Brian Kelly kicked off Notre Dame's 2013 season with a press conference at noon yesterday that left me no better informed on the program than I was at 11:59 AM. Perhaps that's a bit of an overstatement, but when the two biggest items that I took away from the presser were weight gains and that […]

This 5 player series dissects returning Irish players whose careers appear to be approaching "Now or Never" junctures. Each featured athlete enters Notre Dame's 2013 Fall Camp as a Junior. As members of the consensus Top 10 2011 Irish Recruiting Class, they know two of their original class members almost assuredly will go in the […]

And there it is… Eddie Vanderdoes is cleared to play at UCLA this year after his final appeal was heard on Monday to the NCAA. According to

With no games between the middle of January to the end of August, there is plenty of idle time to examine just about every aspect of the upcoming college football season. A big talking point during the offseason is the strength of schedule a team will be dealing with. Notre Dame once again appears to […]

This 5 player series dissects returning Irish players whose careers appear to be approaching "Now or Never" junctures. Each featured athlete enters Notre Dame's 2013 Fall Camp as a Junior. As members of the consensus Top 10 2011 Irish Recruiting Class, they know two of their original class members almost assuredly will go in the […]

As reported earlier, Notre Dame is heading to Marion for the first four days of training camp. Brian Kelly has stated that this has been in the works for a couple of years, but outside of 2011, I'm not sure if there was a better time to do this.  Brian Kelly is trying to manufacture […]

The week after Everett Golson's 2013 expulsion/suspension was confirmed I was fortunate enough to discuss what the aftermath might be with not one, but two former Notre Dame quarterbacks – Matt Mulvey & Evan Sharpley. In 2007 Sharpley started games against USC & NAVY and was a key backup to record setters Brady Quinn & […]

The week after Everett Golson's 2013 expulsion/suspension was confirmed I was fortunate enough to discuss what the aftermath might be with not one, but two former Notre Dame quarterbacks – Matt Mulvey & Evan Sharpley. Mulvey spent two years playing alongside Tommy Rees and roomed with Everett Golson during road games in 2011. Mulvey provides […]

The time may have finally come for all of those Irish fans that have questioned whether or not if Notre Dame would ever return to running the football with authority, to have their prayers answered or their nightmares come true. When Notre Dame hired Brian Kelly, we all thought we got a guy that ran […]

"I've come to find that writers write. I make time to write every single day." – Best Selling Author Nicholas Sparks (Notre Dame 88') The Irish alum, ND track record holder, and novelist who penned what later became the 2000's signature romantic film, The Notebook, dropped this nugget during an interview I had with him […]

Corey Holmes, a 4 star WR from St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida verbally commits to Notre Dame for the incoming class of 2014. 

With only 46 days until Notre Dame kicks off the season at home against Temple, we Irish fans are starting to get a little antsy. It's OK! As I've stated before, we all gotta do what we all gotta do to get through these final weeks- whatever that might be. However… before you go and […]

Notre Dame will enter the 2013 season deeper in the secondary than at any point in recent memory. The defensive backfield is also the deepest position grouping for the Irish this season. This, of course, is barring one or two injuries in fall camp (which we saw in 2012). The Irish are sitting at 4 […]

So here we sit. It's July and the natives are getting restless. The college football season kicks off on August 29th with a large handful of games (most of which are utterly terrible), but thankfully August will bring us fall camp and a return to some type of normalcy in the world of college football […]

Notre Dame's football season kicks off in 53 days and Tommy Rees is the starting quarterback for the Fighting Irish.  THAT'S FUCKING AWESOME BRO! GIVE HIM A THEME SONG! This is TOMMY REES. This is the kid that came out of nowhere to become the starting quarterback at Notre Dame as a freshman. This is […]