See Pics of Dayne Crist

One of the most sought-after quarterback prospects in the class of 2008, Dayne Crist, decided to go to Notre Dame over the school in his own backyard, USC. If you would like to take a look at this young QB in a workout, you can go to ESPN.com and see him in the Elite 11 Quarterback Camp in San Juan Capistrano, California. There are a bunch of great pictures, very high quality. Apparently Dayne did very well at the camp, surprising many of the scouts with his poise, arm strength and athleticism. There’s even a picture of him shaking hands with a former Notre Dame QB hero, Joe Montana.

Of course, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have no lack of quarterbacks. It is well known that Jimmy Clausen was once the Dayne Crist of prospects, very highly ranked, with a lot of coverage and a lot of hype. It seems to me that the QB situation in South Bend is one of the team’s only dilemmas, and it acts as a distraction. Next year, what will the situation be like? Only time will tell.

If you would like to see Dayne Crist play, you will probably have to wait until 2009, and then you can get Notre Dame Fighting Irish tickets to see him in action.

Permalink - Posted in General on July 31, 2007 - Post a comment

Weis is a “Good Guy”

Notre Dame Football coach Charlie Weis is one of the good guys, so writes Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN. With all of the stories about bad pro athletes and bad celebrities, from doping to dog fighting to driving drunk or fixing games, it is always necessary to remember that there are a lot of good people out there in the sports world doing really great things to improve the world. Charlie Weis has made his cause helping those people with mental and physical disorders. His daughter Hannah is diagnosed with what is called global developmental delays. He and his wife have started the foundation called Hannah and Friends, a non-profit program that is opening up a facility to help people with developmental disorders.

Here’s to you, Charlie Weis, and everybody else like you. The article goes on to name a few more people doing similar good things to help people and causes, but there are a lot of great pro athletes who are currently doing good things that we never hear about. A few bad apples seem to grab the headlines a lot, and that is unfortunate. There ought to be more articles like this one, but that kind of stuff just isn’t very juicy as far as sports or celebrity news. What a shame.

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Permalink - Posted in General on July 30, 2007 - Post a comment

Notre Dame: All-Around Great

Following the end of the academic year, the University of Notre Dame was named as the seventh best “All-Around” university in the nation when it comes to athletics programs. The list was compiled by Sports Illustrated, with UNC and Ohio State earning the number one and two rankings respectively. All NCAA sports were considered in the “All-Around” judgment, but football and basketball were given extra points in SI’s scoring process. Notre Dame scored a total of 165 points in the competition, largely because of the success of their tennis, basketball, hockey and football programs.

Though you might have though of this year as the year of the Gator, Florida was actually just one ahead of the Irish, finishing with 178 points and a ranking of sixth. The rankings are fine, but they do not take into consideration some very important things when it comes to a college’s athletics program, such as enrollment size, academic standards for athletes and athletic budget, all things that would skew the actual performance of the schools on the list.

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Permalink - Posted in General on July 27, 2007 - Post a comment

Watch Notre Dame on YouTube

Since the college football season doesn’t start for a while, you might be getting very depressed. However, you can still see a lot of great Notre Dame Football moments over and over again until the season starts just by visiting YouTube.com and typing in the moment you would like to see. You can possibly view some moments from the movie Rudy, or even get to see the actual Rudy in the actual game that he played in to end his career with the Irish.

I like the highlight clips, personally, and there are a few good ones available. Whatever it is that gives you goose bumps, you need to start viewing them about once a day to get yourself pumped. The other great thing about YouTube is that if you have your own clips of great Notre Dame moments, you can submit them for other Fighting Irish fans to look at, comment on and save. Of course, once the season gets underway, there will be updated highlights of the games every weekend, so remember to look back for some of those.

While you are waiting for the videos to download, you can always check out StubHub.com for Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football tickets.

Permalink - Posted in General on July 26, 2007 - Post a comment

All About Notre Dame’s Offensive Line

There are a lot of good offensive linemen coming out to play for the University of Notre Dame… they just don’t all know where they are going to end up playing next year. Dan Wenger (6-4, 282), John Sullivan (6-4, 290), Matt Carufel (6-5, 295), Mike Turkovich (6-6, 299), is Sam Young (6-8, 315), and Paul Duncan (6-7, 292) will be the basic squad out on the field. We can’t exactly say where these players will be playing, but here is there names for you.

Even though the offensive line of a football team is probably the most important part of the offense, there is still a bit of a reluctance to make offensive linemen the topic of conversation in sports. Can you name more than one All-Pro NFL lineman? How about a college offensive lineman? It’s pretty hard. A lot of the time the offensive line is talked about as a “unit,” and there’s a good reason for that sometimes. But now you can name the Irish line if you need to.

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Permalink - Posted in General on July 25, 2007 - Post a comment

ND’s Wide Receivers and Tight Ends

ESPN and Blue Ribbon College Football Yearbook have compiled a great summary of the situation for D-I college football programs, including your favorite team, the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish. If you take a look at the section about the current situation with the receivers and tight ends, you will probably end up being very optimistic about what this squad can do next season.

