The burning question for fans of the Fighting Irish has finally been answers. Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly has announced that senior Dayne Crist will begin the season as the starting quarterback. Crist beat out sophomore Tommy Rees. “I expect him to be the starter for 13 weeks,” Kelly said. “We’ve got great confidence [...]

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New Notre Dame football head coach Brian Kelly returned home to Cincinnati this weekend after being introduced as coach on Friday. It seems that some folks weren’t too fond of Kelly’s hasty departure for Notre Dame.  The new coach tweeted the following: Not nice, Cincy fans…not nice.

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Head coach Charlie Weis was fired by Notre Dame on Monday after several disappointing seasons and amid a horrid four-game losing streak. Athletic director Jack Swarbrick made the announcement public via a press release: “We have great expectations for our football program, and we have not been able to meet those expectations.” On Sunday, Swarbrick [...]

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Reports emerged last week that Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen was punched in the face just hours after the Fighting Irish lost a double-OT contest to UConn. Later in the week, Clausen showed up at practice with a black visor covering his face. In Notre Dame’s loss to Stanford on Saturday night, pictures of the [...]

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On the top ten list of “things I didn’t expect to hear today,” this news probably comes in at about #2. Spencer Tillman of CBS Sports at halftime of the Alabama-Auburn game on Friday that former Baltimore Ravens coach Brian Billick could be a leading candidate for the opening that will soon exist at Notre [...]

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