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Notre Dame Football – Eligibility/Projected Depth Chart 2020-2022

What better way to get pumped up for spring football then to look at what’s coming in the pipeline for the Irish. I’ve put together an eligibility chart (based not on year in school, but total eligibility remaining including committed high …

What better way to get pumped up for spring football then to look at what’s coming in the pipeline for the Irish.

I’ve put together an eligibility chart (based not on year in school, but total eligibility remaining including committed high schoolers) and a PROJECTED depth chart for 2020-2022.

I need to reiterated: this is projected based on what I think it may look like.

Used the tabs at the bottom to scroll from sheet to sheet.

Bookmark this page and keep track of what the roster could look like for the Irish in 2020 and moving forward.

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University of Notre Dame Police Seek Help to Find Missing Student

They ask that anyone who has seen Annrose Jerry since or has any potential information on her whereabouts call the Notre Dame Police Department at 574-631-5555.

Annrose Jerry, a Senior who lives on Notre Dame’s campus has not been seen since the night of January 21 and university police are seeking help from the community to help find her.

The University of Notre Dame tweeted out the following on Thursday night:

In the release on Notre Dame’s website, Annrose Jerry is listed as 5-feet-5-inches in height and has dark hair.

The university states that Jerry was last seen at 8:45 Tuesday night at Coleman-Morse Hall. They ask that anyone who has seen Annrose Jerry since or has any potential information on her whereabouts call the Notre Dame Police Department at 574-631-5555.

Here’s to hoping this ends well.

Clemson Will Play at Notre Dame After Bye Week

Some Notre Dame fans may be upset about the fact Clemson gets an extra week to prepare and get healthy for Notre Dame.

The ACC announced its schedule for the 2020 football season on Wednesday morning and Notre Dame fans probably aren’t going to be too happy.

That is because the marquee opponent of 2020, the defending national runner up and the team that figures to be a runaway number one entering the season will be coming off their bye week when they play at Notre Dame in November 7.

That’s right, the Clemson Tigers will play Syracuse on October 24, have a bye week on Halloween weekend and then come to Notre Dame on November 7.

Meanwhile, Notre Dame will play host to Duke on Halloween before welcoming Clemson to Notre Dame Stadium for only the second time ever a week later.

Are you surprised?

I’m not but I’m not upset about it, either.

You may recall that Notre Dame played seven teams coming off a bye week last year and went 7-0 in such games. Meanwhile the Irish went 1-1 after the bye in 2019 including the debacle at Michigan to end October.

To me that’s life as an independent. When you say you embrace getting everyone else’s best shots that doesn’t just for middle of the road squads who play their best game of the year against you.

It goes for the elite programs like Clemson as well.

Don’t make excuses, make plays.

Get me to November already!

Notre Dame’s 2019 Season Gets a Grade

I tend to agree with Kelly who said immediately following the 33-9 win over Iowa State in the Camping World Bowl that it was a good team who had one bad night.

What letter-grade would you give Notre Dame for their 2019 football season?

Perhaps this is an exercise that myself and Jeff Feyerer will do in the coming days but the USA TODAY’s Paul Myerburg did exactly that, giving all 130 FBS teams a letter grade.

One thing to remember about the grade is that it was given strictly on final win-loss record but it’s also graded based on expectations back in the pre-season.

24 teams nationwide received a letter grade of at least an “A-“, but Notre Dame was not one of them.

The Irish instead checked in with a “B+”, as did 14 other teams including Wisconsin, Penn State and Week One opponent, Louisville.

I don’t have much of a fuss to make about Myerburg’s grade for the Irish as it was a successful failure to quote “Apollo 13”.

Brian Kelly’s Fighting Irish accomplished a lot, winning a 10 or more games for the third time in a row, something that had only been done once previously in school history.

But they lost their two biggest contests of the year at Georgia and Michigan, with the loss in Ann Arbor being a 45-14 disaster that will unfortunately be the first thing many remember the 2019 squad for.

I tend to agree with Kelly who said immediately following the 33-9 win over Iowa State in the Camping World Bowl that it was a good team who had one bad night.

Unfortunately that one bad night kept them from potential A-territory and out of the College Football Playoff conversation in November.

For that I can’t be as generous and give them even a B+, as good as some things were.

My grade for the year is a solid “B” as the Michigan disaster did occur while the biggest wins came against two teams Navy and Virginia who you won’t find in any post-season top 15.

For what it’s worth, Notre Dame’s 2019 opponents received the following grades:
A: Navy
A-: Georgia, Virginia
B+: Louisville
B: Iowa State
B-: Michigan, Virginia Tech
C+: Duke
C: Boston College, USC
D+: Bowling Green, Stanford
D: New Mexico

Notre Dame Football: Kirk Herbstreit Weighs in on Tommy Rees Promotion

Now one of the biggest names in College Football media has weighed in on the Rees promotion as Kirk Herbstreit shared his thoughts on Twitter Monday morning.

Yesterday’s news didn’t come as much of a surprise to Notre Dame football fans but it was news nonetheless as Tommy Rees was promoted from quarterbacks coach to offensive coordinator.

One of the first to endorse the move was Notre Dame legend and two-time All-Pro offensive guard for the Indianpolis Colts, Quenton Nelson, who spoke up the former Fighting Irish quarterback.

Now one of the biggest names in College Football media has weighed in on the Rees promotion as Kirk Herbstreit shared his thoughts on Twitter Monday morning.

Herbstriet says that players will love playing for him, a sentiment that has been echoed by several former Notre Dame players on Twitter over the last 24 hours.

Let’s hope that beyond players loving him, that points are scored with regularity against the toughest opponents in 2020 unlike over the last two seasons.

