Published on: 4th March, 2010
The Image of golden helmets sparkling under a blue September sky is always cause for excitement among the Notre Dame faithful. Following a tumultuous off season bringing change across the board, many will fear the worst. Some may have written the Irish off already. For those who's spine tingles at ...Published on: 4th January, 2010
The 2009 Notre Dame football season began with much excitement and lofty expectations. A perceived soft schedule and the best on-paper offense had most expecting a BCS run and 10 wins. What unraveled as the season progressed was maybe on of the more depressing and confusing years of pigskin ever ...Published on: 21st December, 2009
Irrelevance is a word that hovers around both the Big Ten and Notre Dame these days. Each is searching for a return to former glory. Each is fighting the belief that they represent a time gone by. Their mutual salvation may be each other. As soon as the Big Ten Conference announced ...Published on: 10th December, 2009
Brian Kelly will be named Head Football Coach at the University of Notre Dame as early as tomorrow, sources close to the program report. After less than a week of searching in earnest, the Irish have their man. The courtship was swift, as the word went from Kelly telling his players five ...Published on: 7th December, 2009
Exactly one week after the announcement of Charlie Weis' departure comes the second least surprising declaration of all time. At a 2 p.m. press conference, Notre Dame offensive standouts Jimmy Clausen and Golden Tate declared themselves eligible for the NFL Draft. The sight of perhaps the nation's most potent QB/WR tandem announcing ...Published on: 6th December, 2009
The football program at Notre Dame is in peril. A coaching search just begun following three straight non-winning seasons and the worst three year stretch in school history. All reports indicate that the talent to win is in South Bend. The schedule seemed ripe with opponents that should be beaten. There ...Published on: 25th November, 2009
For all those who say that there are no such thing as zombies, I submit Charlie Weis and the Notre Dame coaching staff. Even the embattled coach himself seems resigned to the fact that his dismissal is imminent, saying at his weekly postmortem address that he would agree with ...Published on: 9th November, 2009
The Notre Dame football program once again finds itself staring into the abyss following yet another late season loss to a team that they should have easily beaten. All preseason hype and hope is lost as the Irish continue to play to the level of their competition. Of all the sins ...Published on: 8th November, 2009
Charlie Weis has long held admiration and respect for the U.S. Naval Academy and its Midshepmen football team. Unfortunately, he forgot to pass that respect on to his team. At Notre Dame Stadium Saturday, Navy executed a perfect attack and Notre Dame repeatedly shot itself in the foot allowing the ...Published on: 2nd November, 2009
With their 40-14 win over Washington State Saturday, Notre Dame became bowl eligible in October for the first time since 2006. Unfortunately, the Irish's strength of schedule rankings and computer numbers took a hit by playing maybe the worst team in a BCS conference. They also had key opponents lose, potentially ...