This opener started out just like past seasons with back to back 3 and outs. Then the Everett Golson show started, running, throwing and a lot more more. Golson accounted for 5 TD’s – 3 running and 2 passing. Long and short passing, some drops but 295 yards passing is a great day. Will Fuller
Rice was the Conference USA champ last year and ended the season 10-4 with a blow out Bowl loss to Mississippi State. By the way, that Rice team would have beaten Temple, Purdue and Rutgers. Located in Texas, they have a lot of that left over talent from that state to put out a competitive
Brian Kelly is ready to go and if demeanor means anything he looks and sounds quite confident about his 2014 squad. Subsequent to his presser he named the Captains for this season: Austin Collingsworth – Safety Sheldon Day – DL Cam McDaniel – RB Nick Martin – C Very good selections.
A look back to where it started, if remembered, Kelly’s first practices started with him proclaiming we were going to see a fast, up tempo offense similar to his Cinncy teams and the practices were full of his red faced screaming at everyone reserving his most blistering attacks on QB Dayne Crist. It didn’t seem
ND had Media Day and und.com provides clip. So the shakeout and probable starters are detailed below – I’ll skip the DB’s for now outside of Riggs, Redfield and Collingsworth penned to start. The OL: Stanley (78) Hegarty (77) Martin (72) Lombard (74) Elmer (79) The DL : Rochell (90) Jones (94) Day (91) Trumbetti
UND.com provides August 16th presser. You get about 1/2 hour of inane duplicate questions from the reporters present. The end result is that Kelly knows no more than some fan in London. ND did have a practice today and only 1 question was asked about that – and that was the last question. As to
Reports are coming in from all over that ND investigating 4 football players and other students for possible academic fraud and violation of the Honor System. So 2 weeks before the season’s opener, 3 starters and 1 backup reportedly have been dismissed from the football team. No official confirmation, but with this much reporting going
Practice was a little bit more aggressive in the morning workout. There is really not a lot to see and I guess it would help if I knew all players numbers. Again, not much to see and some of these guys are huge. Kelly meets the press and wishes the reporters had a better mike.
Watch ND provides a good clip of team in pads from the August 8th, 2014 practice. This Saturday the team is set for full contact—no injuries please. Here is the practice video clip: