A Notre Dame Football Blog
Nov 8, 2014; Tempe, AZ, USA; Notre Dame Fighting Irish head coach Brian Kelly leads his players onto the field for the game against the Arizona State Sun Devils at Sun Devil Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports
Here are the headlines from the last 24 hours in the world of Notre Dame football. ...
I want to thank Tex for spending countless hours working on the redesign and giving the Morning Roundup a place on the Her Loyal Sons front page. Without further adieu, here's what's transpired in the world of Notre Dame football in the past 24 hours. FROM OUR SITE Good Fridays with Padre: Sunday Services Revisiting ND-Texas '96: A Win and a Wedding (guest post from Jamie Reidy '92) Friday Roundup: The "We Made It!" episode Scouting report: Texas NEXT GAME: vs. Texas (7:30 p.m. ...
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This preseason series highlights Notre Dame’s 2016 stars by personnel grouping and identifies who to watch on opposing teams. Today’s position group: the running backs. ...
Fall camp produces the perfect mix for any college football junkie - immeasurable aspirations coupled with unlimited potential. The 2016 Fighting Irish are no exception. Many positional battles follow #NDFB into fall camp and understandably so with the solid depth at all positions. Let's do a quick rundown of what to expect. Depth, baby! Everything this fall will revolve around the exceptional depth that has slowly been built year over year. The coaching staff has recruited exceptionally well ...
The South Bend Tribune's 96-page preview of Notre Dame's football team is an invaluable resource for the Irish fan looking to get informed before the 2016 football season kicks off Sept. 4. Mike Vorel wrote the magazine's cover story, "Avoiding A Split Decision," on the quarterback competition between redshirt sophomore DeShone Kizer and redshirt senior Malik Zaire. Vorel interviewed former Texas head coach Mack Brown, former Notre Dame quarterbacks Joe Theismann and Brady Quinn and ESPN's ...
The Trojans open as 6.5 point favorites over the Irish for the Nov. 26 matchup at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. SEASON OUTLOOK "The Trojans' entire schedule is a meat grinder," said FOX Sports' Bruce Feldman. "Eleven of their 12 opponents played in bowl games last season. The opener is against defending national champion Alabama in Texas. The closest of their three non-conference games to being seen as a breeze is against a Utah State team that has won 36 games the past four seasons ...
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2015 starters lost: C.J. Prosise - 156 attempts, 1032 yards, 54.1% of snaps Incoming freshmen: Tony Jones and Deon McIntosh Tarean Folston was supposed to be the foundation that supported a very inexperienced backfield. Seven plays into the 2015 season, it was on to Plan B. Folston, the team's leading rusher in 2014, tore the ACL in his right knee on his third carry from scrimmage. C.J. Prosise, newly converted to the backfield, entered the game having amassed just 10 career ...
Pope Pope Pope Pope. Is no one aware that we have a football season underway? Well, certainly not the Pope, since his idea of a football is round, you can’t touch it, and you play with it on a pitch. Yes, for Catholics (and, strangely, also for non-Catholics) a Papal visit is very exciting. It is an element of our religion, of our belief system, to recognize the supremacy of the Pope. But it’s also an important element of faith for both Catholics and many, many others, to recognize the supremacy ...
of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish during the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl against the LSU Tigers at LP Field on December 30, 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee.
As the near perfection of Saturday's home opener against Texas continued to dance in the heads of Notre Dame fans everywhere, the other shoe seemed like it had to drop just around the corner. That shoe came in the form of Tarean Folston's injury news. The junior running back has officially been ruled out due to a torn right ACL for the rest of the season following his Sunday MRI. The injury occurred during Notre Dame's second offensive possession and the 2014 leading rusher never returned to ...
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I certainly understand that Notre Dame Football offseasons are never quiet these days. That being said, I would not have imagined that, in the same offseason, we'd witness a single player get suspended, become ineligible due to academics, and now decide to enroll in a JUCO: https://twitter.com/FBcoachMitchell/status/631590875076907008 Remember the days in which Moons waxed poetic regarding the expectations for Bryant in 2015? Those were happier days. Now, before I go much further, I ...