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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 most from…
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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. Despite featuring…
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Can Brian Kelly Turn Around Notre Dame Football?
Whether you are the type to take out an ad in the local newspaper calling for everyone to be fired or you think it makes sense for Notre Dame to…
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Revisiting The Notre Dame Preseason Over/Under Predictions: Defense
It’s generally best to predict any defense that is being led by Brian VanGorder to underwhelm and that sentiment certainly proved correct this season for a unit that finished (incredibly)…
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Revisiting The Notre Dame Preseason Over/Under Predictions: Offense
Back in August I made some over/under predictions for the Notre Dame offense and now that the season is over it seems appropriate that we take a look back and…
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What’s Next for Notre Dame Football
After an unexpected 4-8 season – the second worst in program history in over five decades – Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick faces a crossroads project with far more…
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Notre Dame Football Stock Report: Week 12
When it rains it pours, the hits just keep on coming, if it wasn’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all, kick a man while he’s down, and…
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Notre Dame Football Senior Week Stock Report
Notre Dame enters senior week on a rare high after their 44-6 drubbing of Army in the Lone Star state last Saturday. It goes without saying that this has been…
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Notre Dame Football Stock Report: Week 10
It would be hard for things to get much lower for the Notre Dame program right about now, following last Saturday’s one point loss to Navy, although losing to Army…
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Notre Dame Football Stock Report: Week 9
If you want to play a fun game at home amongst your friends and family, maybe during the Thanksgiving holiday, envision all of the talent on the 2015 Notre Dame…
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Beating the Miami Hurricanes Still Feels Damn Good
I was five years old when the infamous Notre Dame-Miami game took place in 1988. I didn’t understand the significance of the game or why, when it ended, my parents…
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Notre Dame Football Stock Report: Week 8
Regression to the mean is a common phrase used in our lives to describe the natural metaphysical pull towards homeostasis. When things are way up, they tend to over time…
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Notre Dame Football: What We’ve Learned at the Midpoint
A bye week serves a useful purpose for college football teams, particularly when it occurs during the halfway point of the season. In addition to a week of rest and…
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Notre Dame Football Stock Report: Week 7
After a holding line on Notre Dame stock following a win against Syracuse, another precipitous dip occurred against the Wolfpack of NC State in hurricane-like conditions in Raleigh, North Carolina.…
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Notre Dame, Offensive Line Limp into Stanford Week
On Saturday Notre Dame finally began to turn around two units that have hindered them all season: defense and special teams. Such an achievement was thought to be impossible until…
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Notre Dame Football Stock Report: Week 6
After two consecutive weeks of plummeting, the Notre Dame football stock leveled out, at least for now, with a 50-33 victory against the Syracuse Orangemen. It’s too soon to say…
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Notre Dame Special Teams Failures Require Kelly’s Focus
Notre Dame fans have had very little to cheer about this fall, a fact that finally began to change Saturday afternoon against Syracuse in New Jersey. Notre Dame’s defense surrendered…
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Post Game 6-Pack: Notre Dame Squeezes the Orange
Notre Dame got back on the win column Saturday with a 50-33 victory over the Orange from Syracuse. It wasn’t always pretty and the Irish were still sloppy in some…
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Debunking Notre Dame’s Lack of Defensive Talent
Amid the fury of posts over the last few weeks voicing angst over now former Notre Dame defensive coordinator, one of the common tunes heard on Notre Dame message boards…
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Notre Dame Football Stock Report: Week 5
Things are bad right now folks, there are no two ways about it. Notre Dame is going to be in a downward trend no matter what happens the rest of…
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Is There a Power Struggle at Notre Dame?
The statistics are nothing new. Notre Dame’s defense is ranked No. 101 nationally in points surrendered per game (33.5). The defense has allowed over 200 yards rushing per game under…
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Brian Kelly’s Defense of Defensive Staff Getting Offensive
Following Notre Dame’s latest loss – an embarrassing home loss to Duke – head coach Brian Kelly was quick to point the finger at everyone except those that deserved it…
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Notre Dame v. Duke ’16: Post Game 6-Pack
Notre Dame lost to Duke.. in football. Let that sink in for a minute. Notre Dame lost to Duke in football. I don’t care how many games Duke won a…
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Almost No Longer Good Enough for Notre Dame, Brian Kelly
Year seven of the Brian Kelly era wasn’t supposed to start out like this. Notre Dame wasn’t supposed to be out of the playoff mix by the middle of September. …
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Notre Dame Football Stock Report: Week 4
My wife is a market analyst for a financial firm in Southern California. She has described to me what it is like on the trading floor when the market takes…
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