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Notre Dame released the rosters for tomorrow’s Blue-Gold Game, with both squads featuring a number of starters. The Blue team features Michael Floyd, Armando Allen, Kyle Rudolph, Dayne Crist on offense and Gary Gray, Jamoris Slaughter, Anthony McDonald, Brian Smith, and Ethan Johnson on defense. The Gold team will feature Nate Montana, Shaq Evans, Duval…
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While we’ll get to the rest of Friday’s headlines and a little bit more NFL Draft talk, I wanted to let everybody know that it’s been far too long since we live-blogged a Notre Dame football game. Tomorrow, we’ll be following every play of the Blue-Gold game, bringing you as much information and insight possible…
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And so fall the Irish… After months of speculation and endless debate between Mel Kiper and Todd McShay, Jimmy Clausen plummeted out of the first round of the NFL Draft. So too did his Biletnikoff Award-winning teammate Golden Tate, making two of the most prolific offensive players in college football, and two of Notre Dame’s…
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After years where advanced mathematics were needed to decide who won the Blue-Gold game, Brian Kelly and his staff have taken a decidedly more conventional plan for the annual spring game. Kelly spoke to the media yesterday after practice, giving us the details of Saturday’s game, along with a few more updates on the playing…
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(Forgive me for the mediocre headline, but I caught Date Night last weekend with Steve Carrell and Tina Fey and found myself laughing far more than I expected. Solid flick that’ll entertain just about everyone, unless you’ve got a problem with a shirtless Mark Wahlberg.) Notre Dame and Michigan State will be playing under the…
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WNDU’s Jeff Jeffers is reporting that Dayne Crist will play in Saturday’s Blue-Gold Game. From WNDU: Irish quarterback Dayne Crist will play in Saturday’s Blue-Gold Game, Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly told NewsCenter 16 Sports Director Jeff Jeffers in a 1-on-1 interview Tuesday afternoon. Crist will continue to be ‘protected’ during the game—as he has…
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Matthias Farley is the fourth to join the 2011 recruiting class
Apr 21, 2010, 12:40 PM EDT
North Carolina safety Matthias Farley is the fourth player to verbally commit to Brian Kelly and the Fighting Irish. He did so just 24 hours after visiting campus, adding a much needed defensive back to the recruiting mix. Recruiting guru Tom Lemming ranks Farley as the best safety in North Carolina, and Farley had offers…
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With Saturday’s Blue-Gold game fast approaching, look for something official out of Brian Kelly on the role of quarterback Dayne Crist and tight end Kyle Rudolph during the scrimmage. The two focal points for the Irish offense are both on their way back from surgeries, and their availability in the annual spring game is still…
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The Florida Gators locked in one of the elite quarterbacks of the 2011 class this week when Florida prep star Jeff Driskel committed to Floria over a pack of top SEC programs. While that recruitment seemingly has nothing to do with notre Dame, Driskel’s decision could’ve set forth the recruiting carousel that’ll likely result in…
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Saw a snippet this weekend that I thought was a great encapsulation of the wholesale changes that Brian Kelly is making to this football program. While many have spoken about the new philosophies and systems that Kelly is incorporating, one of the largest changes is quite literal: The Irish will be playing a different brand…
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Notre Dame received a verbal commitment from kicker Kyle Brindza of Canton, Michigan earlier this weekend. Recruited by defensive backs coach Chuck Martin, Brindza is a unique recruit because he’s not sure if he’ll enroll at Notre Dame next fall or in 2011. Bridnza is set to graduate after his junior year at Plymouth High…
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Exactly one week before the Blue-Gold game, Brian Kelly gave the members of the media and the nearly 800 coaches that attended the annual coaching clinic an advanced look, offering a completely open two-hour window for viewing. A few notes after reading various reports: * Looking for an early enrollee that’ll see the field first?…
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We’re entering the home stretch of spring drills, and as we get there, things along the offensive and defensive fronts are starting to take shape. * On the defensive line, coach Mike Elston seems to like what he’s been seeing. “When Coach Kelly asked me to coach the defensive line, I was asked the question,…
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The ascension of Dayne Crist to the role of starting quarterback didn’t happen as many suspected. As Charlie Weis’ second five-star quarterback plucked out of Southern California, many thought a golden age of blue-chip signal-callers running Weis’ NFL offense would usher in an unprecedented revival. The Weis era put up historical offensive numbers, but the…
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With new media guidelines limiting what people can actually write about, I thought I’d do you one better. Here’s VIDEO from today’s workout, where the Irish went through full-speed, full contact, ones-versus-ones and twos-versus-twos in the red zone. While it isn’t exactly a great view, there’s little not to like about seeing Manti Te’o fly…
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We hear too many examples of college athletes falling by the wayside because they didn’t put in the time in the classroom. We might as well take a few seconds to point out a great student-athlete as well. The South Bend Tribune‘s Al Lesar has a great article about senior guard Chris Stewart and his…
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It isn’t hard to remember why Mike Anello was a fan favorite. Standing a shade under 5-foot-9, and weighing 175-pounds soaking wet, you’d probably struggle to pick him out of a lineup of his fellow dorm mates. Yet to classify Anello as just another Notre Dame student, or to even make the dreaded Rudy comparison…
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While Saturday saw Phil Mickelson make a heroic jump on “Moving Day,” the Irish had a big moving day of their own this Saturday, with head coach Brian Kelly putting the Irish through an extended 50-60 play scrimmage. “That’s a long scrimmage, but we needed to evaluate a lot of players,” Kelly said afterward. “Today…
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As spring practice continues, the national media takes its swing through South Bend for an update on the state of the Irish football program. With Brian Kelly now at the helm, its only natural that people compare his way of doing things to that of his predecessor, Charlie Weis. Two of the most prominent, ESPN’s…
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Who would’ve thought it: A quarterback that completed 70 percent of his passes and threw 33 touchdowns against four interceptions — two of them not his fault — would be deadly accurate passing against air. In his audition in front of 16 NFL teams, Clausen dazzled when throwing to a collection of former teammates, making…
