Here's some early photos of the grounds crew at Fenway Park preparing to convert the baseball park into the home of the Shamrock Series game between Boston College and our Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Saturday, November 21st.
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Fenway Park Readies for Notre Dame Football
Here's some early photos of the grounds crew at Fenway Park preparing to convert the baseball park into the home of the Shamrock Series game between Boston College and our Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Saturday, November 21st.
Monday, November 2, 2015
Two Domers Secure "Shark Tank" Investment
Notre Dame alums Mike Doyle and Drew Mitchell -- co-founders of "Rent Like a Champion" were guests on ABC's hit show SHARK TANK this past Friday night and they secured a $200,000 investment for 10% of their company from Mark Cuban and "guest Shark" Mark Sacca.
Here's the Forbes story:
LINK: DOMERS GET SHARK MONEY!
If you want to watch the "negotiation" -- you'll have to click on the link below which will take you to the entire show:
LINK: SHARK TANK EPISODE 6
Notre Dame Now #2 in the FEI Ranking!
The creator of the Fremeau Efficiency Index is a colleague of mine here at the University of Notre Dame by the name of Brian Fremeau. Brian has been doing this statistical analysis work on football for a number of years --- really smart stuff.
And, his latest FEI rankings has the Fighting Irish ranked #2 in the country behind Clemson!
The Fremeau Efficiency Index (FEI) is a college football rating system based on opponent-adjusted drive efficiency. Approximately 20,000 possessions are contested annually in FBS vs. FBS games. First-half clock-kills and end-of-game garbage drives and scores are filtered out. Unadjusted game efficiency (GE) is a measure of net success on non-garbage possessions, and opponent adjustments are calculated with special emphasis placed on quality performances against good teams, win or lose. Other definitions:
- SOS: Strength of Schedule, measured as the likelihood of an elite team going undefeated against the given team's regular season schedule. Schedule strength data based on FEI ratings and calculated across other dimensions can be explored in this interactive visualization.
- FBS MW: Mean Wins, the average number of games a team with the given FEI rating would be expected to win against its regular season schedule of FBS opponents.
- FBS RMW: Remaining Mean Wins, the average number of games a team with the given FEI rating would be expected to win against the remainder of its regular season schedule of FBS opponents.
- OFEI: Opponent-adjusted Offensive Efficiency value generated per possession.
- DFEI: Opponent-adjusted Defensive Efficiency value generated per opponent possession.
- STE: Special Teams Efficiency value generated per game possession.
- FVE: Field Value Efficiency value generated per game possession.
LINK: FEI RANKING -- ALL 128 FBS TEAMS
Sunday, November 1, 2015
AP Poll: Notre Dame Jumps Stanford for #8
The latest Associated Press Poll has the Fighting Irish sitting at #8 -- between #7 Alabama and #9 Stanford...
LINK: AP POLL
Niklas & Floyd -- 3 TD Catches for Cardinals!
Former Notre Dame All-American Michael Floyd caught a 60 yard TD pass today and former ND student-athlete Troy Niklas caught his first and second TD passes of his career in the Arizona Cardinals game vs. Cleveland.
At the time of this post --- the game was still in the 3rd QTR with Arizona leading 24 - 20.
LINK: NIKLAS' FIRST CAREER TD!
LINK: MICHAEL FLOYD'S 60 YARD TD!
LINK: NIKLAS' SECOND CAREER TD!
ND's Turner: Home to Say Good-Bye to Mom
Notre Dame student-athlete John Turner wasn't in Philadelphia yesterday with his Fighting Irish teammates -- instead, he was at home with his family in Indianapolis.
He made the right decision.
John's Mom Stephanie is dying from Breast Cancer. You're going to want to read this story...
LINK: ONE LAST GAME
Note: Stephanie Turner left for Heaven today (November 2nd) -- John Turner posted this message on his Twitter account this morning:
OT: Miami's Controversial Win Over Duke
Some in the media this morning -- are calling for the ACC to reverse the final call by its officials. See the stories linked below -- along with Duke's head coach David Cutcliffe's post game press conference:
LINK: ESPN STORY
LINK: SB NATION
LINK: DUKE CHRONICLE
LINK: CBS SPORTS
LINK: AUSTIN STATESMAN
Best Notre Dame Costumes at Game Last Night
Here's a look at some of the top "Notre Dame themed" Halloween costumes at the game last night in Philadelphia...
- Old time ND football player
- "Touchdown" Jesus
- Mary statue on top of Golden Dome
- "First Down" Moses statue
- Leprechaun
These are awesome!
Courtesy of @fightingirish -- follow them on Twitter!
Media Reaction: Notre Dame 24 - Temple 20
Took a quick lap around the web to see what the media has to say about Notre Dame's 24 - 20 win over Temple...
LINK: ESPN
LINK: PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
LINK: CHICAGO SUN TIMES PHOTO GALLERY
LINK: SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE
LINK: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Notre Dame Fans Cheering the Fighting Irish!
