Greg Flammang
407 articles
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Greer Martini: Notre Dame Football’s Mr. Utility
You may have noticed, but favorability polls are a bit of thing going on in our country right now. It seems to be a good starting place when…
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Year Seven A Fork In The Road For Brian Kelly
It’s about the time of year that Notre Dame fans start to ask themselves the same question: what do you expect from the team this year? It’s fair…
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Notre Dame Wild Cards The Difference Between Good And Great
Going into 2016, if every player makes the contribution that is expected of them, it would be fair to say that Notre Dame is anywhere from an eight…
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Corey Robinson The Player Too Often Overlooked
Last week, Corey Robinson announced his decision to retire from football due to an accumulation of concussions and will take up a student assistant role within the football…
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Five Reasons To Be Optimistic About The Notre Dame Defense
Following my latest installment, which ranked the top 11 players on the Notre Dame defense, the response was near unanimous: the defense is in big trouble. Writing it,…
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Notre Dame Football’s Best 11: Defense
First we looked at the offense, now a look at the best 11 players on the defensive side of the ball for the 2016 Fighting Irish. As with…
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Notre Dame Football’s 11 Best: Offense
The idea of playing the best 11 guys you have on either side of the ball would seem to be conventional and a matter of common sense. Of…
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Questions Linger for Notre Dame Following Spring Ball
Just as soon as it began, spring practice concluded last Saturday for the Notre Dame football team, with a somewhat uneventful game that ended up with a 17-7…
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Emergence of Nyles Morgan a Must for Notre Dame
As a Southern California resident, there are not many people around here who obsess over Notre Dame football quite like myself. Sure, there are a lot of fans…
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Youth and Potential Early Themes for Notre Dame
Only a month and handful of practices into the 2016 spring version of Notre Dame football, fans and writers are officially on “over-reaction watch”. Spring stars don’t always…
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Top 5 Notre Dame Spring Practice Storylines: Defense
Part one of this series broke down the top five offensive storylines heading into the 2016 version of spring football, today the focus is on the defense. While…
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Top 5 Notre Dame Spring Practice Storylines: Offense
The days are getting longer and the flowers are starting to bloom, which of course signals the start of spring football for the 2016 Notre Dame football team.…
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Sophomores Set to Impact ’16 Notre Dame Defense
In part one we zeroed in on the offensive recruits of 2015 and how they looked to impact the team in 2016, now in part two we focus…
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Notre Dame Offensive Sophomores Vital in 2016
With the 2016 Notre Dame recruiting class all inked up and ready to make their names known to Irish fans in the fall, let’s take a look back at…
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5 Hidden Gems in the ’16 Notre Dame Recruiting Class
The tenor of the 2016 Notre Dame recruiting class will likely be determined by the decisions of three players–Demetris Robertson, Ben Davis and Caleb Kelly. They are a…
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Notre Dame’s Best & Worst Signing Day Recruiting Sagas
National Signing Day 2016 is a less than a week away and it promises to be an eventful one for the Notre Dame football team and its coaches.…
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4 Notre Dame Seniors Who Can Shape 2016
Notre Dame has seen a "senior bump" from a number of players over the last four years. Here's four potential seniors who could shape the 2016 season.
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2015 Was a Wild Ride for Notre Dame Football
Throughout the 2015 football season there were a number of narratives that surrounded the Notre Dame football team; so many in fact that in retrospect it’s hard to…
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Brian Kelly has Notre Dame on the Brink (Again)
Since the legendary Lou Holtz left Notre Dame in 1996, the Notre Dame football program has been lacking–in 10 win seasons, major bowl wins, wins against top 25…
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UHND’s Notre Dame Post-Season Awards Spectacular
It’s officially awards season in college football as everyone’s All-American teams come rolling in and various individual awards being given out around the country, with several Notre Dame…
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Familiar Troubles Continue to Haunt Notre Dame
Two plays and four points. Two plays and four points are the difference between Notre Dame fans feeling complete elation and excitement, and feeling empty and full of…
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Stars Must Align for Notre Dame Against Stanford
Wherever Notre Dame ended up in the latest college football playoff rankings, winning at Stanford to close out the 2015 regular season was always a must. The Irish…
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Champions Win Ugly Sometimes Too
Let’s get it out in the open, Saturday’s game against Wake Forest was ugly. Fourth ranked Notre Dame’s vaunted offense, averaging 494 yards a game, and 7.1 yards…
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Will Fuller, An Example of Speed Trumping Scheme
Football can be an extremely complicated sport... unless you have Will Fuller's speed, then it becomes quite a bit easier.
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Joe Schmidt, Jaylon Smith Hold Key for Notre Dame D
Prior to the 2015 season, I wrote about this being a make or break year for Brian VanGorder as the Notre Dame defensive coordinator. He returned a litany…