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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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Organized Chaos Describes Notre Dame Linebacking Corps this Spring
Coming in to spring football we knew that the biggest puzzle for the Irish coaching staff to solve was going to be linebacker. We also knew not to expect any…
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Ovie Oghoufo, Notre Dame’s Next Julian Okwara? Brian Kelly Thinks So
Brian Kelly sure knows how to set some high expectations on a rising sophomore who didn’t play a down as a freshman who’s learning a new position this spring. After…
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Notre Dame TE Cole Kmet Ditching Baseball for Football for Now
The Notre Dame football team is getting another two sport start to give up their second sport to focus their attention to the gridiron this spring. Rising junior Cole Kmet,…
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Notre Dame WR Braden Lenzy on the Upswing
If you’ve been following Notre Dame football, you’ve probably noticed a few tweets like this: “Braden Lenzy has looked good this spring.” – Brian Kelly — Irish Sports Daily (@ISDUpdate)…
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Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players for Spring 2019
Notre Dame (12-1) will be looking to build off of their 1st playoff appearance under Brian Kelly with a roster full of depth, talent and returning experience. Let's take a…
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Should Notre Dame’s Ian Book Throw More Picks?
In the spring, folks. Should he throw more picks in the spring? It appears that he’s thinking about it. Following Notre Dame’s opening practice of spring ball, Book spoke to…
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Can Notre Dame Find Playmakers at Wide Receiver this Spring?
The storyline from the Cotton Bowl meltdown for Notre Dame was the glaring difference at the skill positions. Clemson’s wide receivers were just on another level and made plays even…
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Linebacker Is Biggest Puzzle for Notre Dame to Solve in 2019
There isn’t a more intriguing position group on the Notre Dame football roster heading into spring football this year than the linebacking corps. After losing two stalwarts from the last…
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For Notre Dame Football, Closing The Gap Not As Hard As Some Think
There has been a lot of talk about the ceiling of the Notre Dame football team since the Cotton Bowl loss to national champion Clemson. “The Irish have hit their…
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30 Years Later, Notre Dame Still Looking for the Next Rocket
On Monday, Rocket Ismail’s long wait to be named to the College Football Hall of Fame ended. It was a honor that was long, long overdue for one of the…
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Looking for Love Again: Where Notre Dame Goes at Corner
We all read into every word Julian Love said about the NFL versus coming back for a senior season leading up to the Cotton and let ourselves believe that we…
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Don’t Look Now But Notre Dame Needs Another Quarterback Competition This Spring
The headline will be more alarming than it should be, but it is nonetheless true. Generally, people hate quarterback competitions; they are awkward, can divide the team (as Drue Tranquill…
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