A long held belief of mine over the years is you’re only as good as your best guys. The margins matter, of course, and if left unattended they can cost a team a game or two. But, if you’ve got ...
The last time Notre Dame signed a top 100 running back, receiver, and tight end in the same class was in 2008. That was the year #15 Michael Floyd, #29 Kyle Rudolph, and #92 Jonas Gray matriculated to Notre Dame, ...
Notre Dame’s recruiting class took a bit of a hit last week. First, top 100 receiver and Notre Dame target Jalen McMillan committed to the University of Washington, before getting on campus for his official visit to South Bend in ...
If you’re a close follower of year round recruiting, how many times have you asked yourself “what’s going on with Notre Dame at defensive back?” For me, it’s absolutely in the double digits. While every other position has been relatively ...
Over the last few seasons, there is one thing that has been consistent throughout that time: if Shaun Crawford is available, Notre Dame can field an excellent nickel defense. If he is not, then they cannot. It’s been that way ...
“We’re not where we want to be, but thank goodness we aren’t where we used to be.” This is a quote former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz has used on a number of occasion regarding various things, but it is ...
Notre Dame received their biggest commitment in the 2020 recruiting cycle, and perhaps the last five years, from #1 all-purpose back Chris Tyree last Thursday. It was the result of a years long recruiting push for a player they desperately ...
Brian Kelly and Notre Dame received a huge boost to their 2020 recruiting class today when 29th overall ranked Chris Tyree committed to the Irish over Alabama and Oklahoma. With this commitment, the Irish class bumps from 8th overall to ...
If you’ve followed this space over the last couple of months, you know all about Chris Tyree and Notre Dame’s pursuit of him. The #29 overall player in the country (per 247’s composite ranking) out of Virginia has been the ...
Spring ball is over, the summer doldrums are on the way, but there is no rest for the weary on the recruiting front. There has been a flurry of activity recruiting wise since the end of spring ball, with Notre ...
Can you win the draft by not being in the draft? If you can, then the winners were Notre Dame’s star defensive ends who spurned their NFL futures for one more season and returned to the Irish defense. Soon to ...
The 2016 season was an abject disaster for the Notre Dame football team. The 4-8 record. The loss to Duke at home, the hurricane game, the USC debacle. The program was reeling, ads were taken out in the student newspaper ...
Football in the spring is such a tease. It ends in January and is mostly gone for two months, only to return in March for five glorious weeks, and then gone again till August. Fortunately, Brian Kelly gave the media ...
We’ve been here before with Chase Claypool. At least I have. A little over two years ago, I declared the upcoming year to be the season of Claypool. He appeared to possess the skill set to break through opposite of ...
A tradition unlike any other, the annual Notre Dame spring game is kicking off–without an actual kickoff–today and will culminate the 15 spring practices for 2019 Notre Dame football team. People having differing views on how much to care about ...
