Football

No Means No

My mother is one of those social souls for whom exiting a party is three times the effort of entering. She’ll say she’s leaving, then run into someone on the way to the door. 10 minutes later, the process repeats. Eventually she finds her way out, but it usually involves half a tank of gas…

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Brian Kelly and the Secret Sauce

See also: Will Kelly’s Offense Work at ND See also: Kelly and Leadership Part I: Developing Players from the Inside Out (The Rock Report ) – “Every victory is won before the game is played.” ~ Lou Holtz I was out having some drinks and ran into a player on the 1988 team who recounted…

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Notre Dame Has Run Out Of Mulligans And Flyers

The last four coaching searches by Notre Dame have resulted in failure (one of them before the coach hired ever coached a game). That adds up to only one successful coach in the last 29 years – one successful hire out of the last 6 attempts going back to Gerry Faust. Notre Dame’s brand and…

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A Fitting End

The Charlie Weis era came to a close at Stanford on Saturday evening in a manner that highlighted his shortcomings as a head coach. The Notre Dame defense, which Weis could never elevate to a respectable level of performance in his five year tenure, was instructed to allow the Cardinal to score the winning touchdown…

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