Shaun Crawford

Tonight is the annual Notre Dame Football banquet, otherwise known as the Echoes Awards Show. It’s the post-season banquet, people get dressed up, there is something of a red carpet, trophies or some such are given out. It’s a big ...

If you’ve ever played football you might have heard the phrase “the eye in the sky don’t lie.” Usually it came up when there was a screw up and a coach would ask the player what happened. The player would ...

Notre Dame put a hurting on Michigan State over the weekend.  The Irish dominated Michigan State from start to finish in one of the best performances we’ve seen from the Irish in some time.  We don’t yet know just how ...

I noted following the week 2 loss to Georgia, there were lots of ways to lose games. We haven’t seen it much lately, but the same is true in victories. Sometimes you run for 400 or 500 yards and pull ...

Well now, who saw a Notre Dame blowout of Michigan State in Spartan Stadium coming?  That is what happened this evening as Notre Dame marched into East Lansing looking for revenge from last year’s loss to Michigan State and walked ...

It was “a win is a win” week for the Fighting Irish football team. It was the type of game that provides the best and worst in message board fodder. On the one hand, the Fighting Irish football team ran ...

It’s only been three games for Mike Elko as the defensive coordinator for Notre Dame, but the early returns are already promising.  Elko inherited a unit that had become a liability and a major factor in Notre Dame’s poor performance ...

Notre Dame turned in a dominant rushing performance while its passing game struggled and its defense played a fairly vanilla game.  The result was a 49-20 victory that felt much closer since Boston College hung on into the third quarter. ...

Notre Dame improved to 2-1 on the season on Saturday with a 49-20 victory over Boston College in a game that saw Notre Dame have some historic rushing totals.  Still, the Notre Dame offense didn’t also throw for 500 yards ...

We are almost there everybody.  Tomorrow is gameday.  One of the longest, most interesting off-seasons in recent Notre Dame football memory comes to a close and we can finally stop speculating about how all the changes will work and start ...

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 and offensive linemen are in focus today alongside one of ...

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 2016, and it started long before the season started. Projected ...

For Notre Dame to have a big bounce back season in 2017, the stars will have to align and the bounces will almost have to go all their way unlike 2016 when all the bounces seemingly went against them.  Notre ...

The 2017 Notre Dame football season is just around the corner and the fine folks at ND Insider have put together a heck of a pre-season magazine to help get us all ready for what should be a pivotal year for ...

Brian Kelly met with the media for the first time for fall camp 2017 on Monday.  He touched on a wide array of topics that we will get into much more detail on, but one of the most important topics ...