Author: Mike Coffey

Family First

I make no bones of the fact I’m not a recruitnik. In today’s atmosphere of being able to know who you didn’t get and (allegedly) why, I prefer to focus on the players Notre Dame does get and how they help the program progress towards a national title. So when players verbally commit or de-commit,…

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The Gist of our Goals

A couple weeks ago, I reviewed the 2014-16 football schedules ND released before the holidays, and said I would talk about the Scheduling Philosophy “tomorrow”. Obviously my concept of the word “tomorrow” is a little skewed, because here we are in January. But tomorrow has come, and as I’ve always said, some things you won…

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Three Moments to Remember

Mike Brey and his Fighting Irish kicked off ACC play in memorable fashion, taking down seventh-ranked Duke 79-77. These three moments were punctuation marks in the victory, only the fourth in ND’s series against the Blue Devils, and are brought to you by the ACC Network. Tom Knight finishes an in-bounds play with a dunk…

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The Tracks of our Tiers

I remember the day I set foot on campus in August of 1987 to begin my freshman year, I received a refrigerator magnet that had the football schedules on it through 1993. Life in the days when ND wasn’t almost the only independent in Division 1 and crazy television contracts didn’t rule the day certainly…

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Brian and Seth, Part II: Te’o, Tragedy and Toughness

Campus Insiders’ Seth Davis recently sat down with Notre Dame head football coach Brian Kelly to discuss a wide range of topics from recruiting, his keys to winning, what makes ND unique and more. In the second half of the interview, Kelly shares his thoughts on Manti Te’o and his initial reactions to the situation…

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