Notre Dame kicked off Spring Practice 3/20/2013 and Kelly has given a few press conferences which you’ll find all over the ND sites. One of his interesting comments concerned Special Teams.

He noticed that Alabama’s Special Teams had ALL starters on every ST so he’s thinking of copying that – I don’t agree with that since most injuries occur on ST’s and most starters don’t want to have anything to do with it.

There is no reason the 2nd teamers couldn’t handle that with the exception of punt and kickoff returners. And Bama has so much depth they don’t have to worry about injuries.

Other notes of interest – the ILB’s at least starting now Calabrese and Grace handling Manti’s position.

The OL starters for now – Z. Martin, Watt, N. Martin(C) Hanratty and Lombard. 2nd team – Stanley, Heggie, Hegarty, Harrell and walk on Furlong. Elmer missed practice due to a Flu or something.

Of course all this could change and Kelly stated the most important position is Center – so look for a fierce battle between N.Martin, Harrell and Hegarty there.

Outside of ND 5 Star ILB Alex Anzalone is out of Spring ball with a shoulder injury at Florida.

Here’s a brief clip from und.com showing snippets of a practice – really nothing there and we really won’t see much else until the blue gold game on April 20th.