A brilliant defensive scheme can help stop even the most dynamic of offensives, but sometimes, less is more, and a coordinator needs to know when that is the case. For Brian VanGorder, the defensive coordinator for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish who is known for his complex blitzing schemes, identified this week as an opportunity […] READ MORE
Author: Anthony Murphy
A_Murphy88DeShone Kizer Ready To Be The Guy For Notre Dame
As it is every season, expectations were high in South Bend, as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish were thought by some to be legitimate contenders to make a push to the College Football Playoff. A lot of that hype was bought in due to a very deep defensive group and the pending emergence of Malik […] READ MORE
Matt Johns and Virginia Nearly Upset Notre Dame
Notre Dame did everything they could to stop junior Matt Johns. They blitzed from every possible angle, and hid where it was coming from. It didn’t matter. The junior showed the kind of poise under fire that is needed in order to orchestrate a shocker of the magnitude that was almost witnessed on Saturday as Virginia […] READ MORE
Fighting Irish Survive Scare In Charlottesville
Notre Dame needed a last second touchdown pass by their backup quarterback to survive the first ever trip for the Fighting Irish to Charlottesville, VA. READ MORE
Running Game Leads Miami Hurricanes To Win Over FAU
It wasn’t the prettiest of starts. One that included a weather delay that lasted over an hour; but the Miami Hurricanes finally pulled away from a Florida Atlantic team that kept the game close all the way into the third quarter. Costly turnovers finally did in the Owls who now drop to 0-2 on the […] READ MORE
Pitt Must Prepare For Akron’s Two Quarterback System
At the NFL level, there is an old proverb that says that if you have two quarterbacks, you really have none. While that may be the case at the professional level, deploying two signal callers with different skill sets at the college level has worked in the right situation. The Florida Gators used their quarterback […] READ MORE
Pitt Panthers Find Success on Ground Without James Conner
Even without All-American running back James Conner for the better part of three quarters, the Pitt Panthers were able to find success on the ground. READ MORE
Without Protection, Christian Hackenberg’s Struggles Continue
After being sacked 44 times as a sophomore, Christian Hackenberg is almost a quarter of the way to matching that total after one game. READ MORE
C.J. Prosise Answers Bell After Folston Injury
After starting running back Tarean Folston went down with an injury, C.J. Prosise answered the bell and ran strong in Notre Dame's season opening win. READ MORE
Notre Dame Freshman Set To Make Impact Against Texas
Many have called this year’s Notre Dame Fighting Irish team the deepest as a whole in the entire Brian Kelly tenure, maybe even going further back than that. One main contributing part to this is the potential impact the incoming freshman class may have this year. When Kelly released the team’s depth chart for their […] READ MORE
