My dad was a Notre Dame graduate, and before he spent 12 straight years paying ND tuition for my brother, sister and me and got a little burned out on the practice, he went to plenty of ND football games. He’d head eastbound on Friday nights or Saturday mornings. Sometimes he’d return in the evenings,…
(The Rock Report) – It’s been 16 years since Our Lady has seen this much depth on a Notre Dame football team. Quality depth is an important and underrated factor on any team with championship aspirations. Weis singled out depth on the offensive line, but there’s quality depth all over the field. For example, when’s…
Two years ago Notre Dame signed the best recruiting class in the country, demonstrating very clearly that Notre Dame was able to not just compete, but beat out every school in the country on the recruiting trail. This year, Notre Dame was in line for the top class in the country again, but worries about…
COACH WEIS: Good afternoon. I’m glad to be back, see so many smiling faces. The reason why we had to kind of split up media day into the coaches today and players tomorrow is that actually today is final exams. They’re taking exams right till late afternoon. Then when they finish with exams, they actually…
(The Rock Report) – At least Charlie struck the right tone to start his most important season at Notre Dame. Irish fans, weary of empty promises, such as “we’re going to pound it” were instead treated to a short, mostly fact-based press conference to start 2009. In a theme Weis repeated again and again throughout…