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• Signees Give Kelly Hope, Optimism at ND
• By John Walters 2/05/2010 1:55 PM ET
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• Due to my overlapping bowling date Wednesday with Seantrel Henderson, whose hand overlapped mine when he shook it, I was unable to listen in on University of Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly's ... More »
• Notre Dame 2009 Review: Squandering a Golden Chance
• By John Walters 1/27/2010 12:00 PM ET
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• People of Earth, As NBC programming goes, how can anyone look back upon the 2009 Notre Dame football season and label it anything but an "astounding failure?" The Fighting Irish, despite receiving ... More »
• Winners, Losers on College Football's Coaching Carousel
• By John Walters 1/25/2010 3:27 PM ET
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• The college football coaching carousel has been more akin to the Mad Hatter's Tea Cup ride at Disneyland the past six weeks. Twenty-two FBS jobs have been vacated and filled and that does not even ... More »
• All-American Bowl: Blue Chips Ahoy
• By John Walters 1/09/2010 11:45 AM ET
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• The U.S. Army All-American Bowl. As if a non-U.S. army would sponsor an All-American Bowl. Funny thing about this game, now in its 10th year: none of the blue-chip high school players who participate ... More »
• Notre Dame Staff Comes Into Focus
• By John Walters 1/06/2010 2:08 PM ET
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• Notre Dame will not be joining the Big Ten conference anytime soon. Judging from the manner in which Brian Kelly is filling out his coaching staff, however, the Big Ten is joining ranks at Notre Dame. ... More »
• Te'o's Mission in 2010? To Save Notre Dame's Defense
• By John Walters 12/31/2009 8:00 AM ET
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• The only conversion Manti Te'o will help facilitate next autumn is from a 4-3 to a 3-4. Domers who prayed to Deo (Latin ablative form of deus, or "God" if our schoolboy Latin holds) that they'd not ...
• Kelly Reportedly Makes Grand Hire at Notre Dame
• By John Walters 12/29/2009 2:19 PM ET
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• Three days before his Grand Valley State team was to play in the Division II national championship game in Florence, Ala., earlier this month, head coach Chuck Martin spoke to FanHouse as he was ... More »
• Brian Kelly Feeling Irish
• By John Walters 12/12/2009 1:04 AM ET
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• SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- While watching Brian Kenny discuss Brian Kelly on ESPN ... What a strange, strange week. On Monday we sat inside the Gug as a silent Charlie Weis, flanked by juniors Jimmy Clausen ... More »
• Meet Your Team, Brian Kelly: Defense
• By John Walters 12/10/2009 9:18 PM ET
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• SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The staunchest argument against what otherwise seemed inevitable the past two weeks, that Brian Kelly would become the next coach at Notre Dame, were the results of Cincinnati's ... More »
• Meet Your Team, Brian Kelly: Offense
• By John Walters 12/10/2009 7:23 PM ET
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• SOUTH BEND, Ind -- Brian Kelly may be inheriting a 6-6 team that just lost the Biletnikoff Award winner as well as a first-round draft pick at quarterback, but the cupboard is not exactly bare in ... More »
• Kelly Joins List of Irish Coaches, Greatness to Be Determined
• By John Walters 12/10/2009 6:10 PM ET
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• SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Add Brian Kelly to the list of names that include Leahy and Brennan, past Irish coaches of the Fighting Irish. Only time will tell if that name belongs in the same company as those ...
• Daily Domer: Irish Want Next Coach To Be Stronger Than Strong
• By John Walters 12/10/2009 1:05 PM ET
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• SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Did you see the Charlie Strong interview on "College Football Live" on Wednesday? Earlier this week Strong, the defensive coordinator at Florida the past eight seasons, was hired ... More »
• Daily Domer: Pardon the Interregnum
• By John Walters 12/08/2009 10:30 PM ET
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• The line that most reminds me of what has transpired at Notre Dame the past fortnight comes from Peggy Noonan's 1990 political memoir, "What I Saw at the Revolution." Noonan describes a White House ... More »
• Once Spilled, Charlie Weis Can't Remove Carroll Stain
• By John Walters 12/06/2009 2:00 PM ET
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• SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- In coaching jargon, Charlie Weis used to define the term "explosives" as any pass play that went for 20 or more yards and any rushing play that went for 10 or more yards. The ... More »
• Daily Domer: MJ at ND
• By John Walters 12/06/2009 1:30 PM ET
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• Rumor-mongers who were hoping to sight a big-name persona (Bob Stoops? Brian Kelly?) on the campus of Notre Dame today got their wish ... sort of. One of the most famous athletes in the world stopped ...
• Feast and Famine in South Bend
• By John Walters 12/04/2009 7:10 PM ET
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• SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Here in the Midwest the first Friday of each month conjures two words: "Fish Fry!" At Notre Dame, though, it's a final Friday of sorts for the Charlie Weis era. Players, coaches, ... More »
• Source: Irish Likely Won't Play in Bowl
• By John Walters 12/03/2009 6:10 PM ET
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• A source close to the Notre Dame football program said that the Fighting Irish will almost certainly not play in a bowl this season. While it was expected that the players would meet on Friday and ...
• Coaching Wish List for Irish
• By John Walters 12/02/2009 10:31 PM ET
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• SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- For the record, I've checked with two of my closer peers on the beat and before today none of us had ever heard of Sean O'Shea or "Irish Central" (although we do know Ryan O'Leary ... More »
• Daily Domer: Meet Rob Ianello
• By John Walters 12/02/2009 7:52 PM ET
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• SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The national media learned the name of Rob Ianello on Monday evening, while those of us who have covered the Charlie Weis era were not the least bit surprised by his battlefield ... More »
• Irish Need to Emphasize Grit, Toughness
• By John Walters 12/01/2009 1:00 PM ET
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• STANFORD, Calif. -- High hopes. There is not currently, but there has been and there will once again be a certain "Whoops, there goes another rubber tree plant" sensibility to Notre Dame football. ... More »
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