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Head over to the podcast page and check out our interview with Rocket Ismail! Sorry for the lack of warning, but he was a very last minute guest on last night’s Podcast and gave us a great interview.
There’s been a couple really awesome moments since we started UHND back in 1997 and tonight was definitely [...]
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For the third year in a row I’ll be participating in the CollegeRivals.org weekly Fan Poll (will be updated tomorrow at 1PM CT). Every week I will publish my weekly ballot here on the blog. The first week is always tough to judge, but here’s my ballot for this week.
Weekly Top 25 Ballot - 9/2/08
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Southern [...]
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San Diego State’s defensive line was hit with the injury bug over the summer and their bad luck continued in their opening week loss to cal Poly.
The Aztecs, who concluded fall camp already thin across the defensive front, had no fewer than four more defensive linemen sustain at least some sort of injury in Saturday’s [...]
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Notre Dame commit EJ Banks started off his season on the right foot this weekend with and impressive showing - even if he only played the first half. Banks cramped up and missed most of the second half, but he did enough damage by halftime to put his team in position to win.
Montour earned a [...]
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Welcome to a new feature on the UHND.com Blog. Every week I will publish a poll of Notre Dame’s opponents with comments on how each team looked the week before. This week’s was a bit challenging because Notre Dame opponents looked really bad yesterday. The hardest spot to pick was #2 because after USC every [...]
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Kirk Herbstreit released his annual “Herbies” on ESPN.com today and a couple Notre Dame players/coaches were mentioned.
“Quarterbacks — What A Difference A Year Makes” - #3 Jimmy Clausen
“Top True Freshmen — From High School To The Big Time” - Michael Floyd
“Movin’ On Up” - #2 Notre Dame
“Coaches Who Will Exceed ...
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Former Notre Dame wide receiver Richard Jackson will be attending the University of Central Florida after deciding to transfer from Notre Dame earlier this month. Jackson missed all of last year with injuries and was very close to being burried on the depth chart with the influx of talent in the freshman class and decided [...]
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Notre Dame suffered it’s first major injury of the year this week when it was discovered that starting tight end Mike Ragone had a partial tear of his ACL. The sophomore tight end tried to play through the injury with the help of a practice, but decided to shut it down and get it fixed [...]
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Notre Dame suffered it’s first major injury of the year this week when it was discovered that starting tight end Mike Ragone had a partial tear of his ACL. The sophomore tight end tried to play through the injury with the help of a practice, but decided to shut it down and get it fixed [...]
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Here’s some video of Notre Dame’s newest young up and coming running back Jonas Gray.
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Here are some notes from Weis’s meeting with the media Thursday. It sounds like we will be seeing a lot of Michael Floyd this fall.
The team will have off from practice Saturday and won’t practice until Sunday night after Friday’s practice to give the players a full 48 hours to heel up some bumps and [...]
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Leadership committee for this year is Jimmy Clausen (QBs), Asaph Schwapp (RBs), Sam Young (OLs), Pat Kuntz (DLs), Terrail Lambert (DBs), and Scott Smith (Special Teams). Weis made mention that he was pleased the players selected Scott Smith even though he isn’t a starter because it shows that the team understands what leadership is.
Weis mentioned [...]
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Like Robert Blanton, Ethan Johnson is a fast rising freshman who is challenging for some serious playing time this year. Irish Illustrated posted some video of Johnson from today’s practice.
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Charlie Weis announced the 2008 leadership committee today when he addressed the media. Here are the six players on this years committee.
Quarterback - Jimmy Clausen
Fullback - Asaph Schwapp
Offensive Line - Sam Young
Defensive Line - Pat Kuntz
Cornerback - Terrail Lambert
Special Teams - Scott Smith
These players will join Tri-Captains David Grimes, Maurice Crum, and David Bruton as [...]
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Freshman corner Robert Blanton has been one of the most talked about first year players in Notre Dame’s training camp so far this year. Here’s some video Irish Illustrared posted of Blanton from today’s practice.
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ESPN’s Mark Schlaback predicted Notre Dame will win 7 games in 2008 and end the year in a bowl game in a recent column for the World Wide Leader.
The Fighting Irish were one of the youngest teams in college football last season, when they limped to a 3-9 record.
But with quarterback Jimmy Clausen, tailbacks Robert [...]
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Charlie Weis spoke with the media on Saturday. Here’s some notes from what Weis had to say.
Freshman quarterback Dayne Crist had some moments of “information overload” at the beginning of camp and was showing some signs of frustrations. Weis said he brought Crist into his offense and had a “hey, you’re a freshmen, relax” type [...]
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Last week rumors circulated on the net that Darrin Walls was at a Pitt practice and was strongly considering transferring. Well, as crazy as this may sound, those rumors are completely false according to Walls’s father, Darrin Sr.
Blue and Gold Illustrated had an exclusive interview with Walls Sr. yesterday and said that none of the [...]
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Like the post below, here is a round up of some videos posted of play interviews over the past few days starting with Charlie Weis speaking to the media yesterday.
Jimmy Clausen
Maurice Crum
Pat Kuntz
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Here’s a recap of some video posted over the last couple of days from fall camp.
Defensive Line Drills:
Jon Tenuta working with the Linebackers
Jimmy Clausen and the Wide Receivers
Offensive Line Drills
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