One of the most promising areas of the team is the tight end position, which looks to be filled by senior John Carlson. This guy is big and athletic, and will make an excellent target no matter who is the QB this year. Assuming that the QB will have a rough start, third option short passes to Carlson will be all the more prevalent. He was on course last season to set receiving and yardage records for Irish tight ends.

Junior David Grimes is probably going to be the number one receiver. He lacks size, but has proven that he can get decent yardage after the catch. The rest of the crew that will compete for time will be sophomore George West, sophomore D.J. Hord, sophomore Robby Parris and frosh Duval Kamara and Golden Tate. To see these guys in action, get Notre Dame Fighting Irish football tickets at StubHub.com.

Permalink - Posted in General on July 24, 2007 - Post a comment

Notre Dame a Top Recruiter

If you subscribe to the special feature on ESPN called “Insider” you will get to see the list of the top 150 high school football recruits for the class of 2008. This is an interesting list which grades and ranks incoming college freshman and high school seniors. You can see where some of the top athletes are going to attend college, if at all. Since this is a Notre Dame blog, I will have to inform you that the Irish are all over these top recruits, which should be very good news to you.

The top name that Notre Dame has on the list is that of Dayne Crist, the quarterback recruit from California, the third highest rated QB, as ranked by ESPN. Other names include the #36 overall, Omar Hunter, a DT form Georgia, #56 Jamoris Slaughter, a safety from Georgia, and #82 overall Matt Kalil, a tackle from California. There are a few others on the list, but to be fair, you should probably subscribe to the service to get all of the info.

Basically, things look good for Notre Dame from a recruiting standpoint. Clearly Coach Weis has been keeping competitive in the market for new talent. All of this bodes well for those of us who are going to go to StubHub.com to get Notre Dame Fighting Irish football tickets.

Permalink - Posted in General on July 23, 2007 - Post a comment

Weis Trial Reopens

The Charlie Weis malpractice lawsuit has restarted after the first one ended in a mistrial. As you might recall, Weis was suing two New England doctors for malpractice after what he called a botched gastric bypass surgery. After the surgery, Weis began to bleed internally and was bedridden, in and out of comma, and was told he was near-death. The surgeons then reopened Weis to repair tissue where internal bleeding had gotten worse than expected. Weis and the doctors had been near the end of the first trial when a juror collapsed during some testimony, the doctors rushed to the aid of the juror, the judge declared a mistrial, and the whole trial has begun again.

It is hard to say whether or not Weis will actually win this case, though history is not on his side, apparently. Traditionally it is had to convict on mistrials, even in a case where a patient dies. Weis not only got better, he also lost almost 100 pounds and- possibly as a result- got one of the best coaching jobs in the nation.

Thought the trial looks rough for Weis, the Notre Dame season will be different: highly visible, full of wins and with opposing football teams, not doctors, on the opposing team. To see those games, you can get Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football tickets at StubHub.com.

Permalink - Posted in General on July 20, 2007 - Post a comment

Two Notre Dame News Stories

Hey, hey, Notre Dame Football fans! I have two medium-sized tacos of news for you to consume. Alone, these two flatbread tacos would not be enough to constitute a meal, especially considering the large amount of filler lettuce that is stuffed into them. But together these will make for a fine regular-sized blog.

The first bit of news is that the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have announced that they will be playing their USC game next year in some sweet throwback uniforms. The uniforms will be like what the team wore in the mid and late 1970s, when players like Joe Montana and the Green Machine were dominating the college football world.

The other taco is this: Notre Dame has announced that it will play a game at the Orlando Citrus Bowl, a neutral stadium, in the years 2011 and 2014. This is part of the plan to make the Fighting Irish more of a national team, and expose them to the rest of the nation more thoroughly. The Irish will begin playing regular season games at neutral cites starting in 2009. This is significant, because South Bend fans will have to travel more often to see all of the games. Plus, the football team usually benefits from the great support they get at Notre Dame Stadium. At any rate, you won’t have to travel far in the world…. wide web to get tickets. They will still be at the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football tickets page at StubHub.com.

Permalink - Posted in General on July 19, 2007 - Post a comment

Notre Dame Running Back Preview

According to the ESPN.com-Blue Ribbon College Football Yearbook team preview, Notre Dame will have a good set of options as far as the running back position goes. Unlike the QB situation, there is a clear favorite for the starting job and a precedent to follow. Senior Travis Thomas will probably get the bulk of the carries this upcoming season, although this guy could probably get into a competition for a starting position anywhere on the field except quarterback. Last year he was a more than adequate linebacker (he could run down anybody) and he played special teams as well.

Said Coach Charlie Weis about Thomas, “He’ll be a leader no matter where he is. Travis Thomas is going to be on the field wherever we can get him on the field the most to help us win the most.”

The other options for the Irish are Darius Walker, Junior Jabbie, James Aldridge, Kevin Jones and Armando Allen. You might just end up seeing all of these guys playing tailback at one point or another during the season. In order to see all of them play, you will have to watch every Notre Dame away game on TV and see all of the home games live by getting some Notre Dame Fighting Irish football tickets at StubHub.com.

Permalink - Posted in General on July 18, 2007 - Post a comment


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