Big cheers from the ND crowd here at @LFFStadium as the Irish leave the field with their seventh victory pic.twitter.com/9EHwEEuHA7
— Mary Green (@MaryEGreen15) November 1, 2015
Saturday, October 31, 2015
DeShone Kizer's 79 Yard Touchdown Run!
Sophomore, first-year starter DeShone Kizer led the Irish with 342 yards of total offense -- 299 yard passing / 143 yards rushing!
The 79 yard run is the 2nd longest run by a ND QB from scrimmage in history!
KeiVarae's Late Interception Seals Irish Victory!
Notre Dame beats Temple 24 - 20 in Philly tonight.
Reigning ACC Champs -- Back to Work Friday!
The three freshmen; Pflueger, Ryan and Burns -- all made their first college field goal attempts last night -- A THREE, A THREE and a TWO!
OT: New Zealand's "All Blacks" Haka Dance
I watched them do this on NBC before the start of the Rugby World Cup Final today against Australia -- WOW!
Let's Take a Look at Temple's Football Schedule
Since we have all day to worry about this game -- allow me to shed some light on the undefeated Owls and the "great" defense we will be playing this evening...
Here's a look at who Temple has played so far -- and the offensive rankings of each team. For a point of comparison -- here's how ND ranks (against all 128 teams in FBS):
- Rushing Rank: #15
- Passing Rank: #33
- Offensive Rank: #17
Penn State
- Temple 27 -- Penn State 10
- Penn State's record: 6 - 2
- Penn State Rushing Rank: #82
- Penn State Passing Rank: #92
- Penn State Offensive Rank: #111
Cincinnati
- Temple 34 -- Cincinnati 26
- Cincinnati's record: 4 - 3
- Cincinnati's Rushing Rank: #34
- Cincinnati's Passing Rank: #8
- Cincinnati's Offensive Rank: #7
UMASS
- Temple 25 -- UMASS 23
- UMASS's record: 1 - 6
- UMASS's Rushing Rank: #120
- UMASS's Passing Rank: #24
- UMASS's Offensive Rank: #50
Charlotte
- Temple 37 -- Charlotte 3
- Charlotte's record: 3 - 5
- Charlotte's Rushing Rank: #58
- Charlotte's Passing Rank: #112
- Charlotte's Offensive Rank: #104
Tulane
- Temple 49 -- Tulane 10
- Tulane's record: 3 - 4
- Tulane's Rushing Rank: #122
- Tulane's Passing Rank: #84
- Tulane's Offensive Rank: #122
UCF
- Temple 30 -- UCF 16
- UCF's record: 0 - 8
- UCF's Rushing Rank: #128
- UCF's Passing Rank: #90
- UCF's Offensive Rank: #128
East Carolina
- Temple 24 -- East Carolina 14
- East Carolina's record: 4 - 4
- East Carolina's Rushing Rank: #96
- East Carolina's Passing Rank: #29
- East Carolina's Offensive Rank: #55
NOTE: When you look at Penn State vs. Cincinnati -- this might be the best argument ever that Defense is more important than Offense -- or, you need to play a BIG TEN schedule...
Brian Kelly on ESPN GameDay This Morning
This was obviously filmed last night when the Fighting Irish did their "shake-out."
Friday, October 30, 2015
Photos of ND's Locker Room @ The "Linc"
Here's Notre Dame's locker room set up for tomorrow night's PRIME TIME game with Temple at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field.
Courtesy of @NDFBEquipment -- follow Ryan Grooms on Twitter!
Notre Dame Football's Arrival to Philadelphia
The Irish have landed in the city of Brotherly Love.
#HereComeTheIrish #NDvsTEM pic.twitter.com/0aeKAW1Y1r
— Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) October 30, 2015
ESPN Story: Philly Native Will Fuller
Thought you'd like to read this story written by ESPN's Notre Dame beat writer Matt Fortuna...
LINK: WILL FULLER
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Halloween: Brady Quinn's Niece and Nephew
Got to love this! Former Notre Dame All-American Brady Quinn's niece and nephew dressed as Hillary and "The Donald" for a Halloween party...
FYI: Brady's sister Laura is married to A.J. Hawk, linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals. That's "Mom & Dad" in the photo below.
OT: Our Kids Kara & Conor's Dog and Pumpkin!
Our daughter Kara and son-in-law Conor adopted Bailey as a puppy a little more than a year ago. She is the most pampered pup in America...
This photo was a team effort -- Kara "styled" Bailey and Conor carved her face on the pumpkin.
Happy Halloween!
ACC Media Day -- Zach Auguste Presser
Here is Notre Dame student-athlete Zach Auguste in front of the media assembled in Greensboro, NC yesterday at the ACC Media Day...
LINK: ZACH AUGUSTE
ACC Media Day: Demetrius Jackson Presser
Here is Notre Dame student-athlete Demetrius Jackson in front of the media yesterday at the ACC Media Day...
LINK: DEMETRIUS JACKSON
ACC Media Day: Mike Brey's Media Session
The reigning ACC Coach of the Year Mike Brey -- stood in front of the media yesterday to talk about this year's Fighting Irish...
LINK: MIKE BREY
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