One of the things our writers discussed as I was putting together the 2010-16 run success rate for the Notre Dame running backs was what constituted success for other programs? How do we compare? What's considered average? What's considered top of the line? It was a good question and one that I felt needed to [...]

No positional group escaped harsh criticism from the 4-8 garbage of a season Notre Dame put together in 2016. The run game in particular was accused of taking a hefty step back from the preceding year when the Prosise/Adams/Kizer trio burst on to the scene for an exciting season on the ground. However, there's a [...]

The 2015 season brought three new major runners to the field and in some ways none of them were expected to have major roles. C.J. Prosise successfully made the transition from receiver, DeShone Kizer would become the starting quarterback early in the season, and Josh Adams quickly established himself as a trusted true freshman. Run [...]

We're now on to the 5th year under Brian Kelly in this review and so far we saw a poor 2010 season, tremendous 2011, pretty good 2012, and the 2013 season bottomed out almost to the levels of 2010. The good news is that things improved for 2014. The bad news is that the run [...]

In our last installment the 2012 season saw a very rugged yet mostly positive run success as the Irish raced out to a 12-0 regular season. Then, the National Championship Game happened, an internet hoax took over the headlines, and eventually the returning starting quarterback was suspended for the entire upcoming season. Thus, began the [...]

Our previous installment in this series recognized how Jonas Gray had a year for the ages seemingly out of nowhere and today we look at the running back success rate for Notre Dame's surprising run through an undefeated regular season. Looking back at the run game for 2012 a couple of story lines remain at [...]

The Notre Dame game run game in 2010 took turns switching between decent and below average. Heading into 2011 the loss of a couple seniors brought plenty of question marks. However, no one could have been ready for the season Jonas Gray would have as a senior. Sadly, his season and college career were cut [...]

Today I'm beginning a series that will look at the run success rate for the Notre Dame running backs since Brian Kelly arrived in 2010. I'll look at each year, 7 posts in all, starting right now with Kelly's maiden voyage in South Bend. Heading into 2010 there was so much focus on Dayne Crist [...]