Notre Dame Grabs 23rd Spot in ESPN’s ‘Way Too Early’ Rankings for 2012 Season

Matt Cashore, US Presswire

If ESPN has anything to do with it, Notre Dame will be in the Top 25 to start the 2012 season in September. On their web site, the network put the Irish as the 23rd best team in the country heading into next year in their annual ‘Way Too Early’ rankings on Tuesday. Here is [...]

Notre Dame Football: Brian Kelly Gets Two-Year Contract Extension

Douglas Jones, US Presswire

Coming off back-to-back 8-5 seasons, Brian Kelly received a two-year contract extension from Notre Dame on Tuesday afternoon in announcement made by the university. The decisions means that Kelly’s contract will run through the 2016 season. Here is the following statement that was released from athletic director Jack Swarbrick. “While Coach Kelly and I are [...]

Notre Dame’s Defense Improved, But Still Way Behind SEC’s Best

John David Mercer, US Presswire

When watching last night’s BCS National Championship Game, I came away amazed by how great and how well coached Alabama’s defense is. Their stats throughout the entire 2011 season can attest to that fact. Over the course of 13 games, Bama allowed only nine touchdowns. Yes, that it is not a typo. NINE TOUCHDOWNS. Didn’t [...]

Notre Dame Football: Long Time Recruit Ronald Darby Decommits from Irish

Kirby Lee, US Presswire

This past weekend was a terrific three days for Notre Dame’s sports programs. The football program got a commit from Elijah Shumate at the Army All-American Bowl and they also got a transfer Amir Carlisle from hated rival school USC. The mens and womens basketball teams knocked off ranked opponents in impressive fashion as well. [...]

USC Running Back Amir Carlisle to Transfer to Notre Dame

Ron Chenoy, US Presswire

Earlier in the day, the Irish got a commitment from safety prospect Elijah Shumate at the Army All-American Bowl. Saturday got even better for Brian Kelly and his coaching staff when the South Bend Tribune revealed that running back Amir Carlisle plans to transfer from USC to Notre Dame. Here are the details of the [...]

Notre Dame Football: Elijah Shumate Picks Irish at Army All-American Game

Danny Wild, US Presswire

Elijah Shumate, a safety prospect out of Don Bosco Prep School in Ramsey, New Jersey, announced his intentions to play football at Notre Dame just a short time ago in the Army All-American Game on NBC. The two other schools that were finalists for Shumate were Rutgers and South Carolina, but the soon to be [...]

Notre Dame Tight End Tyler Eifert to Return for Senior Season

Brian Spurlock, US Presswire

Notre Dame Nation can breathe a sigh of relief. Irish Illustrated broke the news on its Twitter account on Friday afternoon that Tyler Eifert will skip April’s NFL Draft and will return to South Bend in order to play his senior season. This couldn’t be better news for Irish fans. Early on in the process [...]

Notre Dame Football: Offensive Lineman Taylor Decker Remains Solid in Commitment

Douglas Jones, US Presswire

Ever since Urban Meyer took over the Ohio State job in November, he has been a nuisance to Notre Dame. Meyer picked off two coaches from the Irish staff earlier this week and he has been trying to poach a couple of commits in Notre Dame’s recruiting class. One of those has been Taylor Decker, [...]

Notre Dame Ranks 11th in Top Revenue Generating College Sports Programs

Matt Cashore, US Presswire

Notre Dame ranks 11th out of all the universities in the country for top revenue generating college programs, according to BusinessInsider.com. The article which can be found here combines the revenue of both the football and basketball programs of the top 20 universities. Notre Dame gets the majority of its revenue from its football program, [...]

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