A Notre Dame Football Blog
Each week in this space, we examine two things: Notre Dame's strength of schedule (from USA Today's Sagarin rankings), and who Irish opponents are facing. For those of who want to scout future opponents, I'll give you my recommendation for who to watch when you're not watching Notre Dame Football. ...
Courtesy of @ndmspaint who whipped this up during our recording.
Winning is hard. This week, that was all too true as multiple teams in the top ten teams tasted defeat this week. Join Shane and I as we examine the bodies and talk about Notre Dame surviving a similar fate against Pitt. ...
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What could possibly ruin a wonderful season of Notre Dame football? Perhaps a game against Pittsburgh who always seems to play spoiler. Or maybe it's an internet rumor running wild. Well, both of those are on the table this week in the midst of an impressive slate of college football games. ...
Each week in this space, we examine two things: Notre Dame's strength of schedule (from USA Today's Sagarin rankings), and who Irish opponents are facing. For those of who want to scout future opponents, I'll give you my recommendation for who to watch when you're not watching Notre Dame Football. ...
Here is a playlist of every Notre Dame football game available on YouTube, as of today. There's about 500 games here, dating all the way back to 1913. ...
On November 1, 1913 Notre Dame established the forward pass as a legitimate offense in college football. Its purpose was to make the quarterback the most feared player on the field and propel the team to greatness. They succeeded. Today, the Navy calls him the guy that embarrasses them every year*. The Fighting Irish call him.... TOP QB *2007, 2009, and 2010 didn't exist...why the hell is everybody acting like they did? --------------------------- Tommy Rees packs up his locker for ...
via @LTorbin
Outlined against a clear-blue August sky, the Lone Horseman rode again. In dramatic lore he is known as the Purple-Faced Monster. This is only an alias. His real name is Brian Kelly. He trotted in front of his South Bend squad before which another practice would be held in the friendly confines of the Culver Academies as a handful of Fighting Irish Digital Media employees peered through their camera lenses and over their Twitter devices at the bewildering sight prancing on the synthetic field ...
That's right folks, THE Subway Domer has made a return for Her Loyal Podcast to talk about the Notre Dame/Pitt disaster with the Irish Twins. There is no preview needed! On the iTunes front, I think I'm (finally) getting things figured out (I hope). I'm hoping to have it all settled before BYU. Anyways, enough from me, let's get to it! ...
A look ahead at Brian Kelly's starting quarterback, Tommy Rees. (Robin Alam/Icon SMI)
Let's take a look at the last decade of Notre Dame/Pitt: Save for Weis making quite the debut against a very unprepared Pitt led by Dave Wannstedt, the ND/Pitt series has been defined by a single possession contest as of late. To be honest, it's really hard to explain why. For the most part, Pitt has been a medicore team that Notre Dame is usually better than. Last year's game was probably the best example of this: an undefeated Irish squad hanging on for dear life against a team that ...
Pittsburgh Skyline [Photo: Michael McCumber www.michaelmccumber.com/]
Yesterday I covered all of the Notre Dame related things to do while you are in Pittsburgh this weekend for the ND/Pitt game. Today I am going to cover the non Notre Dame related things that you should do while you are in the 'Burgh this weekend! (Three of my awesome Pittsburgh friends contributed to today's post and so I'll give them credit as credit is due!) Lets start with place to eat! Pierogies Plus - Pick up pierogies to go from Pierogies Plus in McKees Rocks. It's a ramshackle ...