A Notre Dame Football Blog
That. Felt. GOOD. Sure, not a soul on the active Notre Dame roster was around when South Florida kicked 2011 off into hell, but Brian Kelly, Tommy Rees, and all of us sure were. 52-0 heals a lot of wounds. We reminisce about the Irish blowout and also discuss the Big Ten finding new "medical data", Navy finding their mojo, FSU finding COVID, Miami finding their swagger, and Phil Jurkovec finding his game. Oh, and the ACC Sim came for blood, y'all. It was not messing around this ...
Courtesy of @ndmspaint who whipped this up during our recording.
Notre Dame fans have been constantly told that the Irish should just join the conference and play real football. Well, ND did and we've yet to lose a conference game. Wear it. Seriously, what's so hard about this? No, Big XII, you can sit down after getting trounced by the Sun Belt and the powerhouse that is *checks notes* Houston Baptist. FSU can take a seat as well after blessing us with a hilarious ACC opening loss to Georgia Tech. Oh, we talk a bunch of ND football against Duke ...
As we mentioned earlier in the week, the 2020 HLS Sim season will be in its own universe. Fans are in the stands, Notre Dame Stadium still has grass, and Kevin Austin magically has no injuries to speak off. Virtual Notre Dame begins their road to the virtual ACC title against Duke in an opening tilt in the rain. Y'all know the drill by now and if you don't...well, prepare for an experience unlike anything else. (Also, if you hear occasional pops/clipping on my audio, that isn't your ...
Could it be? Did we really all just witness a solid Notre Dame football game with minimal headaches? It seems too good to be true, but in a week in which many teams saw their seasons take a nose dive, Notre Dame strolled into Duke and came out with an easy W. It's a shorter episode for all the best reasons. It's the last time I roll solo this week, so come join for a recap of one hell of a week in college football and ND's second road victory of the season. ...
Y'all, it's finally time for college football to take off. With the calendar fully settled into November, we find ourselves with a loaded slate this weekend. The first college football playoff rankings are out. We have a top five game. We have multiple top 25 games. We have teams with fired coaches. We have teams with soon-to-be-fired coaches (hi, Southern Cal!). You've had a couple months to prepare for this insanity. Eddie and I are ready and at the altar of GAMBLOR as always. Come join ...
Notre Dame at Duke, unfortunately for some cable/dish subscribers, will be on the ACC Network, effectively blacking out some Irish fans. While I would certainly encourage you to connect with a local alumni clubs or hit up a sports bar, I understand the desire to want to watch in the comfort in your own home. So with that in mind, I wanted to throw something together as a resource for folks that haven't jumped into the cord-cutting world. The big bonus is that pretty much everyone has a free ...
I never liked the Brian VanGorder hire. VanGorder was hired in 2014, following the departure of Bob Diaco to become Connecticut's head coach. The criticism of Diaco was his "bend but don't break" approach made his defenses appear somewhat vanilla or "boring." So what? They were fundamentally sound, rarely beat themselves and were always in the top half of the nation in total defense. Much enthusiasm ensued when the Irish brought VanGorder and his NFL pedigree to South Bend. Many media ...
Notre Dame's Torii Hunter Jr. (16) breaks a tackle by Michigan State's Darian Hicks (2) during the Notre Dame-Michigan State game Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016 at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend. South Bend Tribune Photo/MICHAEL CATERINA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44yZu2P52qA Never forget. Unless you are trying to forget last week or the defense attempting to tackle. Feel free to shove that way the hell out of your minds (I've found booze helps). It's for your own sanity. Anyways, the prediction form, the spread, total, and all the rules are below as usual. You can find all bonus points, positive or otherwise, from last week below that followed by standings, staff picks, and cat picks (bastard got it right last ...
R.J. Shelton #12 of the Michigan State Spartans scores a touchdown in front of Drue Tranquill #23 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish during the first half of a game at Notre Dame Stadium on September 17, 2016 in South Bend, Indiana. Credit: Stacy Revere/Getty Images
We can now confidently conclude that the Texas loss was no aberration. It was not the result of a hostile crowd, an outmatched-but-inspired Texas team or some fixable defensive errors. Notre Dame is a deeply flawed team this year; last night confirmed that. It was almost hard to watch the Irish make huge errors on special teams, continue to play defense with the density of Swiss cheese and make questionable coaching decisions in a game they absolutely had to win. There was seemingly no ...
On Sept. 24, Notre Dame faces the Duke Blue Devils for only the fifth time in school history. The Irish currently hold a 3-1 advantage in the series. The most recent meeting between the two teams was in 2007, in which Jimmy Clausen and Robert Hughes lead the way to a relatively easy 28-7 Irish victory. Duke will pose a far tougher challenge this year. DUKE ON THE RISE The scariest part of this Duke team is their improved play over the last several years. Duke is no longer the joke football ...