Shaun Crawford

When former 4-star safety Derrik Allen decided to transfer to Georgia Tech earlier this week, it officially created depth concerns at safety for Notre Dame in 2019 and beyond.   The Irish are, without doubt, stacked with Alohi Gilman and Jalen ...

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, ...

Brian Kelly officially kicked off Notre Dame football’s 2019 training camp on Friday with his first press conference of the summer.  Official practices start on Sunday in Culver Academy where the Irish will conduct five full practice sessions before returning ...

When it comes to the cornerback position for Notre Dame in 2019, there is one thing we know: Troy Pride is going to start at one of the spots. It may be at boundary, it may be to the field, ...

Over the last few seasons, there is one thing that has been consistent throughout that time: if Shaun Crawford is available, Notre Dame can field an excellent nickel defense. If he is not, then they cannot. It’s been that way ...

We all read into every word Julian Love said about the NFL versus coming back for a senior season leading up to the Cotton and let ourselves believe that we might just get the consensus All-American back for another year.  ...

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 ...