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Red Zone No Longer a Dead Zone for Notre Dame
One of the most frustrating aspects of Notre Dame’s disappointing 9-4 campaign in 2013 was the Irish’s red zone futility. A year ago the Notre Dame offense scored points on…
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Grading Notre Dame at the Bye: Defense
Notre Dame lost six starters from last year’s defense and changed defensive schemes following the departure of Bob Diaco to be the head coach of UConn and subsequent hiring of…
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Grading Notre Dame at the Bye: Offense
As Notre Dame enters its first bye weekend of the season, we took a closer look at each position unit on the offensive side of the ball today. The Irish…
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Notre Dame Football 2014 Freshman 1st Quarter Report
As Notre Dame heads into the second quarter of the 2014 season, the Irish are 3-0 in part because of the play of its freshman class. Though not as heralded…
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Notre Dame Defense – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
As Notre Dame enters its first bye week of the season, we take a close look at the revitalized Notre Dame defense led by a ground of talented youngsters who…
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IBG: Evaluating Notre Dame at the Bye Edition
Notre Dame might be a on bye week this week, but the Irish Blogger Gathering isn’t. We’re hard at work again this week with our weekly roundtable discussion of the…
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10 Things For Notre Dame to Work on During the Bye
Notre Dame’s early season bye week really could not have come at a better time for the Fighting Irish. With some mounting injuries and plenty of areas to address despite…
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Duranko’s Digest: What Did We See Against Purdue?
Rallying from the season’s first deficit, the Irish tightened the screws defensively and scored the Shamrock Classic’s games last 20 points to beat Purdue 30-14, moving to 3-0 before the…
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5 Things I Didn’t Like from Notre Dame v. Purdue ’14
For the first time this season this column was unfortunately not hard to write. The last two weeks Notre Dame left very little for their not to like with a…
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Notre Dame v. Purdue ’14 – 5 Things I Liked
It took a little more effort than anyone thought it would last night but Notre Dame improved to 3-0 last night following a 30-14 win over Purdue in the Shamrock…
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IBG: Avoiding the Let Down and Dominating Edition
The Irish Blogger Gathering returns again this week as we all try to manufacture some excitement for Purdue following last week’s emotionally draining game against Michigan. Amazingly, all of the…
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Michigan Game Highlights Brian Kelly’s Stamp on Notre Dame
Brian Kelly had some signature moments as the head coach at Notre Dame in 2012. Road wins over Top 10 teams Oklahoma and Michigan State. The win over USC to…
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5 Things I Didn’t Like from Notre Dame v. Michigan ’14
For the second week in a row this column is extremely difficult to write because the Fighting Irish didn’t give us a whole lot not to like in their shutout…
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Duranko’s Digest – What Did We See Against Michigan?
31-0. You seek eloquence? This is eloquence: 31-0. Analysis? Analyze this: 31-0. You desire numbers? Try ZERO. Notre Dame ZEROED in on Michigan , won 31-ZERO, has ZERO losses, committed…
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Notre Dame v. Michigan ’14 – 5 Things I Liked
It’s been much too long since Notre Dame put on a performance like the one that we all witnessed on Saturday. With Michigan in town for the last time, Notre…
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IBG: Saying Goodbye to Michigan Edition
Notre Dame bids a fond farewell to Michigan this weekend … for now at least. With the Wolverines set to visit Notre Dame for the final time, the Irish Blogger…
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Michigan Game Offers Everett Golson Chance for Redemption
The 2014 season as a whole is a chance for redemption for Everett Golson’s off the field issues of a year ago, but if there is a single game on…
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5 Things I Didn’t Like from Notre Dame v. Rice
Sometimes this column is tough to write and the “5 Things I Liked” column is pretty easy. It happens when Notre Dame wins rather easily and looks pretty good in…
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5 Things I Liked from Notre Dame vs. Rice
Another long and tumultuous off-season came to an end on Saturday with a blowout victory for the Fighting Irish. With Everett Golson back under center the Irish offense flourished enroute…
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Duranko’s Diget: What did we see vs. Rice?
After a brief acclimatizing warmup with two 3-and-outs, the Irish offense exploded early and often, the refurbished Notre Dame defense held down the refurbished Rice offense, and the Irish nicely plucked,…
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5 Things I Want To See From Notre Dame in 2014
We’re two days from kick-off of the 2014 and after another off-season filled with enough drama to script a day-time soap opera, it’s glorious to be able to start watching…
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2014 Notre Dame Schedule Offers Opportunity for Revenge Tour
Notre Dame faces six opponents in 2014 who they lost to the last time they played them. Find out what do the Irish have to do in order to get…
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The Indispensables – 2014 Notre Dame Football Edition
The latest version of the Hollywood blockbuster series the Expendables opened at the box office a couple weeks ago. While the over the hill all-star cast may play the roles…
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Notre Dame Trick Shot Monday – Ice Bucket Challenge Edition
The first Trick Shot Monday of the 2014 season had a special twist – a very cold and icy twist to it. Notre Dame’s social media phenomenon, Trick Shot Monday,…
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Academic Investigation Could Lead to Major On-Field Impact for Notre Dame
The Notre Dame community was rocked on Friday with the bombshell of an internal investigation into academic misconduct involving four members of the football team. While not much is known…
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