Notre Dame Checks into Top 10 in 2020 “Way Too Early” Top 25

The Sporting News released their “way too early Top 25 for 2020” today and if it’s any indication, it could be the highest Notre Dame enters a season since 2006.

Yesterday we went over “The Ten Most Exciting March-ups for 2020” as rated by 247Sports and saw how Notre Dame made a pair of appearances.

The game against Clemson is setting up to be massive as the Tigers could be riding a nearly 40 game winning streak by then.

Clemson again figures to be a top two or three team entering 2020, but how high might Notre Dame check in?

The Sporting News released their “way too early Top 25 for 2020” today and if it’s any indication, it could be the highest Notre Dame enters a season since 2006.

Bill Bender ranks the Irish at No. 8, just behind Oklahoma and just-ahead of Penn State and states Notre Dame will again he in the heart of the College Football Playoff conversation.

There will be a million different things to discuss as the season approaches but expectations nationally appear to be as high as they are for Notre Dame fans entering 2020.

ND Football All-Decade Team – Quarterback

He’s 22 starts in, with 13 or 14 more to go hopefully, but Book was the only Notre Dame quarterback during this time period whose big numbers matched the team’s lofty success.

With Notre Dame’s season concluded and the entire college football season just waiting for the coronation next Monday night, what better time than now to reflect on the last decade of Notre Dame football. There is a little over three months until the April 18th spring game so let’s fill that time with some Brian Kelly-era reflection.

Over the next few months, we’re going to run through the best games, players and moments from the last ten years of Notre Dame football.

With the first installment, we start with the most important position in football. Here are the four quarterbacks on our 53-man All-Decade Team.

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Notre Dame Football: Top 10 Returning Quarterbacks Ranked by PFF

Notre Dame may be getting their experienced signal-caller back but what they won’t be getting is a top ten returning quarterback.
At least not according to Pro Football Focus.

Notre Dame received great news on December 29 when starting quarterback Ian Book took to social media to announce that he would be returning to South Bend for one final season.

The Irish get their QB-1 back and their starter since he took over for Brandon Wimbush in late September of 2018.

All he’s done since is help guide the Irish to their only ever College Football Playoff appearance and helped lead them to victories in 19 of his 22 career starts.

Notre Dame may be getting their experienced signal-caller back but what they won’t be getting is a top ten returning quarterback.

At least not according to Pro Football Focus.

PFF released their list of “The Top Ten Returning Quarterbacks for 2020” on Wednesday and Book was nowhere to be found.

What you did find however was that the best returning quarterback will be in South Bend on November 7 as Trevor Lawrence was given that honor (no surprise).

Jamie Newman checked in at number three and was supposed to take on Notre Dame as Wake Forest’s quarterback but he announced recently that he’d be transferring and is yet to announce his next destination.

It’s not surprising to see Book unranked as I can’t put him over anyone on the list. I am however more optimistic than some about the steps he may be able to take before the regular season as I thought he played perhaps his best month of football to date this past November.

With that said, I’m not going to argue that he was wronged in any way as the difference in quarterback play in two of Notre Dame’s three most recent losses (Clemson ’18, Georgia ’19) has been as glaring as anything else on the field.

Notre Dame Football: Phil Jurkovec Enters Transfer Portal

Jurkovec appeared in mop-up duty several times this year as he completed 12 of 15 passes for 222 yards and two touchdowns while not throwing any interceptions.

Sophomore quarterback Phil Jurkovec’s days at Notre Dame may be numbered as he entered the transfer portal Wednesday.

Despite being a highly regarded, four-star recruit Jurkovec has been unable to pass Ian Book on Notre Dame’s depth chart.

Jurkovec appeared in mop-up duty several times this year as he completed 12 of 15 passes for 222 yards and two touchdowns while not throwing any interceptions. He added another 130 yards on the ground, averaging 5.9 yards per carry.

Per SI/Bryan Driskell, it wasn’t simply a lack of playing time that is the reason for Jurkovec’s portal entry. Jurkovec is said to have been upset about comments made about the coaching staff lacking trust in him.

Although in the portal it is not a guarantee that Jurkovec is gone from Notre Dame as they can still try and talk him into staying.

As it sits now Ian Book enters 2020 the obvious starter at quarterback while freshman Drew Pyne is set to enroll this month. Reserves Brendon Clark, JD Carney, and Cole Caplan also all return to the team next year.

Notre Dame Football: The Decade That Was – A Series

Today I’m happy to announce that at Fighting Irish Wire we will be recapping the decade that was for Notre Dame football in the coming days and weeks as thoroughly as you’ll find.

As the decade has come to a close we felt that it was a good time to look back at the ten years that was for Notre Dame football under Brian Kelly.

A few weeks back I took a look at Notre Dame football’s last ten years versus the ten years before them and all of the strides the program has made while discussing plenty of the strides that still remain.

Today I’m happy to announce that at Fighting Irish Wire we will be recapping the decade that was for Notre Dame football in the coming days and weeks as thoroughly as you’ll find.

What was the biggest play of the last ten years?

What loss hurt the most?

What are the biggest “what-ifs?” that happened?

We will have posts and countdowns to all of them in the coming days.

Jeff Feyerer has been doing a great job helping me with this and has put together his Notre Dame All Decade Team that we will unveil by positions as well.

First up, being released later today will be a countdown of Notre Dame’s 10 Biggest Wins of the Decade.

Be on the lookout for all of it at Fighting Irish Wire and as always, feel free to react in our entirely free forum which is set up for Notre Dame fans from all over to discuss their favorite team year-round.

Thanks as always for reading and Go Irish!