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Tommy Boy

(The Rock Report) – When Dayne Crist went down in the 2010 game against Tulsa, Tommy Rees, a true freshmen (ranked 31st by Rivals and 64th by Scout), was thrust into the game.  Still sporting adolescent acne, Rees responded by throwing for four touchdowns and 334 yards.  Most fans remember the interception throw that ended…

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IBG: Off-Season With a Vengeance

It’s never truly the off-season in the Irish electronic ether, and the off-season edition of the Irish Blogger Gathering is upon us. This time around, I got to ask the five … er, three questions to the grand poobah himself, Josh over at Subway Domer, whose answers appear below. My queries came courtesy of Bayou…

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Hardnose

(The Rock Report) – Sports Illustrated described Parseghian thusly, “Ara is an impatient, determined man, convinced he can return Notre Dame to a position of dominance in college football, and this he undoubtably will do one day – but not in 1964.” Sports Illustrated was wrong.(see this Time Magazine article for a great story on…

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The Rock Report: What Would Rockne Do?

“My wife and I went to the Notre Dame vs. USC game in 2009. The thing that impressed me the most about the whole experience was the fact that there was NO Gig’tron type artificial hype in the entire stadium. Notre dame’s football stadium is a shrine for the football purist” ~ Keith, Texas A&M…

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A Question of Priorities

Like most of you, the announcement yesterday of potential expansion / upgrade plans for Notre Dame Stadium caught me a bit by surprise. Given the efforts of our own NDRoman21 to do the same thing, it certainly wasn’t a foreign concept, but the desire to do something concrete certainly came out of the blue. There’s…

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