Mr. Swarbrick, I like you. I really do. But it's a 2-6 Maryland team the Irish are facing this weekend. At a pro-football stadium in DC. Can we not just watch the Irish show up to the game without any gimmicks and kick some ass? Because that's all the fans really want to see. That's all that would be interesting. Plus these helmets remind me of the scenes in my life that made "That 70s Show" resonate so strongly. ...
ND to the ACC
...for a short-term engagement. Earlier this year, we argued that, should ND be forced to join a conference, the ACC is their best option. And now Notre Dame has the opportunity to get a pretty good idea of what that would feel like, as the Irish get set to take on 3 consecutive ACC opponents: Wake Forest, Maryland, and Boston College. For the unitiated, the ACC is divided into 2 divisions, the Atlantic and the Coastal Divisions. And all 3 of the Irish opponents over the next 3 weeks ...
A Fresh Coat of Paint
We got jealous of the new helmets, I guess. Read on if you want details, or just skip this, and go read the metric ton of new content the guys decided to produce in one day. ...
A BCS Problem Means Irish Must Burn Troy
Earlier last week the National Football Foundation released the first rankings of the 11th season of the Bowl Championship Series. In that time, the Irish have spent some portion of 5 seasons ranked in the BCS rankings, and, of course, the Irish have managed to gain an invitation to one of the BCS bowls 3 times. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish went unranked in this first series of BCS rankings, which places the Irish in a tricky spot. Much discussion among fans and pundits has been spent ...
Bye Week Open Thread
Smell that? That's the smell of a stress free football weekend. Drop by our Gameday open thread and join the totally chill conversation! ...
Watch Out
This weekend marks a real opportunity for Notre Dame fans. To many Notre Dame fans this off week is the chance to not worry about football at all. Anecdotally, it seems this is the one weekend in autumn when Irish fans concentrate on things like weddings, landscaping, baseball, and restaurant weeks, but not football. In fact, some research we've done (and yes, we'll share that some day) indicates that a pretty good number of Notre Dame football fans aren't actually fans of college football at ...
Time Well Spent Goes Ham
I'm not even sure what that means! But holy cow, I suspect if it feels like we haven't seen a victory quite like the one we just saw last weekend in ages, it's got something to do with not seeing an Irish team spend their time with the ball so effectively in years. Quickly, if you're unfamiliar with our made-up statistic (making up stats is all the rage!), it's pretty simple: Time Well Spent is the proportion of a team's time of possession spent actually producing points. ...
The Snowman Scramble
Hey gang! Like golf? Like helping a member of the Notre Dame family? Anywhere within driving distance of St. Louis on October 17th? Yeah!? Good! Keep reading! I am currently working on a project with Jack Snow's (ND'65) daughter Stephanie. She has reached out to me to help her with a golf tournament benefiting the Jack & JT Snow Fund to help find a cure for Wolfram's Syndrom, which her daughter is currently fighting, on Monday, October 17 in St. Louis. Here is some background info from ...
ND vs Air Force Gameday Thread
Just kicked it off. Click here to join the conversation in our Sideline forum! ...
Looking Back on What’s To Come: The Falcons May Be More Sore Than Soaring
It's really only natural that Irish fans see that a military academy is up next on the football schedule, and feel a bit guy-shy about the prospects of the Notre Dame defense facing off against an option attack. The relatively fresh mental picture of the Navy fullback and/or quarterback running unimpeded up the middle of the Irish defense is probably permanently seared into the memories of Irish fans - at least those who can manage to stop mentally blocking the horror. So it comes as no ...