Time to move on to the 2024 Football, tomorrow they will be revealing the Shamrock Series uniform. Game will be with Army in Yankee Stadium November 23rd. Camp opens next week. A lot of eyes will be on Riley Leonard, the WR's and the rebuild of the OL. TE and RB are expected to be very good. Defense should be very good. But as always we and every other team need to get through the fall camp healthy.
Not sure I quite get this Shamrock Series video...He's done some really good ones introducing the special uniforms. Just not sure this is one of them, but since it's labeled a teaser, I guess we'll have another one that is a couple of minutes long that is a bit better.
So it turns out that the 40K watch toss is something you don't get unless you watched the Wolf of Wall Street. More of the same in the full video. Uni's are OK, unique, etc. Video reveal is to me at least underwhelming.
Fall camp opened today and I've read reports and can only conclude that we practiced and there was some good and some not good. Things will evolve over then next 4 weeks leading up to the A&M game, hopefully no new injuries will happen this fall camp.
Injuries are part of the game, but can really throw a monkey wrench into any program before the season gets started!
Anxiety over Deuce Knight flipping to Auburn continues. He's been to ND more than any other recruit, but some are speculating that our failures with the top targets at WR sealed our fate.
Harken's back to Blake Fisher who was going to be great, then he gets injured in his first game and some guy named Joe Alt eventually took over and became the player Fisher was supposed to be. Blake was a good not great RT when he came back and by the reports I get in the Houston Chronicle he is having a good camp and could end up the starter or at least play quite a bit. And like that year we are going to struggle to find somebody to give us consistent play at LT. Some good young inexperienced guys on the roster. But they may have to play before they are ready. Maybe the next Joe Alt is amongst them.
According to an online guru these are the options ND has with Jagusah going down. Where will the Irish turn? A.) Graduate student Tosh Baker returns to the left side where he competed behind Joe Alt last season and started in the 2023 Sun Bowl. B.) Redshirt-sophomore Aamil Wagnerwho appeared to have supplanted Baker pre-camp as the team's starting right tackle after the pair competed all springcould move to the left side in Jagusah's stead, flipping Baker back to the right. C.) Red-shirt freshman Sullivan Absherwho trained at left tackle behind Jagusah in the spring but was working at left guard in our practice viewings last week could move back to compete at tackle. D.) One of Notre Dame's three potential starting guards, Billy Schrauth could get a look at tackle which would plant Pat Coogan and Rocco Spindler as the team's starting guard. E.) All of the above. F.) Freshman Guerby Lambert…but not in College Station It's August 5, and therefore safer to assume all of the above. Remember, Notre Dame cross-trained Aamil Wagner at guard last August. That's what training camp is for: to build depth from within.
Irish needed another DB in the 2025 class after Ivan Taylor dumped us, we got one in Brandon Logan. He's not highly rated like Taylor, so this is one of those trust the coaches. He is a top baseball prospect, and was committed to Vanderbilt. On Friday night, Logan publicly decommitted from Vanderbilt, citing opportunities that he had not anticipated. On Saturday, he publicly committed to the Irish. “Notre Dame's obviously a historical football program and I take pride in that,” Logan told Irish Sports Daily earlier this summer. “I go to Fort Wayne Snider and we also have a historical football program. I think that part attracts me to it.” Logan gives Notre Dame 22 current members of its 2025 class and joins a safety group that also includes Connecticut’s Ethan Long and North Carolina’s JaDon Blair. Sid is he right about FW Snider?
Yes. Not heavy on state championships (3, most recent 2023) but always among the strongest teams in NE Indiana. The head coach for the past 15+ years played on a senior league baseball team (age 13-15) I helped coach, which included my son, Brian. He and Brian have been friends since HS. Very nice (and smart) young man. P.S. Rod Woodson, former Steelers DB and member of NFL HOF is a Snider alum. P.P.S. I like that he had committed to Vanderbilt for baseball. I wonder if he’ll play both at ND.
Well I’m 72 now and after all these years as a Notre Dame fan with everything that’s going on in college football now I’m gonna pass on all the preseason hype and say ”show me” I’ll get excited when I see it.