Tag: fall practice

9 Practices Complete

ND Editor August 14, 2011 Football Tagged Brian Kelly, Carlo Calabrese, fall camp, fall practice, Fox, Jack Nolan, Notre Dame, Prince Shembo, Tom Hammond, Troy Niklas

With 1st full week over and done, as mentioned before, this up coming week will in all probability determine the depth chart.

Most positions filled and Kelly signaled that Shembo gets the nod over Spond.

That leaves the Calabrese Fox contest with Carlo in the lead.

OG’s –looks like it will be a 3 man rotation Watt, Nuss and Robinson.

Concerning Spond–don’t know how fast he is(looks thin to me) looks more like a Safety and maybe best in the long run for him.

I say this for apparently frosh Troy Niklas 6”7" 250 lbs third at this OLB position really opened eyes this week–even got nickname "Hercules".

Don’t like losing Nicols and hope we can land couple more OL recruits

At end of this week will probably learn who won QB derby.

Finally why can’t we get rid of Tom Hammond on NBC broadcasts–I nominate Jack Nolan of UND.com . Keep Mayock–he’s been very good.

Camp Just About Half Way

ND Editor August 13, 2011 Football Tagged fall camp, fall practice, Notre Dame, Tate Nichols, Troy Niklas

Media had access today.

Players have about 5 days to make their case and apparently Troy Niklas ( frosh)OLB is making his.

Tate Nichols (soph) 2nd team OT out for month with dislocated kneecap

A lot of the younger players got a look today–will be looking for Kelly’s post practice report.

Heating Up

ND Editor August 11, 2011 Football Tagged Aaron Lynch, Brian Kelly, fall camp, fall practice, Louis Nix

ND team in full pads Wednesday and some real good hitting drills taped–thank you Jesus.

I’m linking to a few posts courtesy of und.com Replay the drill over and over and what stands out — no one can block Nix or Lynch one on one.

Enjoy!!! 1-Brian Kelly Update 8/10/2011 courtesy of und.com 2-Practice and drills again from und.com

August Doldrums

ND Editor August 10, 2011 Football Tagged Aaron Lynch, Braxston Cave, Brian Kelly, fall camp, fall practice, Louis Nix, Notre Dame, Stephon Tuitt

Disappointed that we haven’t landed a quality RB by now–hopefully, something will pop soon.

The usual coming out of fall camp so far–bigger, faster and stronger. But we hear that every year.

Believe this is day 5 and that should mean 1st day in full pads. I’ll be watching out for hamstring injuries. While I fully understand why Kelly wants closed practices– I would really like to see the Linemen go one on one–like to see Cave vs Nix and the other OL’s against Lynch and Tuitt. Get the same deal going with the LB’S .

Like to see the offense ag defense just running the ball–that wouldn’t tip off anything about full offense but would be interesting.

Day 1 Fall Camp

ND Editor August 7, 2011 Football Tagged Aaron Lynch, Andrew Nuss, Carlo Calabrese, Dayne Crist, fall camp, fall practice, Fox, MacDonald, Manti Teo, Notre Dame, Stephon Tuitt, Williams

S. Tuitt is one big dude
Andrew Nuss running with 1st team as LG.
ILB–looks like most competitive with Calabrese, Fox and MacDonald fighting for the spot opposite Teo. Whoever complements Teo the best will start–I like Carlo.

QB–think it’s Crist barring injury or mental breakdown.

No doubt that freshman Williams, Tuitt and Lynch will play as will redshirt Nix. Also no doubt barring injury and if they live up to hype all four will go early to NFL draft. So we have 3 seasons out of them. So enjoy while you can and hope Teo stays for senior season.