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Notre Dame Fans Need to R-E-L-A-X
A week in college football that is supposed to be known more for National Signing Day – where recruits officially sign the dotted line on their future college destinations –…
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2015 Notre Dame Defense – An Early Glimpse
Three overarching factors will impact the 2015 Fighting Irish Defense. First, it is the second year of the Brian Van Gorder defense. While Van Gorder and Kelly, for counter-espionage reasons,…
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CJ Prosise Ready to Be Unleashed for Notre Dame in 2015?
If there is a player on the Notre Dame roster whose season exemplified the nature of the 2014 Fighting Irish being oh so close to being great but just not…
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A New Notre Dame Offense or One Game Wonder?
Notre Dame ran the football 51 times against LSU in the Music City Bowl earlier this week – tied for the most attempts during the five year Brian Kelly era…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against LSU?
Hard by the banks of the Cumberland River, and in easy walking distance of the cathedral of country music, the Ryman Aauditorium, the Fighting Irish defeated those long, thick, swift …
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Can Bowl Win Propel Notre Dame into 2015?
Leave it to Dr. Lou to wait all of two minutes after Notre Dame’s season ending win over LSU in the 2014 Music City Bowl to start Notre Dame’s 2015…
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Kyle Brindza’s Redemption Saves Notre Dame
Senior kick Kyle Brindza had a rough season in 2014. His field goal percentage plummeted to just 56.5 percent, nearly 20 points below his career average, while missing several crucial…
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Aggressive Approach Key to Notre Dame Defeating LSU
Notre Dame and the rest of college football may be tired of hearing it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
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Notre Dame – LSU Bowl Matchup Brings Opportunity, Challenges
Still reeling from an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the USC Trojans, the Notre Dame football program had numerous unanswered questions circling overhead. Is the program headed in the…
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Notre Dame Quarterback Malik Zaire Rare Bright Spot
Fighting Irish fans that tuned into Notre Dame’s annual rivalry game against Southern California this past Saturday hoping the ailing program would show signs of rejuvenation were sorely disappointed. Instead…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against USC?
Ugliness, embarrassment, second disaster of the year. USC, resisting the temptation to run up the score, buried the Irish 49-14, sending the Irish to its first four game losing streak…
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For Notre Dame, It’s Often Darkest Before Dawn
NOTRE DAME has won four national championships in the post-Leahy era: 1) 1966, 2) 1973, 3) 1977, .and 4) 1988. There were myriad near-misses: ’64, ’70, ’80, ’89, ’93, ’12. While past performance…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against Louisville?
The Fighting Irish lost their third straight game as the Louisville Cardinals befouled Senior Day, 31-28. It is axiomatic to football’s unforgiving math that a team’s stronger units must compensate…
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Notre Dame Head Coach Brian Kelly Faces Tough Questions
Brian, we need to have a sidebar. The kind of sidebar I watched you attempt to have with starting quarterback Everett Golson after a turnover against Northwestern before he brushed…
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Duranko’s Digest: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame’s 1956 Heisman Winner
With Louisville coming in on Saturday, the 22d, Louisvillians will mark this as their first visit to South Bend for football purposes. But over 60 years ago, in a galaxy…
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Duranko’s Digest: What did we see against Northwestern?
Northwestern beat Notre Dame 43-40 in a game that was as repulsive in its unfolding as the result. It was a bad loss to a bad football team, which may…
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Where Does Notre Dame Football Go From Here?
Saturday’s 55-31 blowout loss to Arizona State did more than knock Notre Dame completely out of the college football playoff picture and plummet the Fighting Irish seven spots to…
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Duranko’s Digest: Notre Dame’s Disaster in the Desert
On a weekend when the sports media bubbled over with Veteran’s Day references, Notre Dame’s offense, in whole and in part, was simply overrun by Arizona State’s blitz package. It…
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IBG: Operation Desert Storm Edition
The Irish Blogger Gathering is back this week with the Irish headed for a top 10- showdown later today in the desert. Before getting into everyone’s questions, here was mine…
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Notre Dame Heads to Desert for Season-Defining Matchup
College football is known for its unpredictability, a trait that has caused an explosion of popularity for the sport. But no one could have foreseen the strangeness of Notre Dame’s…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against Navy?
The Fighting Irish squeaked past Navy 49-39 in a weird affair that more closely resembled a Halloween House of Horrors than a first rate triumph by an outstanding team.
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IBG: Time to Sink Some Battleships Edition
The Irish Blogger Gathering returns after the bye week as we all try to turn our focus to Navy and Notre Dame’s chances of making the playoffs amid the myriad…
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Duranko’s Digest: Notre Dame Football Program-Semi-Annual Report
With seven games behind us it’s time for the Midyear Report. ASSETS/LIMITATIONS: THE UNITS We rank the units according to three categories: FINAL FOUR MAJOR BOWL BOWL This is primarily…
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Notre Dame’s CFB Playoff Hopes Alive
With five games left on the schedule, Notre Dame remains in the thick of the CFB Playoff race. In this week’s Notre Dame Football Report, we take a look at…
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Notre Dame Football is Back
After some internal debate, I have decided to take a different approach to Notre Dame’s recent contest against Florida State. Rather than covering the material as a detached observer I…
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