The 3 Hot Topics After Brian Kelly’s Opening Spring Practice Presser

Notre Dame football opened up spring practice on Saturday and with no outsiders allowed at any of the workouts we're left with the scraps from coaches and players' Zoom sessions with the media. Following the first workout, head coach Brian Kelly took about 20 minutes of questions from reporters with a trio of subjects jumping [...]

By |2021-03-28T15:18:35-04:00March 28th, 2021|Football|11 Comments

Notre Dame Spring Football: 13 Top Stories After the Opening Practice

Fighting Irish football won't be back on the field for nearly 2 weeks. Before they went into this godforsaken long break the media was able to witness one practice only in shells. In such situations very little can be learned from one isolated practice but here at 18 Stripes we make it our goal to [...]

By |2020-03-06T10:49:18-05:00March 6th, 2020|Football|3 Comments

Notre Dame Spring Practice Preview: Offense

Spring practice begins this Thursday and plenty of questions remain for an offense bringing back a ton of experience at quarterback and offensive line but dealing with injuries with the latter position. Will Notre Dame be able to use these 15 workouts to establish an identity and pecking order for the rest of the roster, [...]

By |2020-03-02T09:11:58-05:00March 2nd, 2020|Football|11 Comments

Stock Report: Mid-Spring Updated Irish Depth Chart

Notre Dame is half way through spring practice already with another workout coming Thursday and the 4th open practice arriving this Saturday over the past 9 days. It's this odd feeling of...too many practice reports? It's a weird thing to say but the amount of access so far this spring has been quite different. Normally, [...]

By |2019-03-28T09:43:51-04:00March 28th, 2019|Football|11 Comments

Spring Practice Preview: Defense

Earlier this week we previewed the Notre Dame offense ahead of the opening of spring practice. Today, we turn our attention to the Irish defense coming off an impressive No. 10 national finish in defensive S&P during Clark Lea's first season as coordinator. The young coach will face an important spring replacing several key veterans [...]

By |2019-02-27T21:34:36-05:00February 27th, 2019|Football|20 Comments

Spring Practice Report: Appraise Without Hayes

We are finally entering the home stretch for spring football as the Fighting Irish finished their second-to-last full media viewing practice on Saturday. The team will take the practice field 5 more times overall with another full viewing this upcoming Saturday before the Blue-Gold Game on April 21st. Yes, this means spring practice has been [...]

By |2018-05-09T22:25:22-04:00April 9th, 2018|Football|13 Comments

Spring Practice: 8 Storylines Following Full Media Viewing

Notre Dame wrapped up its 5th practice of spring ball this past Saturday with full media viewing privileges for those in attendance. The Irish will practice twice more this week and then take another week-long break before finishing up the remaining 7 workouts culminating in the Blue-Gold Game on April 21st. We're about 33% of [...]

By |2018-05-09T22:25:23-04:00March 26th, 2018|Football|8 Comments
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