A Notre Dame Football Blog
The Irish got in a shootout Sunday night in Austin and lost in double overtime. It happens. This is not the beginning of the end. That’s not to gloss over some pretty poor coaching decisions: rotating QBs didn’t work––to put it mildly––the key 3rd and 12 play call, the wasted challenge on an obviously dropped INT; those are the ones the come to mind offhand, but there are probably others (We’ll save BVG, the defense, and the targeting non-call for another day). Kelly had a bad night. ...
AUSTIN, TX - Tyrone Swoopes #18 of the Texas Longhorns runs with the ball against Derrick Kindred #26 of the TCU Horned Frogs at Darrell K Royal -Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Chris Covatta/Getty Images)
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team will play the Texas Longhorns at 7:30 p.m. ET at Darrell K. Royal Stadium. ABC will broadcast the game. The forecast calls for clear skies with a few passing clouds, 5 to 10 mph winds and a low of 74 degrees. ...
Stanford Cardinal running back Christian McCaffrey (5) is brought down by Notre Dame Fighting Irish linebacker Greer Martini (48) and safety Elijah Shumate (22) during the first half at Stanford Stadium.
Notre Dame was 30 seconds short of a legitimate shot at the playoff last season. That’s a distant memory given the bowl loss to Ohio State and Jaylon Smith’s career-altering injury, but there it was nonetheless. Ranked No. 6...with the lead...on the road...against a Top 10 team...to close the season. A win would’ve only lead to an argument for a Top 4 spot, and a chance–if the conference championship games broke their way. But Kevin Hogan led a five-play, 45-yard drive to set up a game winning ...
There is, unquestionably, no more talked about position on Notre Dame’s depth chart heading in the the Blue Gold Game than quarterback. With most of the ND faithfully divided into #TeamMalik or #TeamKizer, there is actually real potential for the QB situation to get sideways on Offensive Coordinator Mike Sanford and, ultimately, Coach Kelly. Make no mistake: Every coach in the country would gladly take on the challenge of managing two high-level players at the most important position on the ...
Courtesy of @AlDogg44
Notre Dame’s men's basketball season is over (sadly, so too is the women's). Out again in the Elite 8. Lost again to a true blue blood program. Last year it was Kentucky. This year, North Carolina. And in the end, it’s likely the end of the line for the core group of players who compiled a 56-18 record in the last two seasons. Zach Auguste and Demetrius Jackson stepped up as the leaders of this year’s team with Jerian Grant and Pat Connaughton in the NBA. And they did so with on court ...
If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, do that now. In Part 2, we’re comparing numbers. To start, how has Notre Dame compared on the recruiting trail to its direct market competitors? (In Part 1 we defined the market as Ohio State, Michigan, Stanford and USC) Using 247sports.com composite team rankings, here are the ranks for each recruiting class: * Stanford only signed 13 players in 2013. I think the rankings draw out what we all probably thought to be true: Notre Dame and Stanford are peers; ...
I’ve been thinking about Notre Dame football from the management analyst point of view recently. There are few key areas a management analyst looks at right off the bat. How healthy is the organization? Is it obtaining and developing the available talent? Who are the other direct market competitors? And, what’s the value proposition of the organization? I think these questions give us important perspective on the state of Notre Dame football. Organizational Health For Notre Dame this a real ...
Fresh off the six year extension, Brian Kelly is set to become one of the longest tenured coaches in Notre Dame history. He earned the chance to make history by winning some pretty important games since arriving in South Bend in 2010 (though you could argue, not enough since 2013. But that’s for another post). None more than these five: #5 USC - 2012 (22-13): While USC was toiling under the mismanagement of Lane Kiffin, there is no denying that the circumstance makes this game a top five ...
Winning on Signing Day is critical to winning on Saturdays, or so we’re told. Given that it’s the middle of February and we’re a long way away from actual football, I decided to investigate the veracity of this so called truism. I went back to the 2009 season and compared 247sports composite team recruiting rankings, final BCS or Playoff Committee rankings, year-end AP rankings, wins/loss, and s/p+ strength of schedule for more than a dozen teams. There is a lot of really interesting data ...
Photo courtesy of Student Sports
Jonathan Jones, the three-star linebacker from Florida, became the key to Brain Kelly’s 2016 recruiting class. I doubt that anyone who followed this class would’ve have said that before Signing Day. But given that Caleb Kelly committed to Oklahoma - despite the Irish pushing hard until the end - and Ben Davis signing with Alabama, Jones “saved” the class, at least on the defensive side of the ball. Daelin Hayes, a 247sports composite four-star OLB and early enrollee, is certainly the ...