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Andrew McGuinness | Friday, April 21, 2023
For the third straight year, the Notre Dame football team will likely enter the season with a quarterback who has never started a game for the program. And even if graduate student Sam Hartman surprisingly does not begin the year behind center, junior Tyler Buchner does not exactly bring a wealth of starting experience to
Tyler Reidy | Friday, January 20, 2023
The Fighting Irish linebacker core will bring back the same top six players that closed out last season. Two four-stars and a three-star from the 2023 recruiting class will join them. Here’s a full outlook on Al Golden’s group of linebackers heading into next season. 2022 summary Position leaders (by snap count): Marist Liufau (601),
Aidan Thomas | Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Notre Dame signed its recruiting class after an eventful early signing day. Most notably, the Irish entered the day with 26 commitments, but flips affected the class. Five-star safety Peyton Bowen flipped to Oregon and four-star running back Jayden Limar is projected to do the same. Here’s an instant analysis and grades given to each
Andrew McGuinness | Monday, November 21, 2022
As Marcus Freeman emerged from the winter wonderland that was Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday afternoon, his team was feeling something it had not been all season — relaxed. All of Notre Dame’s first 10 games either had some type of chaotic, disappointing or electrifying element to them. But the Irish did not feel any
Andrew McGuinness | Saturday, November 19, 2022
As Notre Dame struggled through its first month of the season, the biggest criticism of the team was the lack of an identity. First-year head coach Marcus Freeman has talked about this all season, and perhaps nothing stood out more today. A resurgent run game that emerged in October started to change things. But there’s
Observer Sports Staff | Friday, October 7, 2022
‘Creating chaos’: Kiser ready to lead Irish over BYU ‘I still love what I do’: Patterson provides leadership amidst adversity Notre Dame keys to victory against BYU Notre Dame-BYU predictions Shamrock Series prevents unique recruiting opportunity Thomas: Irish players who must step up after the bye week
Mannion McGinley | Friday, October 7, 2022
The linebacker room will be one man short for the first half of this week’s game as J.D. Bertrand got called for targeting again against the Tar Heels two weeks ago. The rest of the squad has practiced filling in for the senior captain, shifting over and running different packages but a lot of those
Nate Moller | Friday, April 22, 2022
After an impressive season last year, there are lofty expectations for the Irish defense this season under new defensive coordinator Al Golden. With plenty of talent returning on the defensive side of the ball, the Irish have worked hard to learn Golden’s system and develop further as a unit in preparation for the 2022 season.
Aidan Thomas | Monday, November 29, 2021
Stanford holds the dubious distinction this season as being one of two home teams to have their field stormed by opposing fans. That happened just last week against Cal, who decimated the Cardinal 41-11 in their major rivalry clash. Fans of the Golden Bears invaded Stanford Stadium and celebrated with their squad on the grass
Aidan Thomas | Sunday, November 21, 2021
Despite being 3-7, Georgia Tech had lost just one game by more than 11 points this season. Ahead of Saturday’s clash, head coach Geoff Collins noted that the Yellow Jackets had had chances to win in the final minutes of all but one game. Make that two. Notre Dame came out needing to dominate and