It had long been speculated that a return to the Notre Dame football team was unlikely for Ishaq Williams following his involvement in last summer’s academic scandal.  Thursday that speculation became reality when the NCAA denied the former 5-star recruit’s ...

Over the weekend we learned that Keivarae Russell was back with Notre Dame, but that had long been expected.  On Monday we learned that a bit more surprisingly, Ishaq Williams has reportedly also been readmitted to Notre Dame after his ...

When Brian Kelly opened spring practice last month he didn’t have much of an update on the future of would be senior defensive Ishaq Williams.  Three weeks later, the Fighting Irish head coach still couldn’t offer much clarity on the ...

While Notre Dame got some very encouraging news on Tuesday that Jarrett Grace would be returning to the playing field after a long absence following his recovery from a broken tibia and fibula, they got some discouraging news regarding the ...

The Notre Dame community was rocked on Friday with the bombshell of an internal investigation into academic misconduct involving four members of the football team.  While not much is known at this time, we do know that the four players ...

For the last few summers we have profiled a set of players who have come to Notre Dame amid high expections about to enter their junior or senior years either wihtout having lived up to the billing or with a ...

There are many players who will be important for Notre Dame in 2014, but today we identify four Irish players who, individually and together, may well determine the Irish success and final record in 2014. We here use pivotal based on ...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how Notre Dame might not have that tough a time replacing the offensive talent it lost to the NFL this off-season even though Zack Martin will be remembered as one of the ...

Notre Dame didn’t satisfy its goal of returning to the national championship in 2013 due to slipping back into poor habits from 2011. If the Irish want to get back on track in 2014 they’ll need have numerous veterans step ...

Notre Dame used its late season bye week to rest last week – literally.  Notre Dame didn’t practice last week because of all of the mounting injuries the Irish have dealt with in 2013 – specifically on the defensive side ...

Brian Kelly spoke with the media on Saturday and offered almost a full injury report as well as updates at some key positions. Notre Dame worked on primarily situational work on Saturday – the coaches were not given the situations ...

Our countdown of the top 25 players on the 2013 Notre Dame football roster continues today with a player who is either on the verge of a breakout season, or on the verge of getting passed on the depth chart ...

We continue our series of posts on “Now or Never” players for 2013 that we kicked off earlier this month with posts a look at how George Atkinson will be challenged at running back and whether or not Ben Koyack ...

  Notre Dame’s best units, quelle surprise, are on defense. (3) CORNERBACK Two returning starters in Bennett Jackson, on a collision course with the 2014 NFL draft, and KeiVarae Russell, still several months away from his first anniversary of his conversion ...

Often times the difference between a good year and a great year for a team is the number of players who come out of nowhere and become star players. Every team has its star players coming into a season and ...