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Eye In The Sky: To Turn Or Not To Turn For The Notre Dame Corners
Notre Dame has struggled this season, across starting cornerbacks Nick Watkins and Julian Love, in jump ball situations. They hurt them against Georgia for a few big plays, Love gave…
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Notre Dame Football Stock Report: Week 5
I’ve never been more confused. Notre Dame is so good at running the ball, and so bad at throwing the ball. I guess this is what it was like in…
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Notre Dame Football Key Matchups: Notre Dame v. Michigan State ’17
Having sandwiched some high-scoring victories against weaker opponents between a one-point loss to Georgia, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish stay on the road with an intriguing and important matchup against…
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Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players in 2017: #11-15
Our countdown of the top 25 players on the Notre Dame football roster for 2017 continues today with the players ranked 11th-15th. As we inch towards the top 10, cornerbacks…
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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 end in…
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Nick Watkins: Notre Dame Football ’17 Now or Never
Coming back from a 2016 campaign that was completely wiped out by injury, junior cornerback Nick Watkins is one of the key players that Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly…
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Nick Watkins Return A Huge Boost for Notre Dame Secondary
Notre Dame senior cornerback Nick Watkins was ready to step into the starting line up last year after a trial by fire in the 2016 Fiesta Bowl loss to Ohio…
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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 enough of…
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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 conference for…
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8 Notre Dame Players Needing to Crush Spring Ball
With the rapid pace at which Notre Dame football news has been occurring, it’s been a bit overlooked that spring football is just over a week away. Finally, Notre Dame…
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Notre Dame CB Nick Watkins Out for 2016 Season
A couple weeks ago it looked like Notre Dame might be able to get Nick Watkins back this season. That glimmer of hope is gone after Brian Kelly announced on…
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Positive Nick Watkins Injury Update
Notre Dame got its first good news on the cornerback front in months on Thursday when Brian Kelly revealed that Nick Watkins could potentially be back for the Fighting Irish…
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Notre Dame Football Fall Camp ’16 Injury Updates
Micah Dew Treadway has a “Jones fracture” Sophomore Micah Dew Treadway has a Jones fracture of the 5th metatarsal and will be out for eight weeks. What is a Jones…
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2016 Notre Dame Football Number Changes
Blue & Gold’s Lou Somogyi reported on some Notre Dame football jersey number changes for 2016 earlier on Tuesday with Notre Dame’s senior quarterback, Malik Zaire, highlighting the number changes. While…
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Notre Dame Football’s Best 11: Defense
First we looked at the offense, now a look at the best 11 players on the defensive side of the ball for the 2016 Fighting Irish. As with the offense,…
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Top 5 Notre Dame Spring Practice Storylines: Defense
Part one of this series broke down the top five offensive storylines heading into the 2016 version of spring football, today the focus is on the defense. While the Notre…
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Notre Dame Spring Preview: Restocking the Secondary
The past several weeks UHND has examined some of the pressing issues facing head coach Brian Kelly’s squad heading into the spring practice session, including looking into Notre Dame’s pass…
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How Notre Dame Will Replace Keivarae Russell
Another day, another Notre Dame player with eligibility remaining entering the 2016 NFL Draft. Saturday it was running back CJ Prosise. Sunday it was All-American wide receiver Will Fuller. Monday…
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Silver Lining Playbook: Fiesta Bowl Edition
Notre Dame lost a New Year’s Day bowl game by 16 points to a talented Ohio State team and lost its final chance for a statement making moment for the…
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Post Spring Notre Dame Football Stock Report
With spring practice complete and Notre Dame ready for OTA’s, we have a somewhat better idea now of what the Irish have to work with and work on between now…
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Cornerback a Position of Strength for Notre Dame in ’15
The ineffectiveness of the Irish 2014 secondary, specifically the cornerback position, had less to do with talent and ability and more to do with lack of depth and experience. Heading…
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Duranko’s Digest: 10 frosh likely to play for Notre Dame in 2014
Brian Kelly plays freshmen. Last year 10 frosh saw significant minutes and some were key contributors-on both sides of the ball. the 10 were Elmer, Folston, Fuller, Robinson, Onwualu, Rochell, Redfield,…
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