Greg Flammang
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Greg Flammang
A native of Southern California, Greg fell in love with Notre Dame as a kid watching The Rocket rip teams apart. He was a self-described mediocre junior college safety, phenomenal co-ed flag football player. Greg started writing for UHND in 2015 for fun and has since had 200+ articles published on Notre Dame football & recruiting. Greg also runs the Untitled Notre Dame/USC football podcast via tiltingground.com which covers both the Fighting Irish & Trojan programs - you can subscribe to on iTunes. Greg is married with three kids and he last slept in during the summer of 2014. He thanks everyone for stopping by for reading. We’re all just trying to have fun and will Notre Dame to another national championship. Go Irish!
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Notre Dame vs. Georgia: Winning In The Margins
We’ve heard the phrase “in the trenches” quite a bit this week. And for good reason. It’s where most football games are won. This week especially so, with…
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Notre Dame Football Stock Report: Week 1
Thank goodness for that. Not just for the blowout win, which was sorely needed, but just for the new football year finally being here. Discussing and breaking down…
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25 Over/Under Predictions For Notre Dame In 2017
As part of the pre-season prediction series I’m going to throw out a bunch of over/under’s for offense, defense, and special teams to give people an idea of…
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Temple Is Talking All The Trash And It Is Fantastic
It never quite feels like football season has arrived until one team starts lobbing salvos at their opponent through the media. Well, the Temple Owl football team is…
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Notre Dame Football 2017 Pre-Season Stock Report
Welcome back everyone! If you were one of those die hards that hung in there through the disaster that was 2016, you know how this column works. Each…
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Stone Cold Lock ’17 Notre Dame Football Player Predictions Part 2
We did the ancillary awards last week, now we get to the main event. Who will be this teams MVP on offense? Or the revamped defense? With less…
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Stone Cold Lock ’17 Notre Dame Football Player Awards
We are less than two weeks from the opening of the 2017 season against Temple, classes have started, so it’s time to make some guesses. The Fighting Irish…
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Notre Dame Passing Game Shines In New & Gold Scrimmage
Notre Dame did a fun thing on Sunday, August 20th with their football team. You might have heard, the University has revamped their football stadium, and yesterday they…
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Notre Dame Football Secondary Ready To Bounce Back in ’17
The final installment of our preseason Better Or Worse series is a look at the last line of the Notre Dame defense. Things were rough on the back…
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Julian Love: Much More than Notre Dame’s Safety Net
Heading into the 2016 opener, true freshman defensive back Julian Love was a third team corner looking to make his mark on special teams. His role was not…
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Notre Dame Linebackers Ready To Lead Irish Defense
The UHND 2017 Better Or Worse series rolls on with a look at the 2017 linebacker position. One thing the revamped Mike Elko led charges seem to lack…
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Notre Dame Football 2017 Better Or Worse: Defensive Line
In the latest installment of the Better or Worse series, we get into the nitty gritty: the defensive line. This is where titles are won. Up the middle,…
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2017 Notre Dame Football Better Or Worse: Offensive Line
We continue our preseason series comparing units from the previous season with the offensive line. Last week I looked at the quarterbacks and skill position units. If you…
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Notre Dame Football 2017 Better Or Worse: The Skill Positions
We continue our preseason roster breakdown as we head toward the season opener September 2nd against Temple. Last week I looked at quarterback where I made the, apparently,…
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Notre Dame Football 2017: Brian Kelly Opening Presser Notes
It’s that time of year! We’ve slogged through the doldrums of the offseason, prognosticated about all the new coaches, schemes, and program changes. With Notre Dame head coach…
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Notre Dame Recruiting: Player Breakdown Of Running Back Jahmir Smith
As a writer for a site that covers Notre Dame recruiting year round, I feel like I have a pretty good grasp of who is on the team’s…
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Notre Dame Football 2017 Better Or Worse: Quarterback
We like to take a look each year at all the positional groups and take stock in whether that group is improved, or gotten worse, from the previous…
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Resetting The Notre Dame Secondary Following The Ashton White Departure
Yesterday, junior safety Ashton White declared he was leaving the Notre Dame football team, while still enrolled with the University, to concentrate and his degree before transferring to…
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Notre Dame Recruiting: Can Brian Kelly Solve His Five Star Problem?
Last week Rivals ranked their top 50 schools in terms of recruiting from the last five years. The methodology was simple: they averaged all the final class rankings…
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Notre Dame Football Recruiting: Recapping The Opening
The premier high school summer football camp wrapped up over the 4th of July weekend, and there were some fireworks (bada bing). About 160 of the best high…
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Notre Dame Football Recruiting: Updates From The Opening
The Opening finals at Nike headquarters in Oregon is the buzz of the week in the college football world. Hundreds, if not thousands, of athletes compete in regionals…
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Notre Dame Football Recruiting: WR Kevin Austin Spotlight
The 2018 recruiting cycle roars on as the Notre Dame football team assembles on campus for summer workouts. Recently, the 2018 class lost four star receiver Braden Lenzy…
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Javon McKinley: A Sleeping Giant for Notre Dame Football
If I asked the average fan who follows Notre Dame football year round to list the young players at receiver they were excited about, I think the names…
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Notre Dame Recruiting Film Room: Paul Moala Evaluation
Raise your hand if you didn’t know Paul Moala was a person till last weekend. (Hand raised.) The cool thing about following recruiting year round is the names…
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Notre Dame Football Recruiting Gears Up For Irish Invasion 2017
June is here, school is out, and that can only mean one thing: Irish Invasion is back! The premiere summer camp held inside Notre Dame Stadium for the…
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Notre Dame Recruiting Update: Irish Fading with Two Top Targets?
