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3 Keys to a Successful Season
As the Brian Kelly era begins in South Bend, a remodeled program will be looking to reclaim the top spot in college football. As new offensive and defensive systems are…
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Ranking Irish – The Top 5
The Notre Dame blogger player rankings for 25 conclude today with the top 5. Before we started, let’s get this out of the way. The previous sets of rankings can…
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Ranking the Irish – #10-6
Our road to Notre Dame’s top player for 2010 continues today continues with the players ranked 10-6. First off, check out everyone’s rankings over at Inside the Irish and just…
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Continuing the Countdown – Players #15-11
The countdown towards Notre Dame’s top player continues today with the latest set of Notre Dame blogger player rankings. As I’ve done the past couple days, I’ll post some comments…
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Ranking the Irish – #20-16
Last night I posted the first in a series of posts outlining the top 25 players on the Notre Dame roster for 2010. The series is being compiled by Inside…
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Ranking the Irish – Notre Dame’s Top 25 Players
When ESPN released it’s list of Top 5 Notre Dame players last week it got the Irish blogosphere talking. In response, NBC’s Keith Arnold enlisted the help of a few…
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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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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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Irish Need More Time at Wide Receiver
Heading into the spring everyone knew that there would be a lot of competition at wide receiver with the loss of Golden Tate to the NFL and the introduction of…
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Manti and Who In the Middle?
With Brian Smith moving back to outside linebacker and Manti Te’o taking over as one of the inside linebackers in Bob Diaco’s 3-4 defense, an opening exists at one of…
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Five Fighting For Two at OLB
As Notre Dame begins the first spring practice in the Brian Kelly Era, the one position where we might see the fiercest competition is at outside linebacker where five talented…
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Brian Smith Back Where He Started
Entering his final season at Notre Dame, senior Brian Smith will be changing positions for the third time. This time, however, Smith is moving back to the position that he…
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12 Players to Watch This Spring
Notre Dame kicks off the first spring practice under head coach Brian Kelly on Friday. While the excitement level isn’t quite where it was at after the last coaching change,…
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Repost – Irish Stewed: Fun with Numbers
The follow post was written in the middle of the season by UHND’s own McSweeney. Originally posted on November 13, the entry ended up be prophetic as Kelly was named…
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History Need Not Be A Burden
Special To UHND.com While doing research for the documentary, Echoes Awakened: The Year That Changed The Face of Notre Dame Football, I discovered that the subject of the documentary –…
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Initial Impression – Notre Dame at Stanford
It’s tough to really get into the X’s and O’s of Saturday’s season finale, but here are some thoughts about an actual football game instead of another post speculating about…
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Irish Stewed: Blood in the Water, Idiots at the Microphone
As the curtain was drawn on the ND-UConn game—on yet another late-game collapse by a Charlie Weis-coached team—the sports media talking heads prepared to feast on some pre-Thanksgiving Irish leftovers.…
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Initial Impressions – UConn at Notre Dame
Another tough loss for a Notre Dame team that had BCS aspirations just a few weeks ago. The loss drops the Irish to 6-5 and more than likely seals the…
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Weis Deserves Proper Send Off
Notre Dame, IN – Saturday’s game against Connecticut could very well be the last game coached in Notre Dame Stadium by current head coach Charlie Weis. Should that turn out…
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Initial Impressions – Navy at Notre Dame
Here are my initial impressions from the aftermath of yesterday’s loss to Navy. My apologies for posting these late, but I would have worn out the $#%?!@ keys last night…
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Irish Stewed: Anchors Aweigh! (But watch out for those knees.)
If you don’t know the story behind the Notre Dame-Naval Academy rivalry, I’ll give you the Cliffs Notes version. In the spring semester of 1943, Notre Dame’s total enrollment declined…
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Initial Impressions – Boston College at Notre Dame
Notre Dame improved to 5-2 on the season with another last minute minute this weekend topping Boston College 20-16. Brian Smith sealed the Irish victory with his first interception of…
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Irish Stewed: Sean Astin, David Gordon, and Jesuit Butt Kicking
Neither Jim nor I was what you’d call in great physical shape. We curled around the south side of the stadium and sprinted west across campus. I crossed myself as…
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Initial Impressions – USC at Notre Dame
Notre Dame took another game down to the wire on Saturday, but for the second time this season came out on the wrong end of a thrilling game. Here are…
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