Barring more crazy movement the college football head coaching market is all dried up. When it's all said and done there will be 26 new head coaching positions for 2019, a turnover of a perfect 20% of the entire country. There remains one coach who was hired prior to 2000 (Iowa's Kirk Ferentz in 1999), [...]
This week the #1 Irish added wins over Wake Forest and Virginia Tech to move to 17-1 overall, and 5-0 in the ACC. They seem to have really hit their stride lately. While the ACC remains a challenging conference with a lot of quality opponents, the Irish look to be in good shape moving forward. [...]
The 2018 season was quietly one of the best in recent memory for college football uniforms. No, not because of Notre Dame's Yankee-inspired offering from the Syracuse game which we can confirm caused Under Armour stock to plunge 4%* for being so absurd. Sure, we're still in the throes of Black for Black's Sake, random [...]
The lacrosse world has been buzzing over the report that Ryder Garnsey is ineligible to play this season. We have no news to add to this report, and of this writing, the University and team have not verified the news. Notre Dame will be without attackman Ryder Garnsey for the entire 2019 season, multiple sources [...]
Autry Denson will make one last run in South Bend - not on the hallowed grounds of Notre Dame Stadium this time, but down Angela Boulevard on his way to the airport. Notre Dame's all-time leading rusher and erstwhile running backs coach has accepted an offer to be the head coach of FCS Charleston-Southern, according [...]
Playing only six players after losing two starters to illness and injury, Notre Dame found a way to win their first ACC game against Boston College. A few hours before the game, ND announced that Juwan Durham would miss the game with an ankle injury. Thirty minutes before tip, TJ Gibbs started showing signs of [...]
Compare the first Reviewing the Redshirts post on the offense from last week with today's look at the defense and Notre Dame essentially saved eligibility on an entire recruiting class heading into 2019. While there were 13 players who took a redshirt on offense and just 7 featured today on defense one could argue there [...]
The top ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish used a huge second half from senior Arike Ogunbowale to give previously undefeated #2 Louisville their first loss of the season. The senior guard scored 26 of her 30 points in the second half giving the Irish a win in their second #1 v. #2 game of the [...]
The Notre Dame 2019 football schedule looks more formidable than 2018's ended up being. Even so, and even acknowledging that spring ball and fall camp can change the picture substantially for everyone, it also looks manageable. Road dates at Georgia, Michigan, and Stanford loom large now. Virginia Tech could be in for a big rebound. [...]
There have been seasons when we've had fewer than 10 players featured in our Reviewing the Redshirts off-season series. Today, we will cover 13 players alone just on the offensive side of the ball. There's a little bit of everything here including, elite recruits, under the radar players, and some with much to prove early [...]
To me, Rocket Ismail is the embodiment of Notre Dame football. I was a bit too young to live through the Tim Brown era--and while I have vague memories of the 1988 National Championship--it had already been placed in my brain that winning was normal for the Fighting Irish. To be expected, right? Tuesday, January [...]
Despite a strong effort by the Irish, multiple scoring droughts doomed ND to a 72-62 loss to Syracuse. The Irish started strong, and led much of the first half. Notre Dame dominated inside as the combination of Juwan Durham and John Mooney helped to unlock the Cuse 2-3 zone. Durham flushed an alley-oop to open [...]
As the calendar has turned to 2019 and Notre Dame's season came to a grinding halt in Arlington we are looking ahead to the new football season. Ever forward. Since we're still awaiting news from several players and their decisions to return to South Bend this is basically an early version of the early 2019 [...]
Coming out of the Cotton Bowl Classic loss to Clemson many Fighting Irish fans have turned their eyes toward recruiting and the quest for the elusive 5-star talents. Today's post was going to be an off-season project either way but following our meeting with Clemson I figured I'd roll this out now. I had been [...]
Notre Dame was heavy underdogs in the Cotton Bowl and was supposed to feel disrespected. The game was supposed to be a tight contest turning on a couple breaks for the victors. Nothing of the sort happened as Clemson proved itself thoroughly superior as Notre Dame fell flat on its face again in a big [...]
