Author: Mike Coffey

Remembering My Notre Dame Friend

The first time I ever saw Lou Somogyi’s name, I was in high school. My dad had received a Blue & Gold subscription for Christmas, and given my nascent interest in attending Notre Dame, I started paging through them as well (when Dad was done, naturally). Since his name seemed to be on a lot…

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Notes from the Geetar: A Notre Dame Christmas Story

  As the calendar inexorably barrels towards the birth of Christ, thoughts turn from the drudgery of the winter of our COVID-ey discontent to the impossible combination of serenity and insanity that is the end-of-year holiday season. Unable to keep my mind on work (or at least less able than I usually am), I chose…

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1,000 Words About Pitt

Relax, they won’t be my words. And they won’t even be words. Keeping in mind the old saying about pictures, we here at NDNation are working with a group called FanAlytix. They’ve come up with a neat new graphic called Game View 360 that will tell you everything you need to know about how a…

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Notes from the Geetar: Have Team, Will Travel

The B1G’s announcement of a conference-only 2020 is the first domino in what stands to be a true cascade. COVID-19 has everyone scrambling to still have a season while keeping everything as safe as possible, and Notre Dame is not an exception. So far, all we know is the game against Wisconsin at Lambeau Field…

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