Jeff Quinn, Offensive Analyst is now named the Notre Dame Offensive Line Coach. Quinn is 55 yrs old and has a longtime association with Brian Kelly – 20 years. He was the OC and OL coach when the University of Cincinnati won 12 games under Kelly, but lost to Florida in their Bowl Game. You’ll
First the good news – Tevon Coney and Jerry Tillery will return to ND for the 2018 season. 7 Freshman footballers were early enrollees. Brian Kelly dismissed 4 players from the team: WR Kevin Stepherson RB CJ Holmes RB Deon McIntosh NG Brian Tiassum Recruiting will continue to the last minute.
6 year OL Coach Harry Hiestand accepted the OL position from the Chicago Bears. Undoubtedly this will be his last stop in coaching. He had a great run at ND producing outstanding linemen who ended up highly drafted to Pro football. His 2017 OL won the Joe Moore Trophy as the best OL in college
Hoping for continuity on defense ND promoted LB’s Coach Lea to fill the role of departing DC Mike Elko. It is a certainty that Lea would have joined Elko at Texas A&M. Lea did an excellent job with the LB’s and impressed Brian Kelly with his energetic recruiting. Lea is also being touted for the
Why would anyone rather coach at Texas A&M than ND?—$$$$$$. And that’s what DC Mike Elko opted for. I know South Bend isn’t paradise but neither is College Station. So now Brian Kelly has to worry about Linebacker Coach Clark Lea who Elko brought with him from Wake Forest. The only thing that would keep
Happy New Year Miles Boykin, who became a legend with a one handed grab, eluded 2 defenders and scored the go ahead TD with about a minute left. In what started out as a dreadful game, the finale was just unbelievable. Sub QB Ian Book replaced Wimbush and went 14-19 2 TD’s 1 pick and
This is the moment of truth for the ND team and in particular QB Brandon Wimbush. If he’s off this could get real ugly. Let’s hope that someone has been working with backup Ian Book. I do not know where OC Chip Long’s offense went, but IF it’s his we’ve been watching and not the
It looks like Notre Dame will have no receivers except backups and EQ: WR Chase Claypool – out – surgery TE Brock Wright – out – surgery TE Alize Mack – suspended for Bowl Game WR Kevin Stepherson – indefinite suspension – shoplifted 2 sweat pants 3 LSU Starting LB’s will not play including their
They all held to their commitments and we have a potential Ace in our 6’5″ QB commit. Here is the 2018 Signing Class: Here’s Kelly speaking about the class: Other news: WR Kevin Stepherson and RB CJ Holmes indefinitely suspended for shoplifting.