Year: 2010
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ESPN Picks Notre Dame’s Top 5
ESPN’s Brian Bennett published a list of Notre Dame’s top 5 players for the 2010 season on Thursday and the list is a little interesting. Here’s how Bennett ranked the…
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A Look Back – Charlie Weis’s First Season
With the season quickly approaching and the dawn of a new coaching regime on the horizon, we are going to look back at some recent first seasons from former Notre…
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USC Releases Henderson from LOI
USC hasn’t experienced quite the max exodus that some expected when sanctions were imposed on them by the NCAA last month, but Tuesday they suffered their biggest loss when they…
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Here Come the Irish 2010
This year’s edition of Here Come the Irish is hitting newsstands in early July and once again delivers the best Notre Dame season preview on the market. I was lucky…
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Some Recruiting Catch-up
A lot has happened in the world of Notre Dame recruiting over the last 10 days. Unfortunately I picked a really bad time to get pretty busy and we’ve fallen…
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Irish Stewed: Waking Up the Echoes and Shutting Up the Idiots
Chicago Tribune sportswriter David Haugh recently penned an almost obscenely ill-informed editorial on Notre Dame football that I feel requires a slightly more informed response. His article rehashes the same…
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Thank You Texas
The University of Texas announced on Monday that they would be staying in the Big 12 after flirting with leaving the conference for the Pac 10 last week. Oklahoma, Texas…
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Big 12 Making Last Stand
ESPN reported on Sunday that the Big 12 is making a final stand by trying to convince Texas and other schools looking to leave the conference to stay in the…
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Dominoes Begin to Fall, Notre Dame Not Affected… Yet
The dominoes have begun to fall in the seismic shift in the conference landscape of college football many have been predicting for months, but so far none of the moves…
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NCAA Drops the Hammer on USC
After years of investigating alleged major violations that took place at USC under Pete Carroll, the NCAA announced Wednesday that the alleged violations were indeed real violations serious enough to…
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Notre Dame, Boston College Extend Series
The Notre Dame – Boston College series was set to expire after the 2010 season before the two agreed to the extend the series until 2019 according to the Boston…
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Mike Ragone Charged with Pot Possession
Notre Dame senior to be Mike Ragone was charged with a misdemeanor charge of marijuana possession after a weekend arrest following a tragic stop on Route 80 a few miles…
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Don’t Act Like You’re Not Impressed
New head coach Brian Kelly hasn’t even reached the May evaluation period in his first year in South Bend yet he and his staff have already collected nine verbal commitments…
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Notre Dame Adds Matthew Hegarty
The Brian Kelly recruiting train is picking up steam with Notre Dame receiving its fifth verbal commitment of the week and ninth overall on Wednesday in the form of offensive…
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Irish Pick Up 5-Star TE Ben Koyack
Brian Kelly picked up the first 5-star recruit recruit of his Notre Dame career on Monday when tight end Ben Koyack became the 8th member of the class of 2011.…
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Notre Dame Picks Up 3 Commitments
The 81st Blue-Gold game was as productive off the field as it was on the field with Notre Dame adding three members to the recruiting class of 2011 – Tony…
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Notes from the 2010 Blue/Gold Game
Here are some notes and observations from this year’s Blue/Gold game. Tai-ler Jones is going to be a great player. Jones looked as good as any wide receiver on the…
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The Shirt 2010 Unveiled
This year’s version of The Shirt was unveiled Friday night. Here’s a look at this year’s version. The front features a nice, simple layout with “We Are the Fighting Irish”…
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Eric Olsen, Sam Young Picked in 6th Round
Notre Dame had two more players drafted during the final day of the 2010 NFL Draft on Saturday with both Eric Olsen and Sam Young getting selected in 6th round…
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Golden Tate Headed to Seattle
Golden Tate will start his NFL career playing for the same coach that roamed the sidelines of Notre Dame’s biggest rival over the course of his Notre Dame career after…
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Clausen Taken 48th By Carolina
Jimmy Clausen’s draft slide has finally come to an end. The Carolina Panthers, making their first pick of the draft, secured potentially one of the biggest steals of the draft…
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Jimmy Clausen Falls Out of 1st Round
Many people had been predicting a Brady Quinn-like draft day tumble for Jimmy Clausen for weeks now. Turns out those people were wrong – his fall is worse. Clausen went…
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2010 Notre Dame Draft Preview
The NFL Draft kicks off later tonight with the first round being broadcast in prime time for the first time ever. Here’s a preview of where some former Notre Dame…
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Notre Dame Draft Busts & Steals Revisited
Last year I did a couple of posts with the greatest Notre Dame Draft Steals and Busts and with the NFL Draft just days away, I figured I would report…
