A former NFL quarterback didn't mince words when asked about Coach Brian Kelly's decision to play both DeShone Kizer and Malik Zaire at quarterback for Notre Dame. ...
Carson Palmer, left, and his younger brother, Jordan.
Bruce Feldman
Does Notre Dame Really Only Employ Three People for Athletic Academic Support?
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 ...
Friday Roundup: The “Please Excuse the Rant” Edition
Fair warning: the Roundup is leading with Penn State. If you are rather sick of reading about it, and I don't blame you, feel free to skip over to the Roundup links for your regular Friday programming. I've tried to keep most of the Jerry Sandusky news out of previous Roundups, save for major developments. Not because I wish to avoid the situation, but because it has just dominated the offseason news cycle and there wasn't much for me to add besides additional disgust. But then the Freeh ...