A Notre Dame Football Blog
What are trap games? Well, for starters these games tend to be against teams that are ranked just outside the Top 25. This, of course, means a win over the Irish is sure to catapult them into the Top 25 in the subsequent week's rankings. Another aspect of trap games include the level of play. Either the unranked underdog plays up to Notre Dame's talent level or, unfortunately, the Irish seep down to the underdog's level of play. When both of these happen simultaneously, it is a recipe for ...
On Sunday, the ACC announced that its Men's Basketball Player of the Year (POY) was Duke's Jahlil Okafor, the Blue Devils' freshman phenom and 6'11" center. Notre Dame's Jerian Grant came in second, with fourteen votes to Okafor's forty-four. The purpose of this post is to compare the two players to see if the voters got it wrong. http://youtu.be/IUcFNy_s-Gw To clear up my central conceit, I did not consider any other players given the discrepancy in voting. After Grant's fourteen votes, ...
Despite there being no football game or national championship won, this last weekend should go down as one of the more important, if not the first ever, of 2014. As Friday became Saturday, and the temperatures in Purcell Pavillion rose on account of the nattering nabobs of the nation's assembled media, as Saturday became Sunday, and the temperatures outside plunged and record snow whited-out the landscape, Notre Dame filled the non-weather-related headlines. Saturday saw Coach Mike Brey's ...