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Notre Dame Football Recruiting: Recapping The Opening
The premier high school summer football camp wrapped up over the 4th of July weekend, and there were some fireworks (bada bing). About 160 of the best high school football…
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Notre Dame Football Recruiting: WR Kevin Austin Spotlight
The 2018 recruiting cycle roars on as the Notre Dame football team assembles on campus for summer workouts. Recently, the 2018 class lost four star receiver Braden Lenzy to Oregon,…
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Resetting Notre Dame Wide Receiver Recruiting After Lenzy Decommit
Notre Dame’s recruiting class of 2018 took its second major hit last week when Braden Lenzy abruptly decommitted and flipped to Oregon. The decommitment was not seen coming by many…
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Notre Dame Recruiting Continues to Roll Along Defensive Line
Don’t look now folks, but Notre Dame’s recruiting efforts along the defensive line continue to roll. On Tuesday, Notre Dame secured the commitment of Ja’Mion Franklin giving them three defensive…
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Notre Dame Football Key Recruiting: Blue Gold Game Weekend Preview
One of the biggest recruiting weekends of the offseason for any major football program is the playing of the spring game and Notre Dame is no different. There are, give…
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New Rules to Help Notre Dame Recruit Vs. Stanford?
The NCAA announced some widespread changes to recruiting rules last week and while I would love to dive into all of them right now and their impact on Notre Dame,…
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Backing Off Malik Vann Could Backfire on Notre Dame
The Notre Dame recruiting train has been barreling down the tracks the last few weeks with five new commitments – all of which have been from four star recruits –…
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Early Returns on Mike Elko’s Recruiting Are VERY Promising for Notre Dame
There were many on the field reasons that the dismissal of Brian Vangorder in September was long overdo, but his lack of effort on the recruiting trail was just as…
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Notre Dame Football Recruiting: Looking Back & Forward with ND Insider
Last week we had a great Q&A on Notre Dame recruiting and the state of the Irish program with Blue & Gold’s Bryan Dryskell. This week we had a chance…
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Notre Dame Football Recruiting 2018: Off To A Flying Start
Things are happening, folks. Things. Are. Happening. The plan for the UHND staff following the February 1st signing day for the 2017 class was to put recruiting on the back…
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Sleepers Into Stars: Brian Kelly’s Best Recruiting Hits For Notre Dame
Signing day 2017 finished with a flourish for Brian Kelly’s Fighting Irish, signing six players in the last two weeks after sending out a boat load of new offers while…
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Recapping A Wildly Successful Notre Dame Signing Day
Signing Day has been more of a time cringe than a time to celebrate for Notre Dame fans over the last few years. Last year the Irish missed on Ben…
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Avery Davis: Notre Dame’s Most Important Offensive Recruit in ’17
Notre Dame is in the process of signing some serious offensive talent in the class of 2017. All American Brock Wright is already on campus. Fellow All American tight end…
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Harry Hiestand Strikes Again: Notre Dame Lands Another Stellar OL Class
Harry Hiestand isn’t going to jump into any pools to win a recruit over. He isn’t going to have a sleepover at a recruits house. And he isn’t going to…
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5 Instant Impact Players in Notre Dame’s 2017 Recruiting Class
Our 2017 signing coverage continues with a look at five players I think could make, or are at least capable of making an instant impact on the Notre Dame football…
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Notre Dame Recruiting 2017 Signing Day: 5 Diamonds In The Rough
Our 2017 signing day coverage continues with one of my favorite columns of the year, my look at the signees who I think will far exceed their recruiting projections and…
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Notre Dame Recruiting: Brian Kelly Enters Critical Final Stretch
With one week until thousands of high school players put pen to paper and officially become committed to their schools of choice, Brian Kelly and his football staff are working…
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Notre Dame Recruiting: ’17 Big Board Remaining Wide Receivers
National Signing Day 2017 is just around the corner and the newly overhauled Notre Dame coaching staff has been hitting the road and turning over every leaf to fill out…
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Notre Dame’s Class of 2018 Off to Ridiculous Start
Signing Day 2017 is still seven months away, but given the torrid start to the class of 2018, it’s hard not to get excited about the direction Brian Kelly and…
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Is Notre Dame the Next ‘Offensive Line U’?
Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh was effusive with his praise of Ronnie Stanley, the Ravens’ first-round NFL Draft selection and No. 6 player taken overall. And Harbaugh was quick…
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Can Notre Dame Recruit an Elite Pass Rush?
It’s an accepted cliché within the football world that defense wins championships, but a more accurate statement might be that defenses, led by an effective and consistent pass rush, win…
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Notre Dame Should Benefit from New Recruiting Rule
The NCAA made some headlines last week by banning “satellite camps” like the ones Michigan held this past off-season. While that ruling has no real impact on Notre Dame since they…
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Creative Southern Recruiting is Key to Notre Dame’s Future
Notre Dame stepped into the modern era of recruiting when head coach Brian Kelly arrived in South Bend in 2010. It began with the “Pot of Gold” campaign, a bundle…
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No 5-Star Additions for Notre Dame Again on NSD
Notre Dame had high hopes coming into National Signing Day 2016 with a pair of 5-star linebackers – Caleb Kelly and Ben Davis – in their sights. Neither would end…
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Meet Notre Dame Football’s ’16 Defensive Recruits
Julian Okwara – WDE Summary: The younger brother of graduating defensive end Romeo Okwara, Julian Okwara comes to Notre Dame as a similar, but more developed prospect than his older brother.…
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