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The Indiana State Excise Police arrested 44 students on Saturday night after breaking up a party at almost 2:00 a.m., and the police report read like a who’s who of Notre Dame varsity athletes. Eight Notre Dame football players were among the group ticketed, including Nate Montana, Lo Wood, Chris Watt, Roby Toma, Nick Tausch,…
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Get caught up on the rankings and read the lists for 25-21, 20-16, and 15-11. As the list gets closer to the top, the usual suspects seem to pop up. I’ll leave the analysis for Monday when we unveil the top-five, but here are the rankings for 10-6 on the Irish roster. Gotta hand it…
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If you’re interested in getting caught up, here are the lists for 25-21 and 20-16. Day three of our countdown gets us into the top-flight of Irish players. While we’re only talking about Notre Dame, it’ll be interesting to see how the recruiting rankings of the best players on the Irish roster turn out as…
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We’ve known for over a month that Spencer Boyd was transferring out of Notre Dame before ever officially suiting up for the Irish, but for the first time, Boyd shed some light on the situation. Speaking to the Fort Myers News-Press, Boyd confirmed that he was leaving and that some family issues are the reason…
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Working off of yesterday’s kick-off to the Top 25 players on the Irish roster, we’re ready to roll out the next five members of the Irish Top-25. But first, a few observations: * 2/3s of us put Nick Tausch in the top-fifth of the roster, which makes sense when you consider that a football team…
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As I mentioned last week, ESPN’s top five Notre Dame players got me thinking of a fun summer project that could help us get to preseason training camp. So, without further ado, here’s the official kick-off of said summer project: The Top-25 players on the Irish roster. A little background: Lists like this are by…
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For the second time this summer, an early-enrollee won’t be suiting up for the Irish this fall. Both IrishSportsDaily.com and IrishIllustrated.com report that safety Chris Badger will embark on a two-year religious mission beginning in August, putting off both school and football for two years. Badger joins cornerback Spencer Boyd as freshman who left the…
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There’s been a lot of interest in yesterday’s topic of ranking Irish players, and I’m thinking about digging into that evaluation this weekend. While Mel Kiper and Todd McShay call talent evaluators and watch “game film,” I’ll rely on a couple cold ones, a scratch notebook, my DVR from last year’s games, and a lot…
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Brian Bennett of ESPN.com had a nice rundown of the Notre Dame’s top five players, in addition to the Blue Ribbon Preview of the Irish that’s running between pop-up advertisements for “The Decision,” starring LeBron James. Their analysis of the Irish for next season: Notre Dame’s golden dome has lost some of its shine over…
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With interviews shut down for the offseason, ESPN’s Bruce Feldman scored a great one with quarterback Dayne Crist a few weeks ago when he was on campus visiting the Irish. Feldman covered all sorts of ground with Crist, and while you might need a subscription to read everything, here’s a little taste of what Dayne…
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(Hope everybody had a nice holiday weekend. It’s depressing that summer is practically half-over, but the flip side of that is that football is coming. At least I remind myself every morning that football is coming…) Tom Dienhart of Rivals.com had his turn with Brian Kelly and the result was a pretty interesting Q&A session…
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The links are a little thin today, mostly because I’m on my way to northern Minnesota, where the air is fresh, the lakes are clean, and the internet is scarce. I’ll do my best to keep everybody posted, but there’s likely to be little Irish football news this weekend, so enjoy a few days with…
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There’s no bigger mouthpiece in the South for college football than Paul Finebaum, who has been a presence in Birmingham and across much of the Southeast for thirty years. Besides his platform as a columnist, he’s also a popular sports-talk personality, and yesterday he had Brian Kelly on his airwaves for an interview. Here are…
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Recruiting guru Tom Lemming hit the airwaves in South Bend with Eric Hansen and Bob Wieneke on WSBT 960 to talk Irish recruiting. If you don’t have 15 minutes to listen, I’ve got you covered. Here are some of the best nuggets: On Bubba Starling’s decision to pick Nebraska over Notre Dame: I was really…
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As high-profile recruits descend on South Bend for Notre Dame’s football camps, we’re starting to get a better idea of how recruiting will shake out for the 2011 signing class. After reading plenty of reports on targets, prospects, and scholarship limits, let’s take a look at what to expect from this recruiting class, and a…
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Notre Dame landed another defensive player that fits the mold, adding North Carolina linebacker Ben Councell to the 2011 recruiting class. Councell visited the Irish last week before committing to the Irish last night. “I made a visit to most of the schools I was thinking about, and after I visited Notre Dame I wanted…
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If there is one position group with a razor-thin margin for error, it’s the defensive lineman. The good news for Irish coach Mike Elston is that he’ll only need to find three guys that can play on the field at once as the Irish are shifting from four to three down linemen, and all three…
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Brian Kelly and the Fighting Irish have picked up their 11th recruiting commitment for the 2011 class, with Ohio safety Eilar Hardy committing to Notre Dame today, multiple websites reported. Hardy was the second commitment of the week for the Irish, joining Florida outside linebacker Clay Burton as a player coming to Notre Dame at…
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As the month of June cruises to an end and the 4th of July holiday weekend rapidly approaches, we are getting seriously closer to some actual football. One of the better quotes that I just remembered last night came to me from offensive coordinator Charley Molnar, when we shot the breeze after the Fantasy Camp…
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Over at The Sporting News, columnists Matt Hayes and Dave Curtis named their 10 biggest winners in the whole conference realignment shake-up. Nobody ranked higher on Hayes’ list than Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick: From Hayes: The Irish kept their independent status, the Big East stayed intact for ND’s non-football sports and the program…
