Notre Dame Football: Brian Kelly, Irish Can Right the Ship with Win Over USC

Published on: 24th November, 2010

To say the 2010 season has been a challenging one for Notre Dame would be a gross understatement. This Saturday, Irish head coach Brian Kelly and his team have the chance to put much of that behind them in their annual showdown with arch-rival Southern Cal. The Trojans are the collective ...

Notre Dame Football: Is It Time To Push the Panic Button?

Published on: 8th November, 2010

After a tumultuous end to the 2009 Notre Dame football season that culminated in the dismissal of Charlie Weis as head coach, the Irish football program was desperate for some stability. Enter Brian Kelly, a young head coach with a consistent history of creating prosperous football teams from virtual nothingness. Expectations for ...

Notre Dame Football and Brian Kelly’s Yelling: Is It Too Much?

Published on: 4th October, 2010

Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly is upset. His understanding was that there is a difference between the etiquette used at dinner parties and the etiquette used on the gridiron. Apparently his players were not informed. Kelly took several moments during Saturday's 31-13 Irish victory over Boston College to remind some of ...

Notre Dame Football Must Rediscover Its Identity in 2010

Published on: 3rd September, 2010

In the movie Office Space, Milton Waddams looks like he has some deep Irish heritage. Reddish-brown hair, pale complexion and freckles, he has the look of a textbook ginger. In the last 16 years, the Notre Dame football team has personified Milton in the college football world—lowly, unassuming, not expected to ...

Orange Oven Mitts Threaten To Cool Notre Dame’s Offense

Published on: 25th August, 2010

He stands there, almost motionless on the home sideline of Notre Dame stadium. Calm, cool, serene, he patrols his realm with an authority hidden by his job title. Though he is often reviled, cursed and booed, he is unmoved, unshaken in his solemn duty granted by a higher power from (the ...

Brian Kelly’s Biggest Challenge at Notre Dame: Big Red Circles

Published on: 22nd August, 2010

Brian Kelly knows how to win.  He says this about himself, and based on his track record at Grand Valley State, Central Michigan, and Cincinnati, I’m not about to call him a liar. However, in his first press conference as Notre Dame’s new head coach, he also says about himself that ...

Notre Dame Football Brand Is Resilient, but Can It Last?

Published on: 18th August, 2010

In a little over two weeks, the Notre Dame football team will open another new chapter in its coaching history books when new head coach Brian Kelly leads the Irish out of the tunnel.  The stories of Kelly’s most recent predecessors have been short, tumultuous reads and none of them ...