(The Rock Report) – For the last two years Notre Dame has fielded some of the youngest teams in college football. In 2009-2010, Notre Dame will put one of the most experienced teams on the field in the college football… on the offensive line (where Notre Dame returns the 9th most starts in the country.)…
Notre Dame picked up its first commitment for the hoops class of 2010 in the person of 6’1″ point guard Eric Atkins. This fulfills a critical need in the upcoming class — someone to take the reins from Ben Hansbrough when the junior-to-be graduates in 2011. The Columbia, MD, product chose the Irish after two…
Rock’s House Discussion on the Training Table (The Rock Report) – Would you put regular gas into a Formula One car and expect it to compete for a championship? The answer is… of course not. When Ruben Mendoza recently lobbied for a training table for Notre Dame athletes, he wasn’t just making excuses. In the…
Depth Chart – OffenseDepth Chart – DefenseDepth Chart – Spec. TeamsRoster – AlphabeticalRoster – NumericalRoster – Coaches (The Rock Report) – As I’ve detailed in this column in past years, you don’t learn very much in the Spring. The list of past MVPs and players who looked like they were going to have breakout years,…
(The Rock Report) – There has been an ideological debate on NDNation over whether coaching or talent was responsible for Notre Dame’s two year plunge. The answer is both and when you have two factors with that much impact, it’s hard, if not impossible, to determine ultimate causation. As we’ve covered before (ad nauseam) Weis…