Academics

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Notre Dame Unmatched On and Off the Field

September 17, 2014 by WhiskyPoet

Through three weeks, Notre Dame has already blown past expectations for 2014. And they've grossly exceeded moral expectations for any football program, professional or college. The 3-0 record may have been foreseen at this point by many Irish fans, but did we know that there would be two 30-plus point victories? Did we know that we'd have a poor performance against a rival and still find a way to coast to a victory (which is more than we could say at this point in 2012)? Did we know that ...

Does Notre Dame Really Only Employ Three People for Athletic Academic Support?

August 25, 2014 by Ryan Ritter

This evening, I saw what I thought was a very strange factoid pop up in my timeline. Bruce Feldman had claimed that Notre Dame only had three people on an academic support staff for its student-athletes: https://twitter.com/BryanDFischer/status/504046632015364096 This didn't make any sense to me at all. For long time readers of this site, you are likely aware that I was a student manager while at Notre Dame. As a manager, I had access to the same academic support as athletes did and boy ...

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Eric Hansen: Notre Dame and North Carolina Comparison “a rookie mistake”

August 21, 2014 by Ryan Ritter

When the flood gates opened this past Friday on the news that Notre Dame had opened up an investigation into academic fraud, perhaps the most damning quote came from the South Bend Tribune's Eric Hasen. In his original article (which has since been edited quite heavily as new information came to light), the ND football beat reporter said the following (which is now gone from the article): The probe, according to a source, goes back four years. The source also told the South Bend Tribune the ...

How Do You Spell Success? N-F-L? G-S-R? A-P-R?

May 12, 2014 by Bayou Irish

The 2014 NFL Draft is in the books, and with it comes a reflection on success. For the eight Irish players who were drafted, they're basking in some form of success. But what I want to examine in today's piece is whether or not there is a difference in the success enjoyed by, say, Prince Shembo, and the success enjoyed by Troy Niklas? I also want to examine whether, or not, with this draft class, we can say that Coach Brian Kelly's regime has been a success? Is the program successful? Let's ...

Friday Roundup: The “Dark and Stormy Night” Edition

June 21, 2013 by Bayou Irish

Happy summer, loyal reader. Here in the Crescent City, the twenty-first day of June is not celebrated, or even noticed much. We don't pay the passing of spring into summer too much mind, to be honest. Instead, we mark the other seasons: crab, shrimp, oyster, crawfish, Mardi Gras, and hurricane. We're in hurricane season now. The crabs are running, there's plenty of shrimp, and the oysters are just fine, thanks, but while sucking them down, we're watching for whatever invest or low or trough they ...

NCAA 2013 Data Released!

June 12, 2013 by Bayou Irish

It's been a hot summer so far in the Big Easy. The lazy whirl of the ceiling fans above the grand porch at The Columns Hotel is no longer enough to keep the cubes of ice in my daily cocktail from melting far too fast. The air rushing through the open windows of the streetcar is now a reasonable facsimile of an open oven on Thanksgiving Day. My seersucker suits are now unable to keep pace with the sweat... what? It's not summer for another eight days? Oh, you're kidding me. And let's face it. ...