the Irish into first place as the league’s lone unbeaten…
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Notre Dame Still Perfect in ACC with Win over Miami: The Highlights
Notre Dame kept their record in ACC play unblemished on Thursday night in Miami with a 67-62 win over the Hurricanes. The Irish overcame a sluggish start to…
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DelVaughn Alexander Unofficially Rounds out Notre Dame Staff
Notre Dame had one more opening on it’s 2017 coaching staff that has now been reportedly filled. Notre Dame is set to hire DelVaughn Alexander sometime between now…
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Brian Kelly Giving Up Notre Dame Play Calling Duties a Big Deal
When Mike Denbrock left Notre Dame to become the offensive coordinator on Luke Fickell’s first staff at Cincinnati, we heard a lot about how Denbrock was going to…
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Notre Dame Football Recruiting: Commits “Trust the Process”
Notre Dame’s class of 2017 sprung another leak on Monday with the decommitment of Paulson Adebo. Next to Donovan Jeter, it was the biggest of the now four…
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Notre Dame Must Unleash Dexter Williams in 2017
The struggles of the Notre Dame offense were at times exaggerated in 2016. The Irish offense, for all of the criticism it received, still averaged 30.9 points a…
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Notre Dame Basketball Upsets #9 Louisville: The Highlights
Steve Vasturia didn’t use up all of his late game heroics on New Year’s Eve. For the second straight game, Vasturia nailed a huge bucket to propel the…
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Notre Dame Can Restore Tight End U Moniker in ’17
Notre Dame had one hell of a run of tight ends from 2005-2014 with six consecutive starting tight ends getting drafted. Five of of the six were even…
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8 Notre Dame Defenders to Watch in Mike Elko’s Defense
Mike Elko is still settling in as the new defensive coordinator at Notre Dame, but it’s not too soon to start thinking about players who will benefit the…
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Notre Dame Basketball Report: Irish Start ACC Play with a Bang!
The arrival of 2017 coincides with another rise in the polls for the Notre Dame men’s basketball. That’s courtesy of a overtime road victory at ACC rival Pittsburgh…
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Tommy Rees Dispels Rumors He is Returning to Notre Dame
Sunday afternoon Keith Arnold of NBC Sports reported that the return of former Notre Dame quarterback Tommy as quarterbacks coach was “imminent”. A few hours later, however, Rees…
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Notre Dame Makes Top 5 for 4-Star ATH Connor Wedington
Notre Dame offered 4-star athlete Connor Wedington last month after the versatile playmaker decided to decommit from Washington. The Irish are now in Wedington’s top 5 and will…
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Notre Dame Commit Brock Wright Receives High Praise from NFL Legend
Notre Dame tight end commitment Brock Wright has been putting in some WORK at the Under Armour All-American Bowl practices this week. So much so that NFL legend…
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Highlights from Notre Dame’s Thrilling Win Over Pitt
The fireworks came early on New Year’s Eve for the Notre Dame men’s basketball team. The Irish won an overtime thriller over Pitt in their ACC season opener…
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Report: Notre Dame Adding Chip Long as Offensive Coordinator
Earlier today I wrote that all signs and logic pointed to Jeff Quinn being the obvious choice as Notre Dame’s next offensive coordinator. Well, it wouldn’t be 2016…
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Pressure is On Brian Kelly to Find Offensive Coordinator
With Thursday’s news that Mike Denbrock is leaving Notre Dame to become the offensive coordinator for Cincinnati, the pressure just dialed up on Brian Kelly. Notre Dame’s embattled…
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What Does Mike Elko Have to Work With on Notre Dame DL?
New Notre Dame defensive coordinator Mike Elko has his work cut out for him with the Irish defense but nowhere is that more apparent than the defensive line.…
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Mike Denbrock Leaving Notre Dame for Cincinnati
Tuesday night news broke that Mike Denbrock was leaving Notre Dame to be the Offensive Coordinator at Cincinnati only to be refuted early Wednesday. Multiple sources are now…
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Latest Brian Kelly NFL Rumors Don’t Add Up
ProFootballWeekly created some click bait a little buzz on Thursday with a post making it sound as if Brian Kelly was desperately trying to find any NFL team…
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Update: Conflicting Reports on Mike Denbrock’s Status at Notre Dame
Despite reports late Tuesday night by Sports Illustrated’s Pete Thamel that Mike Denbrock was leaving Notre Dame for Cincinnati, conflicting reports have surfaced from 247Sports Wednesday that no…
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Notre Dame Staff Dealt A Blow: Mike Denbrock Reportedly Leaving
The winds of upheaval continue to swirl outside the Gug at Notre Dame this off-season. According to Sports Illustrated’s Pete Thamel, Mike Denbrock is reportedly leaving Notre Dame…
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Notre Dame & Purdue Trying to Get Back on Schedule
Notre Dame and Purdue didn’t play in 2015 for the first time since a year after World War II ended. According to the Goshen News, however, that could…
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Mike Elko Hire Could Save Brian Kelly at Notre Dame
Brian Kelly’s back is against the wall heading into 2017. On the heels of a 4-8 season and in need of replacing the worst hire of his Notre…