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Comparing Coaches

(Notre Dame Football News | The Rock Report) – The 2010 regular season is in the books and, as is the norm for most first year coaches, it was a roller coaster ride.  If we’ve learned anything about first years, as Vannie pointed out in Patience and Measuring Success, they’re more about changing the team…

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DaVaris Daniels Commits

(Notre Dame Football Recruiting News) – The team may be struggling on the field, but Notre Dame recruiting just moved into the top 5 on both Rivals and Scout with the addition of  DaVaris Daniels, a big and dangerous wide receiver out of Illinois.  With Atkinson and Daniels, Kelly now has two big play-makers on…

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Here We Go Again? (aka Weis Redux)

(The Rock Report | Notre Dame Football News) – A 1-2 start, questionable on the field calls, a rapidly disappearing running game and defense that has given up over 200 yards rushing two weeks in a row is causing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder amongst the faithful early on in the Kelly regime.  I thought Lou Somogyi…

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Nordy and Knute (Rockne)

(Notre Dame Football News | by Scott Engler) – I recently ran into a Domer who told me the story of “Nordy”.  Far before Rudy, Frank Hoffman was part of Irish lore from the Rockne days.  A member of the Hall of Fame and All-American, Nordy had never played football… until one day, walking across campus,…

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Sights, Sounds and Thoughts From Day One

(Notre Dame Football News) – I don’t think anyone’s under the illusion that you can learn an awful lot from a snippet of the first fall practice, but with NDNation hungry for information and insight, I’ve gathered some sights and sounds from different media sources.  The main themes are “tempo” and “constant coaching.” Some players…

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