Brady Quinn

Notre Dame Offense: A Question of Identity

January 12, 2015 by Ryan Ritter

After reading Moons' excellent HLS debut, I started thinking a lot about one of the corollary questions that inevitably arises with any discussion of the Notre Dame offense under Brian Kelly. While we have loads of stats and trends for the offense, the "identity" question seemingly never gets an answer. In fact, as I listened to the most recent Power Hour this past week, that same question arose without a real answer. Just what does Notre Dame do well and why does it seem that Brian Kelly can't ...

The Irish Blogger Gathering Returns for the Final Hate Week

September 4, 2014 by Ryan Ritter

Yes, everyone, the Irish Blogger Gathering (IBG) is indeed back this season. We took last week off because: I was late in rounding everyone up this season. We decided that we beat the offseason to death already. So now that Rice is in the books, it's go time. This year the IBG has a familiar cast of characters: myself, Mike Coffey of NDNation, Aaron Horvath of the official ND Football blog, Frank Vitovitch of UHND.com, and the return of The Subway Domer! You may notice Keith ...

Friday Roundup: The “Brian Kelly Hates the Goal Line” Edition

August 1, 2014 by Ryan Ritter

So last week, I spent a lot of time discussing how the change were good and the new FieldTurf is just one example of progress. This week, I realize that I have failed you. Just watch the final time lapse of the FieldTurf installation. Let's see if you notice it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d40pJ_tL-2I Did you see it? You probably missed it. The distraction of plastic cancer-causing grass, kickoff shamrock logos, and midfield monograms likely distracted you from the truth. Let's try ...

A Notre Dame Thank You to Veterans

November 18, 2013 by Lisa

[Story courtesy of Rick Mirer and Irish Player Charities] Irish Player Charities, a Notre Dame affinity social network community, thanks all Veterans for their service. We also want to salute Rocky Bleier and name Brady Quinn’s 3rd and Goal Foundation as IPC’s featured foundation for November. Rick Mirer, founder of the affinity social network community "Irish Player Charities" announces Brady Quinn’s 3rd and Goal Foundation will be the featured charity for November. He also announces ...

Tabling the Issue: How Does Everett Golson Do?

March 13, 2013 by Bayou Irish

One of the things I wanted to do this off season is see where Everett Golson fits in among his peers, and, thanks to the statistics nerds at www.und.com, I was able to pull all the data I needed (except for 1998) (WTH?) from the source, as it were. So, with a data-set of 21 years, I looked at each QB's Total Passing Yards (TPY), Attempts (Atts), Completions (Comps), Completion Percentage (%), Touchdowns (TD's) and Interceptions (INT's). To qualify, a quarterback had to start four games in a ...

Looking Back at East Lansing

September 13, 2012 by Twibby

Two of Notre Dame’s last three visits to East Lansing have come down to the last few minutes, with each team’s fan base having one chance to relish an extraordinary victory and one misfortune of experiencing soul-crushing defeat. In 2006, a week after Mario Manningham and the Michigan Wolverines effectively ended Notre Dame’s national championship hopes (it still stings), Brady Quinn and the Irish came out flat with Michigan State jumping to a 17-0 lead in the first quarter. With the Spartans ...