Author: Mike Coffey

Whither Dignity?

It’s been almost 24 hours since Notre Dame unveiled the uniforms the football team will wear for the 2018 Shamrock Series game in Yankee Stadium against Syracuse. I still consider myself too young to be a get-off-my-lawn type, but I certainly will cop to being generally conservative when it comes to Notre Dame, particularly its…

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Roadmap for 2018

Brian Kelly’s eighth season certainly held the interest of fans.  From the highs of the season-opening win streak to the low of Miami and back up after Miles’ Boykin’s amazing catch, there was more than enough for the Fighting Irish faithful to digest.  And with the moves of the offseason, we’re left wondering what to…

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Notes from the Geetar: Hath Spring Sprung?

It’s been a while since I pulled out the pick and strummed, so I figured I’d give Mike Royko a break for a bit and bring back a little old-school NDN. If it’s April and it’s Notre Dame, the Blue-Gold game is right around the corner.  Well, the event with that name is, anyway, because…

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This. This thing. Right here

The 85-scholarship limit the NCAA imposes sometimes leads to more than its fair share of brinksmanship.  Players chose to leave for whatever reason, recruits do or don’t make their grades, spring football results in injuries, etc. etc.  No matter what happens, when the whistle blows this fall, you only can have 85 football players signed…

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Don’t Shoot the Messengers

Yes yes, we’re the meanies again.  Same as it ever was. Folks are now getting upset because people on our restricted football board, Rock’s House, are discussing the possible connections between Notre Dame Director of Athletics Jack Swarbrick and the scandal currently overwhelming the United States Gymnastics program and its tolerance of a serial sexual…

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