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Taylor Branch of The Atlantic has produced a brilliant indictment of the NCAA in his article The Shame of College Sports. It is long, but it's a must-read for any fan of college sports.

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NDatRivals via Twitter: Bodes well for us, since many of them will likely be needed this season.

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New article by NBC's Keith Arnold.

PootND over at the ND blog Her Loyal Sons just posted a comparison of ND's 2010 defensive statistics versus the averages for BCS programs over the last 5 years.

Since today is a particularly slow news day, I'm going to plug Football Outsiders. IMHO, it's the definitive source for reliable statistical information on college football. Advancing an argument about CFB is so much easier when you have objective figures to back you up; so use this site...

Irish Sports Daily just posted its 2011 Overview.

PootND over at Her Loyal Sons has a good article up comparing ND's 2010 offense to the average BCS-caliber offense. Most of us take it for granted, but ND will have to take a significant step forward on offense for a BCS run to be realistic.

Latest post by Keith Arnold on InsidetheIrish. Highlights some interesting points about our defense in 2006 and how opposing defenses adapted to Weis' scheme.

The article can be found here. Discusses Notre Dame briefly as well. Does anyone believe it's stopped? UNC is a great example of a less than successful program which has been cheating like there's no tomorrow. Since both Lonnie and his brother played at USC, I wonder where his relatives and...

ND v. Purdue Preview He gets a few minor details wrong, but otherwise it's a pretty good preview. Always nice to see fear/ respect from one's opponents. I normally wouldn't bring something like this to the board's attention, but it's a super slow news day. TIFWIW

Amusing article.

Offensive Guard Oxford, Alabama Oxford High School Ht: 6'4'' Wt: 303 40: NA Bench Max: 435 Squat Max: 585 GPA: 3.7 ESPN: :s::s::s::s:, 12th OG Rivals: NR 247: :s::s::s: Scout: :s::s::s:, 23rd OG Offers: Alabama Arkansas Clemson Florida Florida State Kentucky Louisville LSU Mississippi...

A recent tweet from Shaq Evans: I wonder why he's bashing ND. It certainly doesn't help to have former players tweeting stuff like that. Might just be sour grapes. He could be starting for a BCS contender in 2011 if he hadn't transferred.

SBNation's 2011 Season Preview for Notre Dame can be found here. It provides lots of statistics and Football Outsiders-type analysis, but you can skip the numbers and just read the article as well. I have finished it, and it's an excellent read. Looking forward to reading some reactions. Some...

First, a little background on how this post came about: Andy Staples of Sports Illustrated wrote this article ranking college football's 20 most desirable head coaching jobs. His ranking is pretty arbitrary, but there's nothing terribly objectionable about Notre Dame in there. Then JC...

This is a little off-topic, but I worry about Lynch getting utilized properly in our 3-4. He strikes me as one of those rare elite 4-3 pure pass rushing DEs. In a 4-3, he'd ideally be about 275 lbs and would be free to just rush the edge on every play. Right now, I'm assuming he'll see the...

There's a good article on ESPN right now about how the 2006, 2007, and 2008 drafts should have gone with the benefit of hindsight. The last paragraph made me smile: They've been beating us on #s drafted for quite a while, but the above provides some consolation (for those three years at least).