6 year OL Coach Harry Hiestand accepted the OL position from the Chicago Bears. Undoubtedly this will be his last stop in coaching. He had a great run at ND producing outstanding linemen who ended up highly drafted to Pro football. His 2017 OL won the Joe Moore Trophy as the best OL in college
Hoping for continuity on defense ND promoted LB’s Coach Lea to fill the role of departing DC Mike Elko. It is a certainty that Lea would have joined Elko at Texas A&M. Lea did an excellent job with the LB’s and impressed Brian Kelly with his energetic recruiting. Lea is also being touted for the
They all held to their commitments and we have a potential Ace in our 6’5″ QB commit. Here is the 2018 Signing Class: Here’s Kelly speaking about the class: Other news: WR Kevin Stepherson and RB CJ Holmes indefinitely suspended for shoplifting.
Well that’s that! We look like 2016 except that the Georgia Defense completely demolished the ND Offensive Line and made LT McGlinchey look like he never played in a football game and he’s been there 5 years. The rest of the OL were turnstiles also. ND ran the ball 37 times for 55 yards. Here
Georgia coach Kirby Smart was Nick Sabin’s DC for 4 NC games – so playing a night game at ND won’t faze him at all – certainly Brian Kelly won’t. Smart is concentrating on OC Chip Long’s up-tempo offense. What this game comes down to is the ND OL vs. Georgia’s front 7. We’ll find
Here is the latest Brian Kelly presser provided by WatchND:
We are getting very little out of the ND camp except a whole bunch of restrictions on reporters. Here is the latest Brian Kelly post practice press conference. The only useful info is that Tommy Kraemer has won the RT position: Here’s a clip of the 8/5 practice from which you can glean nothing: Contrast
Ara Parseghian compiled a 95-14-4 record in his 10 years at ND and tacked on 2 National Championships. His 1966 Team was one of college footballs all time greats – came from behind to tie Michigan State 10-10 then trounced USC. While most fans remember the great battles with USC, Ara played 2 great games
I was tempted to just show the first day in pads from 2 years ago. You learn absolutely nothing from watching this. All you see are a lot of guys running pass routes, QB’s throwing and some dreadful tackling. Outside of Nico Fertitta, everyone else just grabbed the runners heads, an excellent way to get
ND kicks off Spring Football today. Here is the video of the Brian Kelly press conference: The only thing you need to really know is that OC Chip Long will have total autonomy running the Offense while Kelly will spread his cheer onto all position groups. Kelly will also attend the early morning strength workouts.