A Notre Dame Football Blog
The 2018 Notre Dame Football Preview from ND Insider has been on the stands for a few weeks now. Its appearance is another sign that football is close at hand. At ninety-six pages, heavy with gloss and laden with information, it takes the reader deeper and deeper into a very Irish world. With such depth, the reader only finds the bottom with the back cover. When digested, the reader should know everything about the team, from the specialists to the coaches. The 2018 Notre Dame Football ...
Do you know what it means to miss Notre Dame? This graduation weekend, this weekend where the latest class of overachievers leave a campus I hardly recognize anymore, I cannot help but pervert the Louis Armstrong classic to bring my thoughts back to the Bend. It's a Bend I don't get back to enough, or, really, at all. I was back for Stanford in 2004. Before Stanford, there was law school and finding my way, a wedding, a deployment. Then Katrina, and a kid, intervened. I went back for Michigan in ...
Via flicker, Credit: Nick Kenrick.
"Hi mom, it's me. Steve." My roommate would start every call home this way. I wonder what today's student would make of the idea of sharing a phone? Of having a phone that was physically attached to the wall by a cord of some lunatic length and a receiver that was itself connected to the base by another coil, equally long? What would today's student make of the ritual of producing your room's answering machine message? I howled internally whenever my roommate would reintroduce himself to his ...
With a scoring system roughly as complicated as the one used in dressage and an excitement level usually reserved for the Purdue game, the Notre Dame Football Blue-Gold Game is of interest mainly to see what progress, if any, was made over the Spring practices and how The Shirt looks in the stands. It's also a reasonable facsimile of college football, so if you're not careful and you suspend reality just enough, it can be a fair amount of fun to watch. This year's April Classic was no different ...
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If you went to Mass on Sunday morning, or received and read your FaithND daily e-mail, you know that the Gospel reading was one about humility. Jesus instructs us, among other things, to not fall for the long tassels and wide phylacteries that all the cool kids are wearing. But why the heck should we be poor-mouthing Saturday's 48-37 win over Wake Forest? It is more than fair to say that The Irish D was "off" on Saturday and especially in the game's second-half. Whether you chalk that up to ...
Saturday's 35-14 win over #14 North Carolina State capped the most dominant display by Notre Dame against ranked teams in the last fifteen years. The week before, The Irish dispatched then #11 USC by thirty-five points, 49-14. These back-to-back wins over ranked opponents are also the rather luscious cherry on top of a six-game winning streak that dates back to Week Three versus Boston College. Like it or not, you're watching the best Notre Dame team in recent memory. I graduated in 1994, so ...
Dexter Williams one of 6 carries Photo Courtesy Goshen News
As we look ahead to Saturday afternoon's tie with NC State (6-1), one of the more notable avenues to explore is the superficial appeal of Notre Dame's dominant rushing offense taking on State's (seemingly) stout run defense. Notre Dame has the country's sixth-best rushing offense with 317.86 yards per game (ypg). NC State has the country's sixth-best run defense, allowing 91.29 ypg. Considering Josh Adams is accustomed to breaking off runs almost that long, are we really going to see Notre ...
Notre Dame students put hatred of Southern Cal to good use by accepting donations for swings at this car in 2011.
Last night's destruction of 11th ranked USC was perhaps the finest display by a Brian Kelly-led Notre Dame football team. Without question, the Trojan team that ambled into the stadium was missing some key players due to injury. But the great teams take advantage of those situations. Maybe USC's Heisman Trophy candidate Sam Darnold didn't play his best game. But the great teams capitalize on those situations. Notre Dame did almost everything right Saturday night, on their way to a 49-14 win for ...
After five games, and equaling last season's win total, your 2017 Fighting Irish are definitely running things the right way. Whether you look at the running game through five games or the defense against the run, The Irish are much better than they were last season. But you knew that just from watching the games, right? Notre Dame has so far looked the part, right? The statistics definitely back that up. At this point in 2016, The Irish were 2-3 and had most recently defeated Syracuse, the ...
The polls are now out after Week One, and your 1-0 Fighting Irish are now ranked in the Top Twenty-Five. AP has them at 24. The Coaches Poll has them at 25. Interestingly, the AP have us one spot ahead of Tennessee (1-0), who had a tough time handling Georgia Tech last night. This weekend's opponent, Georgia (1-0), is at 15 in both polls. ...
