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Notre Dame Football: Who Will End the 33-year Heisman Drought?
The Fighting Irish still hold the record for the most Heisman Trophy winners, but the gap has closed. It has been 33 years since Notre Dame Wide Receiver Tim Brown…
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Notre Dame S Kyle Hamilton Pegged One of College Football’s Best
Most Notre Dame fans should know this already by now, but Kyle Hamilton is a really, really good football player. Those outside of the Notre Dame fanbase are starting to…
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Notre Dame Football What Ifs: Malik Zaire Doesn’t Get Hurt
After a season-opening beat down of Texas to kick start the 2015 season, Notre Dame looked like it had its quarterback for the next few years. Malik Zaire, who at…
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What Are Our Most Traumatic Notre Dame Football Losses?
Browsing the Twitter machine on Friday, I came across a prompt tweet from sports personality Jon Alba. Ok, sports Twitter: What is the most traumatic sporting event of your fandom?…
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SI Dubs Notre Dame Football THE New Offensive Line U
A couple of weeks ago, some Michigan fans tried to tell Notre Dame Blake Fisher that Notre Dame wasn’t tight end U. First off, that was a mistake because Fisher…
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Receiving Core Biggest Question Mark for Notre Dame Football in 2020
As Chase Claypool and Cole Kmet head to the NFL Draft, the Irish will be tasked with developing the next breakout receivers. Ian Book must quickly develop chemistry with a…
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Lance Taylor Has Work to Do With Notre Dame RB’s This Spring
With Tony Jones Jr deciding to pursue his NFL dreams instead of a 5th year at Notre Dame, the Irish enter the spring with just four scholarship running backs. A…
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The Importance Of Kevin Austin for Notre Dame Football
The most intriguing story line of spring practice for the University of Notre Dame is the play of soon to be junior wide receiver Kevin Austin. In case you haven’t…
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8 Potential Breakout Notre Dame Football Players in Spring 2020
Defining a “breakout” player is always very subjective. Is it a player who comes out of nowhere to be a factor or a player who’s played a bit but all…
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What Position Should Jafar Armstrong Play For Notre Dame In 2020?
Let’s take a step back to figure out how we got here. In the spring of 2018, Armstrong was set to play wide receiver for Notre Dame, as a redshirt…
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Secondary Concerns Highlight Notre Dame’s Defensive Off-Season Storylines
Let’s get one thing straight right off the top: whatever the concern is, it’s going to be fine. What is being discussed in this space is just fodder; things to…
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Plenty of Storylines Await Notre Dame Offense This Off-Season
The regular and post-season are over, the recruiting class is signed, and now the time for speculation and narrative begins. It’s the off-season, folks, get into it! Can’t fully start…
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Javon McKinley Returning for 5th Year Would be Great Notre Dame Story
After Notre Dame accepted a graduate transfer from Northwestern wide receiver Bennett Skowronek, it didn’t look like Javon McKinley would be returning for a 5th year whether it was his…
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Can Brian Kelly Push The Right Buttons On The Offensive Staff For Notre Dame?
The good news for Brian Kelly as he tries to put together an offensive staff for the second time since the 2016 season ended, is it comes at a good…
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5 Things I Didn’t Like in Notre Dame’s Very Likeable Bowl Game
Sometimes this column is tough to write. In fact, it’s usually good for us when it’s tough to write. When it’s easy to find five things I didn’t like in…
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5 Things I Liked from Notre Dame’s Inspired Effort in the Camping World Bowl
Notre Dame finished its 2019 season on Saturday with a convincing 33-9 victory over Iowa State in the Camping World Bowl giving them 11 wins on the season and propelling…
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Immediate Overreactions from Notre Dame’s Bowl Game Beating of Iowa State
Notre Dame capped off their 2019 season with their 11th win of the year thanks to a dominating performance in the Camping World Bowl over Iowa State. The 3.5 point…
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Brian Kelly Shows His Growth With Changes To Notre Dame Offense
Everyone has undoubtedly seen the news by now, Notre Dame and former offensive coordinator Chip Long are moving in separate ways. There has been a lot written about the success…
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Notre Dame Football 2019 Plays Of The Year
It’s awards season, folks! Forget the Heisman Trophy and the college football awards show and all that other fluff, the UHND awards are where it’s at for the Notre Dame…
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5 Things I Didn’t Like in a Very Fitting Way to End the 2019 Regular Season
Notre Dame capped off a 10-2 regular season on Saturday in much the way their entire went – a bit of an uneven effort that left fans frustrated at times…
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5 Things I Liked in Notre Dame’s Season Finale Win Over Stanford
Notre Dame capped off the regular season on Saturday with a 21 beating of rival Stanford to snap a five-game losing streak on the farm. The Irish started off slow,…
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For Notre Dame Football Fans, That Dissatisfaction You Feel Is Progress
2019 was a very strange year for Notre Dame football. First, almost everyone was wrong about everything. The sure things at quarterback and defensive end were not. Jafar Armstrong was…
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Overreactions from Notre Dame Football’s Cathartic Win at Stanford
Notre Dame started slow again before ripping off 31 unanswered points en route to a 45-24 win over Stanford to finally give Brian Kelly his first win on the farm…
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What I’m Thankful For This Notre Dame Football Season
The 2019 season is a good lesson that even though you don’t always get what you want, you can still appreciate the things you have. For many, the Michigan loss…
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5 Things I Didn’t Like in Notre Dame’s Last Home Game of 2019
You know it was a good game for Notre Dame when I can spend a significant portion of my 5 things I didn’t like column railing on Doug Flutie and…
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