Notre Dame received some much needed good news on the recruiting on Tuesday when Ja’Mion Franklin gave the Irish their first commitment in almost two months. In the…
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Notre Dame Recruiting Class Grows: DT Ja’Mion Franklin Commits
The 2018 Notre Dame recruiting class received a boost on Tuesday with the commitment of three star defensive tackle Ja’Mion Franklin from Ridgley, Maryland. Franklin chose Notre Dame…
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What Can Notre Dame Football Expect from Shaun Crawford?
Anyone who has followed me knows the soft spot I have for Crawford as a player and how excited/exasperated I’ve been at the various points of his promising/unfortunate…
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Notre Dame Football: Top 10 Players Of The Last 30 Years
Recently, Athlon Sports put out a Top 50 players of the last 50 years list and Notre Dame was shut out. I’m not going to spend a ton…
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Reasons For Optimism For Notre Dame in 2017 Are In The Numbers
I was called a “negative nelly” last week by one of our readers and it was glorious. I’m usually the guy who is too positive. I like to…
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Notre Dame Football ’17: Spring Recruiting Update
Every now and then it’s nice to give the current state of recruiting the once-over and get an idea of where things stand. Understandably, there is a little…
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Notre Dame Football ’17: The Fall Or Rise Of The Brian Kelly Era
I think we’ve all heard at least one story regarding the transformation Brian Kelly has undergone this offseason. They have been both personal and professional in their existence.…
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Notre Dame Football Post Spring Analysis: Linebackers Lead The Way
I really like to do rankings when evaluating a team. It helps me get a read on the type of team I’m going to be watching in the…
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Notre Dame Football And The NFL Draft In The Brian Kelly Era
With the upcoming NFL draft in Philadelphia on the doorstep, and a number of Irish players eagerly awaiting their name to be called, the subject of player development…
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Notre Dame Football Spring ’17: Revisiting What To Watch For
At the start of spring ball I highlighted one thing from each position group on offense and defense I wanted to pay close attention to in a two…
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Notre Dame Football 2017 Spring Game: What We Learned
Well, what did you think? Notre Dame fans got their first extended look at the revamped 2017 football team yesterday with the playing of the annual Blue-Gold game…
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Notre Dame Football Key Recruiting: Blue Gold Game Weekend Preview
One of the biggest recruiting weekends of the offseason for any major football program is the playing of the spring game and Notre Dame is no different. There…
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Notre Dame Football Spring ’17: Revisiting Brandon Wimbush
The University of Notre Dame football team is going to have a new starting quarterback in 2017 and, somewhat incredibly, that is something of a back ground story.…
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Notre Dame Football Spring ’17 Notes: Boykin & Jones Rising
Brian Kelly held a press conference today, a couple of days after he either “assassinated the character” of his former quarterback, DeShone Kizer (according to former player Bert…
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Notre Dame Football Spring ’17: Irish Receivers Look To Take Next Step In 2017
There were many culprits on the Notre Dame offense in 2016 that led to a dismal 4-8 record and the ouster of three offensive coaches, including offense coordinator…
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Notre Dame Football Spring ’17: How Chip Long Can Maximize The Running Back Talent
If you are a connoisseur of Notre Dame information and practice updates like me, you have noticed the excitement level around the their three top running backs–Josh Adams,…
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Notre Dame WR Chase Claypool Primed For Stardom
On February 25th I wrote in a column for this site that Chase Claypool was going to turn into a star this season like Jeff Samardzija in 2005…
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Notre Dame Football Spring ’17: Not All Sunshine And Rainbows
I think we all have that friend who likes to call himself the “realist” who loves to boast of his ability to “tell it like it is.” He’s…
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Spring Football ’17: Gauging The Talent On The Notre Dame Roster
Most of the discussion during the offseason regarding the Notre Dame football team revolves around Brian Kelly’s renaissance, his yoga schedule, the new coaching hires, and the miracle…
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What To Watch For On Defense: Notre Dame Football Spring ’17
I lectured on about how much I love spring practice in part 1 of this series, so check that out if you’re like me and you can’t get…
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Brian Kelly Hits Reset Button: Notre Dame Spring ’17 Presser Notes
If you had no interest in following Notre Dame football in any way until this afternoon, you might have thought you were listening to the opening spring press…
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What to Watch For on Offense: Notre Dame Football Spring ’17
Notre Dame Football 2017 kicks off on Wednesday with the opening of spring practice and the start of a new era for Brian Kelly’s football team. New coaches,…
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Notre Dame Football Spring Primer: New Names Take The Stage
There are many occasions where spring football is very much a non-story. Practices are rudimentary, we generally make big predictions about the spring narrative–consider that Corey Holmes and…
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Notre Dame Football Recruiting 2018: Off To A Flying Start
Things are happening, folks. Things. Are. Happening. The plan for the UHND staff following the February 1st signing day for the 2017 class was to put recruiting on…
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Notre Dame Football Needs To Stop Playing Catch Up
Upon reflection following his Notre Dame career, head coach Lou Holtz surmised that his biggest mistake as the Fighting Irish head coach was complacency. Following the teams success…