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Sheldon Day
Finding the Bottom
I'm not even sure where exactly to start with the mess that was Notre Dame's loss to Northwestern. Typing "Notre Dame's loss to Northwestern" doesn't even make sense to me. The Irish lost and gave up 43 points to a team that hasn't even cracked 30 all season. Iowa blew these guys out. But here we are in what I consider the worst loss since I walked on to campus in 2003. Oh sure, we've lost to worse teams, but those ND teams were objectively terrible. While this team isn't ...
Irish Blogger Gathering: Devil Went Down to Tempe
The IBG is back once again and getting back to the normal weekly schedule. This weekend, Notre Dame is in a fight for their playoff lives in a top ten matchup on the road. Sound familiar? So it's time for representatives from NDNation, UHND.com, The Fighting Irish Blog, and the godfather of the IBG, The Subway Domer, to put Navy to bed and take a look at what's ahead. Let's get to it. My question: Based on how the rankings this week, do you feel any differently about a too-close-for ...
CFB Week 7: A Tale of Two…
(Apologies for the delay. Typically I try to have this out Sunday, but a needed ND re-watch and the Cowboys actually doing good football things delayed this.) Fumbles Everett Golson, 1st Quarter Everett Golson, 3rd Quarter Everett's first fumble to start the game, while terrible and costly, could be mostly forgiven. You could certainly argue that Golson should have better pocket presence and not step directly into a death trap. Still, that was not nearly as bad as Golson coughing the ball ...
HLS TV Episode 2: Michigan Still Hasn’t Scored on Notre Dame
After attending Notre Dames awesome shutout performance against Michigan, both Molly Moran and I are back with another episode of HLS TV. Included in this episode is about thirty minutes of us being downright giddy about the result, raving about Notre Dame's performance, and fighting through technical difficulties that I had to edit out. Seriously, Google+, why do you hate HLS so much? WHAT DID WE EVER DO TO YOU?! Anyways, let's revel in Michigan despair because the 24 hour rule doesn't ...
Friday Roundup: The “Notre Dame Fall Camp 2014 Catch-Up” Edition
Once WatchND started pumping out Notre Dame football fall camp practice videos, I was all in for breaking each one down. It worked great for the first two practices, but then practice #3 happened and saw the video breakdown was a position profile for the CBs. Don't get me wrong, the feature was great, but a basically started at my title of "Fall Camp Practice Report #3: CB Report" for about an hour and realized there was no way that I could even drag 100 words out of the topic. So I passed ...
Friday Roundup: The “Horseman” Edition
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 ...
Notre Dame Fall Camp Practice #1 Report (August 4, 2014)
Yesterday, Notre Dame football kicked off fall camp at the Culver Academies. The long offseason is quickly coming to a close and we have some actual football things to look at. Let's dive headfirst with two practice recaps. One from WatchND and another from the Elkhart Truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MogRpFGys8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snCgcfYw5_E Some quick observations: I am so, so happy to see Everett back under center (or back in the gun taking snaps, ...
A New Day: Sheldon Day At The Head Of A New D-Line
At the start of the 2013 season, Notre Dame Head Coach Brian Kelly extolled one of his D-linemen as an every down guy, a player of boundless skill and potential. Perhaps surprisingly, he wasn't talking about the then highly heralded Louis Nix, III, or Stephon Tuitt or even the enigmatic Ishaq Williams. Instead, Coach Kelly was talking about a rising sophomore, Sheldon Day, who, as a Junior in 2014, may be the key to Irish championship aspirations. While the return of Everett Golson and the ...
Defending the Option: Who Takes Over for Te’o?
Before the Irish started their 2012 season against Navy, I had a detailed post describing how Bob Diaco runs Notre Dame's defense against an option attack. In short, Diaco throws the 3-4 away for such games and switches to a more traditional 4-3 look. The catch though, was that Diaco had another wrinkle in the assignment football that you usually see in the option: Manti Te'o. To refresh, here's how ND started to assign players to defend the option after the 2010 disaster in the ...