Kevin Austin

Notre Dame held its first practice of fall camp 2019 at Culver Academy on Sunday, so it’s time for some overreactions…. errr observations.  It’s really impossible to take anything too definitive from the first day of practice without pads on, ...

If you’ve been following this space over the last year, you know there has been a great deal of excitement regarding freshman safety Kyle Hamilton. First, it came when he was a recruit, then as a commit, and now as ...

It wouldn’t be a Notre Dame off-season if there wasn’t some mystery surrounding the status of at least one potential playmaker for the Irish.  Two years ago it was Kevin Stepherson.  Last year it was Dexter Williams.  This year it’s ...

After some time off for spring break, Notre Dame returned to practice this week and almost half way through spring ball a few things are starting to become clear while the Irish are still figuring things out in other places.  ...

This Spring Notre Dame is tasked with replacing several leaders and crucial players from the 2018 season. Fortunately, a large nucleus of players will be returning from a team that finished 12-1. Each Spring brings turnover from the year before ...

The storyline from the Cotton Bowl meltdown for Notre Dame was the glaring difference at the skill positions.  Clemson’s wide receivers were just on another level and made plays even when the Irish coverage was actually okay.  To be fair, ...

The biggest glaring differences between Notre Dame and Clemson a week ago wasn’t in the trenches – it was on the edges where Clemson used a variety of young, fast wide receivers to exploit the Irish secondary once Julian Love ...

The long wait for playoff football is almost over!  After a month of no Fighting Irish football to watch, Notre Dame is back in action today in the Cotton Bowl against Clemson in the College Football Playoffs.  To get you ...

Notre Dame played about as uneven of a 22-point victory as you could play on Saturday night.  At times they looked flat out dominant and at others it looked like they wanted nothing to do with trying to slow down ...

You know how when you’re dating someone and despite how cool they are and how much fun you have together, something is missing? It feels weird to break-up because there really isn’t anything wrong, but you know there is a ...

Notre Dame played its most complete game of the season on Saturday afternoon on their first road trip of the season.  The Irish scored 56 points behind new starting quarterback Ian Book and kept Wake Forest’s uptempo offense from wearing ...

It’s easy to place all of the blame for Notre Dame’s offensive struggles so far this year on the shoulders of the quarterback since he’s running the show.  A quarterback, no matter how good however, is often only as good ...

The Notre Dame football team wrapped up fall camp over the weekend, with classes starting today for the student body. The media was allowed to observe four full practices, and we learned a lot from the reports of those in ...

As part of our weekly freshmen watch, and with a weeks more information, here is an update on which freshmen are likely to contribute on a weekly basis on offense or defense, excluding special teams. I’ve moved some players up, ...

A lot of the time, freshmen are fun to talk about in the preseason, but give way to the experience once camp begins. Take last season for example. Most of the contributions Notre Dame saw from their rookies were on ...