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Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players for 2019: #25-21
Every year a bunch of Notre Dame sites all rank the top 25 Notre Dame football players on the Irish roster for the upcoming season. Apparently, our invite keeps getting…
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Notre Dame Football’s Top 5 Impact Freshmen for 2019
The last two years of the college football playoffs have shown the world multiple freshmen can make an immediate impact even on top tier teams loaded with talented upperclassmen. Last…
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Q&A with Notre Dame Insider: Will Ian Book Progress, Bowl Prediction, & More
We were lucky enough to score a Q&A session with Tyler James from the South Bend Tribune’s Notre Dame Insider as we are on the verge of training camp starting…
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Can Brandon Wimbush Help Notre Dame Solve Their Linebacker Concerns?
Last year Notre Dame was in a tough spot on offense. They knew they weren’t going to have their top running back in the opener, they had just lost Josh…
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Could Offensive Continuity Make The Difference For Notre Dame In 2019?
There is a tendency to assume following a 12-1 season that everything went right. You need injury breaks, breaks in games, just good luck in general. At least when it…
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What’s Going On At Corner For Notre Dame?
When it comes to the cornerback position for Notre Dame in 2019, there is one thing we know: Troy Pride is going to start at one of the spots. It…
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Claypool, Armstrong, and Kmet: Who Will Break Out For Notre Dame In 2019?
Notre Dame lost their top running back, wide receiver, and tight end following the 2018 12-1 season. Those three players accounted for 2,360 all-purpose yards, 111 receptions, and 24 total…
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How Good Are Notre Dame’s Best: The Offensive And Defensive Lines
A long held belief of mine over the years is you’re only as good as your best guys. The margins matter, of course, and if left unattended they can cost…
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Notre Dame’s Khalid Kareem Is Getting Overlooked Nationally
As the calendar has flipped to July, preseason All American lists are starting to come out and plenty of Notre Dame players are getting mentioned on various lists. Julian Okwara,…
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Will Shaun Crawford Be Healthy Enough To Solidify Notre Dame’s Defense In 2019?
Over the last few seasons, there is one thing that has been consistent throughout that time: if Shaun Crawford is available, Notre Dame can field an excellent nickel defense. If…
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Where Does Brian Kelly Have Notre Dame Football Headed?
“We’re not where we want to be, but thank goodness we aren’t where we used to be.” This is a quote former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz has used on…
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Reassessing Notre Dame’s No So Bare Running Back Cupboard
Notre Dame received one of the biggest verbal commitments they’ve gotten in quite some time last week when top-30 running back Chris Tyree committed to the Irish. It was the…
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Notre Dame DE Khalid Kareem Putting in WORK This Off-Season
We are still more than two months away from the start of fall camp for Notre Dame in 2019, but that doesn’t mean some of the vital cogs for the…
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100 Days Until Notre Dame Football: An Early Look at the Opener
It’s only 100 days until the Notre Dame Fighting Irish take on the Louisville Cardinals at Cardinal Stadium. This year’s season opener will be taking place in primetime Labor Day…
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Close To The 2017 Recruiting Cycle Paying Huge Dividends For Notre Dame In 2019
The 2016 season was an abject disaster for the Notre Dame football team. The 4-8 record. The loss to Duke at home, the hurricane game, the USC debacle. The program…
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Defensive Overreactions from the Notre Dame Blue Gold Game
Sunday we ran through all of the immediate overreactions on the offensive side of the ball from the 2019 Notre Dame Blue – Gold game. Today we’re moving over to…
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Immediate Overreactions on Offense: 2019 Notre Dame Blue Gold Game
With Notre Dame’s spring football season concluded with yesterday’s nationally televised Blue – Gold game and no football to keep us busy for a few months, it’s overreaction season. It…
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Notre Dame Football: 2 Main Takeaways Following The Spring Game
Football in the spring is such a tease. It ends in January and is mostly gone for two months, only to return in March for five glorious weeks, and then…
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Chase Claypool Poised To Be A Star For Notre Dame In 2019
We’ve been here before with Chase Claypool. At least I have. A little over two years ago, I declared the upcoming year to be the season of Claypool. He appeared…
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6 Players Notre Dame Needs to Step Up in 2019
With spring football wrapping down this week and concluding with the Blue & Gold game on Saturday, we’ve learned a little about just where the Irish currently stand in their…
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Don’t You Forget About Chris Finke at WR for Notre Dame
The talk all spring for Notre Dame at the wide receiver has rightfully centered around how the Irish offense can unlock the potential of potential game changing receivers in the…
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Notre Dame’s 2018 Recruiting Class Surging In Spring Ball
One of the smaller surprises of the 2018 season, of which there were many, was how small a factor the 2018 recruiting class ultimately played in its success. On one…
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5 Reasons Notre Dame Will Field A Top 10 Offense In 2019
The last time Notre Dame finished in the top 10 offensively according to S&P+ was in 2015. That team used an efficient and mobile quarterback, a strong offensive line, dynamic…
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Notre Dame Freshman Lawrence Keys Excelling Under The Radar
Notre Dame signed four wide receivers in the 2018 recruiting class: Kevin Austin, Braden Lenzy, Micah Jones, and Lawrence Keys. The most high profile of the quartet was Austin; a…
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5 Breakout Players for Notre Dame This Spring
The Fighting Irish will be looking to get back to the playoffs in 2019, but will have to replace several key players off of last year’s 12-1 team. With spring…
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