Good morning! Now that Wednesday’s silliness is behind us, let’s take a look at all that transpired with the Notre Dame football program in the past 24 hours. Here are your headlines:
FROM OUR SITE
- ND women clinch fifth consecutive Final Four
- Rockne’s: A restaurant review (April Fools’ Day post)
- Blue-Game game cancelled due to fan complaints (April Fools’ Day post)
RECRUITING – OFFERED
- Cats Pause.com (F: Notre Dame offers 2017 offensive tackle (FL OL Dillan Gibbons, class of 2017, no rating yet)
- CUTigers ($): Four-star DE checks out Tigers (GA Chidi Okonya)
- Horns Digest (F): Top OL talks Longhorns and more (⭐⭐⭐ FL OG Parker Boudreaux)
- Horns Digest (F): Four-star DE likes Charlie Strong (⭐⭐⭐⭐ TX DE Justin Madubuike)
- Inside Tennessee ($): Vols’ Gillespie Holyfield’s ‘favorite’ (⭐⭐⭐⭐ GA RB Elijah Holyfield)
- Irish247 ($): Irish247 analysis: Austin Mack (⭐⭐⭐⭐ IN WR)
- Irish247 ($): Hunter Johnson talks Notre Dame visit (⭐⭐⭐⭐ IN QB)
- Pony Stampede ($): Sanford scouting reports (⭐⭐⭐⭐ TX CB Eric Cuffee)
- Scout ($): Deablo names a top four (⭐⭐⭐⭐ NC WR Divine Deablo)
- Scout ($): Gibbons relishes his brief stay in South Bend (FL OL Dillan Gibbons, class of 2017, no rating yet)
- Scout ($): Johnson discusses Michigan, Notre Dame (⭐⭐⭐⭐ IN QB Hunter Johnson)
RECRUITING – ND INTERESTED, BUT NO OFFER
- Big Red Report ($): Scales looks to visit Nebraska (⭐⭐⭐ MO TE Brendan Scales)
- Bruin Report Online ($): Video: Alloway at Passing Down (⭐⭐⭐⭐ CA WR Damian Alloway)
- Pack Pride ($): Wolfpack an early option for Skowronek (⭐⭐⭐ IN WR Ben Skowronek)
- Scout (F): Akinribade adds Michigan (⭐⭐⭐ IN RB Toks Akinribade)
- Scout ($): Cowboys standing out early (⭐⭐⭐⭐ UT ILB Sione Heimuli-Lund)
CURRENT TEAM
- Blue & Gold Illustrated: Mike Sanford sizes up QB competition
- CSN Sportsnet Chicago: Notre Dame expects stats will help clear up QB competition
- Irish247 (F): Data to help determine Notre Dame’s starting quarterback
- Irish Illustrated (F): Notre Dame’s Onwualu ready to get into it
- Irish Illustrated (F): New Irish guards
- Irish Illustrated (F): The ever-evolving Notre Dame offense
- QC Varsity: Alleman LB Murphy to walk-on at Notre Dame, fulfill dream
- WatchND: Spring practice report – April 1
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IRISH IN THE NFL
- Chicago Tribune: DaVaris Daniels hopes to carve out niche in NFL
- Irish247 (F): Riggs hopes versatility sways NFL scouts
- Irish Illustrated ($): Decoding Pro Day
- ND Insider: Former Notre Dame RB Cam McDaniel confident of shot at the NFL
- News-Sentinel: DaVaris Daniels returns to Notre Dame to showcase growth
- The Observer: Eleven former players return for Pro Day
COACHING
- Inside the Irish: Sanford trying to quantify quarterback competition
- Irish247 (F): Notre Dame adds to its recruiting staff
- Irish247 (F): Sanford touches on Notre Dame vs. Stanford
- Irish247 (F): Lyght’s teaching methods impress Kelly
- Irish247: Notre Dame RB coach Autry Denson
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- Irish247: Notre Dame TE coach Scott Booker
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- Irish247: Notre Dame OL coach Harry Hiestand
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- Irish247: Notre Dame OC Mike Sanford
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- Irish247: Notre Dame associate head coach Mike Denbrock
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- Irish Illustrated (F): No time to stop and smell the roses
- ND Insider: A seismic change? Staff, shifts could lead to new-look Irish
APRIL FOOLS’ DAY SHENANIGANS
- Neon Tommy: USC suspends Notre Dame football rivalry in protest of Indiana law
- One Foot Down: Hitting the links: April 1, 2015
- One Foot Down: Kyle Chandler as Coach Eric Taylor named Irish special teams coach
- One Foot Down: OFD Films: Fire Kelly now
- One Foot Down: Coach Brian Kelly selected as first ever “Admiral for a Week” by United States Navy
MISC.
- Slap the Sign: Digger Phelps & Ara Parseghian among best coaching duos
Notre Dame graduate, class of '02 (the Davie years!). A former newspaper and TV reporter, andrewwinn is now professionally involved in something far less fun to discuss than college football. A dad, a husband and a wannabe data nerd.
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