Notre Dame Football
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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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Notre Dame Football ’16 Top 10 Key Players
Here are my top ten key players for Notre Dame heading in to the 2016 season. By no means are these the only players who will have a big…
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Torii Hunter Jr. Becoming Weapon for Notre Dame
Wide receivers coach Mike Denbrock has a tough task in front of him this spring. Replacing three starters is never ideal, but how do you replace three wide receivers that…
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Youth and Potential Early Themes for Notre Dame
Only a month and handful of practices into the 2016 spring version of Notre Dame football, fans and writers are officially on “over-reaction watch”. Spring stars don’t always turn into…
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Top 5 Notre Dame Spring Practice Storylines: Defense
Part one of this series broke down the top five offensive storylines heading into the 2016 version of spring football, today the focus is on the defense. While the Notre…
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Notre Dame Spring Preview: Restocking the Secondary
The past several weeks UHND has examined some of the pressing issues facing head coach Brian Kelly’s squad heading into the spring practice session, including looking into Notre Dame’s pass…
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Top 5 Notre Dame Spring Practice Storylines: Offense
The days are getting longer and the flowers are starting to bloom, which of course signals the start of spring football for the 2016 Notre Dame football team. If you…
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Notre Dame Spring Preview: The New Faces at Wide Receiver
As winter continues to make way for spring – Daylight Savings is a few short days away for those living in sun-deprived areas like me – Notre Dame’s spring practice…
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Does Notre Dame Have the Talent to Win a National Title?
After the Irish lost the national championship on January 7th, 2013 to the Alabama Crimson Tide by a score of 42-14, it seemed as though the Irish were lightyears away…
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Everett Golson’s Strange Journey Brings Him Back to Notre Dame
Everett Golson is returning to Notre Dame. Again. Two years after Golson returned to Notre Dame following his academic exile for the 2013 season, Golson will again be returning to…
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Did Jaylon Smith’s Injury Lead to Early NFL Departures for Notre Dame?
Star Notre Dame linebacker Jaylon Smith’s career had been going exactly according to plan. The one-time five-star prospect arrived in South Bend as the highest rated linebacker recruit Notre Dame…
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Notre Dame Spring Preview: Where’s the Pass Rush?
February is the hardest month of the football calendar. College football fans suffering the effects of withdrawal after the end of bowl season are given a brief reprieve until early…
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Sophomores Set to Impact ’16 Notre Dame Defense
In part one we zeroed in on the offensive recruits of 2015 and how they looked to impact the team in 2016, now in part two we focus on the…
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How Notre Dame Will Replace Steve Elmer
Notre Dame already had to replace two stalwarts on the offensive line heading into the 2016 season. The decision by Steve Elmer to end his career early and pursue his political…
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Notre Dame Offensive Sophomores Vital in 2016
With the 2016 Notre Dame recruiting class all inked up and ready to make their names known to Irish fans in the fall, let’s take a look back at the 2015…
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Why 2016 is the Most Important Season of the Brian Kelly Era
Last week’s National Signing Day closely mirrored the 2015 football season for Notre Dame. Head coach Brian Kelly fell just short of securing the signatures of two impact 5-star linebackers,…
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Notre Dame Great Justin Tuck Retires
Notre Dame’s all-time sack leader (and UHND’s official favorite follower on Twitter) is officially hanging up his cleats after a brilliant 11 year NFL career that saw the Irish great…
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