Notre Dame Football
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2016 Notre Dame Schedule Preview: Texas Longhorns
Today we kick-off our breakdown of Notre Dame’s 2016 football schedule. Once again the Irish face a daunting slate of games that, will prove challenging to navigate unblemished. Will this…
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Corey Robinson The Player Too Often Overlooked
Last week, Corey Robinson announced his decision to retire from football due to an accumulation of concussions and will take up a student assistant role within the football program. Generally…
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Malik Zaire: Notre Dame Football Now or Never ’16
Notre Dame’s freshmen have reported to campus and moved into their dorms, and the 4th of July is within sight. For football fanatics, these developments can only mean one thing:…
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Notre Dame Equipped to Replace Corey Robinson
Despite a lack of experience throughout the WR depth chart, the Notre Dame offense is well equipped to replace Corey Robinson in the lineup.
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Corey Robinson Made Wise Decision to Retire
Corey Robinson’s brief but promising career on the football field came to a premature end on Wednesday when the senior to be hung up his cleats after battling through multiple…
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2016 Notre Dame Football Number Changes
Blue & Gold’s Lou Somogyi reported on some Notre Dame football jersey number changes for 2016 earlier on Tuesday with Notre Dame’s senior quarterback, Malik Zaire, highlighting the number changes. While…
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Five Reasons To Be Optimistic About The Notre Dame Defense
Following my latest installment, which ranked the top 11 players on the Notre Dame defense, the response was near unanimous: the defense is in big trouble. Writing it, I hadn’t…
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6 Notre Dame Redshirts to Watch in ’16
With freshmen reporting to campus and Notre Dame posting videos of its off-season training already, it’s easy to get excited about what instant impact freshmen might be roaming the Gug…
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2016 Notre Dame Football Position Preseason Grades
A lot of people including myself are underestimating how good Notre Dame could be this season. I think it’s because of the way the season ended with a heart-breaking last-second…
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Is Notre Dame moving to a 4-2-5 defense?
COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S BRUTAL ORIGINS When Rutgers “lit up” Princeton 6-4 in 1869 in the first football game ever played, the game’s early defensive DNA was established. It was brutality at…
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Notre Dame Football’s Best 11: Defense
First we looked at the offense, now a look at the best 11 players on the defensive side of the ball for the 2016 Fighting Irish. As with the offense,…
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Breaking Down Notre Dame’s 2016 Football Schedule
Duranko is back with a breakdown of Notre Dame's 2016 football schedule. Here is a full ranking, in reverse order of difficulty, of Notre Dame's 12 opponents standing between it…
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Mike Sanford Continues Meteoric Rise
Notre Dame’s recruiting received a significant boost recently when 2018 quarterback prospect Phil Jurkovec offered his commitment after an unofficial visit to campus. Although still early in the process for…
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How Notre Dame Fits into the Satellite Camp Debate
The offseason for college football is usually spent covering inconsequential items like what jersey numbers incoming freshmen will receive or, if it’s really a slow news day, what current NCAA…
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Notre Dame Football’s 11 Best: Offense
The idea of playing the best 11 guys you have on either side of the ball would seem to be conventional and a matter of common sense. Of course every…
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Looking Ahead to Notre Dame’s 2017 NFL Draft Prospects
When it comes to the NFL Draft, Notre Dame football has been on a hot streak. Two years ago head coach Brian Kelly had eight player players drafted, good enough…
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NFL Draft Proves Kelly, Hiestand Have Rebuilt the Irish Line
From 2004-2013, Notre Dame football produced just one offensive lineman drafted high than the 6th round in the NFL Draft. That’s 10 NFL Drafts and just one lineman selected higher than…
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Notre Dame’s Early Departures Decisions Validated in ’16 NFL Draft
After years of avoiding a max exodus and early departures, Notre Dame lost four players this off-season who had eligibility remaining – Will Fuller, Keivarae Russell, CJ Prosise, and Jaylon Smith.…
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Questions Linger for Notre Dame Following Spring Ball
Just as soon as it began, spring practice concluded last Saturday for the Notre Dame football team, with a somewhat uneventful game that ended up with a 17-7 Blue victory…
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Notre Dame Now Producing NFL Draft Picks with Star Power
When Brian Kelly took over as head coach of Notre Dame’s football program in December of 2009, he had his work cut out for him. In addition to inheriting a…
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No Shamrock Series Game for Notre Dame in 2017
When Notre Dame travels to San Antonio, Texas in November to take on Army, it will mark the eighth straight season in which the Irish have traveled to another city…
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Kevin Stepherson Lives Up to Hype in Blue Gold Game
One of the hottest names during Notre Dame’s 2016 Spring Football was early enrollee wide receiver Kevin Stepherson. From Brian Kelly raving about his hands to teammates offering up kudos…
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Emergence of Nyles Morgan a Must for Notre Dame
As a Southern California resident, there are not many people around here who obsess over Notre Dame football quite like myself. Sure, there are a lot of fans in this…
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What We Learned from Notre Dame’s Blue-Gold Game
Notre Dame concluded its spring with the annual Blue-Gold game after 14 practices. And while it’s important to not read too much into what transpires during the game – there…
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Justin Yoon No Longer Secret Weapon for Notre Dame
Kickers. Conventional wisdom has it as the easiest gig in football. The position has staying power, with many of the NFL’s greatest playing for upward of 20 NFL seasons, all…
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