The O.C.: Notre Dame Edition
Earlier today, news came out that the Offensive Coordinator Formerly Known As Chip Long and Notre Dame mutually agreed to part ways. Obviously this opens up an enormous vacancy for the Irish, who have a high-ranking offense. I decided to [...]
Offense Overhauled: Chip Long out as OC
The chaos of the offseason reached South Bend today, as Notre Dame and offensive coordinator Chip Long mutually agreed to part ways. First reported by Football Scoop and confirmed by South Bend Tribune's Eric Hansen and a host of other [...]
Irish Hoops: Hitting the Reset Button
So it's been quite a week for this Irish hoops program, hasn't it? Let's run through the depressing stuff: An embarrassing, unacceptable, nationally-televised, blowout loss to a Maryland team that has since been shown to not be all that impressive, [...]
Five Wide Fullbacks: Waiting for the Bowls
Welcome back to another edition of Five Wide Fullbacks. In today's article we will be covering Notre Dame's bowl decision making, a positional matchup with Iowa State, returning seniors, the best coaches of all-time, and the 2020 Heisman race. Let's [...]
Best & Worst Bowl Games, Plus Iowa State Preview
Hello friends, and welcome to college football bowl season. We now have the matchups all set, the playoffs ready to go, and the travel plans being made. Before we get to a small preview of Notre Dame's game against Iowa [...]
The Doing Good Things Post-Season Report
Never before have we written a Doing Good Things™ Report this late in the football season. Technically, there is still post-season football to attend to although for the most part the stories have been written for the vast majority of [...]
Advanced Stats Review: Stanford
Notre Dame finally broke through in Palo Alto, gaining an edge with an explosive offense and a defensive crackdown after the first quarter. The Irish lost the efficiency battle but were more consistent stringing successful plays together and on passing [...]
18S Top 20: One More Data Point
Outside of the annual Army-Navy game we have concluded the college football regular season and now wait for the conference championships to wrap up before the unveiling of the 6th edition of the 4-team playoff, plus other bowls too. This [...]
The 2009 Coaching Search and a New Era
Ten years ago this week, Jack Swarbrick made one of the most consequential decisions in Notre Dame football history in hiring the 29th head coach of the Fighting Irish. This installment is no longer Charlie Weis' Last Stand, but instead [...]
2019 Playoff Big Board: Conference Championship Week
See? I told you Alabama wasn’t going to be in the playoff... The board cleared up considerably this week, and with only a handful of true contenders left we can now get a lot more serious about projecting playoff scenarios. [...]
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