Brian Kelly addresses replacing center Jarrett Patterson and right guard Tommy Kraemer.
https://notredame.rivals.com/news/notre-dame-offensive-line-takes-business-as-usual-stance

Nik Djogo, Juwan Durham, Prentiss Hubb and Cormac Ryan are the four captains for this year.

Not all surprised Cormac is in there despite not yet having played a game.

No general public will be allowed at basketball games to start the year. Same goes with hockey. Here's the release:

The University of Notre Dame, in accordance with campus health and safety protocols and with the guidance of local health officials, will limit attendance at the beginning of the winter seasons to only guests of student-athletes and coaches of competing teams at this year’s men’s and women’s basketball and hockey games.

Those in attendance will be required to adhere to campus policies to protect the local community (i.e. wearing a mask, practicing physical distancing, etc.).

As the seasons progress, the University, the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Big Ten Conference will continue to monitor the conditions and evaluate the possibility of welcoming additional audiences. If Notre Dame decides to extend invitations beyond the campus community, season ticket members will receive priority to purchase single game tickets.

For additional questions regarding becoming a season ticket member, please contact the Murnane Family Ticket Office at 574-631-7356 or email at tickets@nd.edu.

So the FSU game was cancelled for a positive test from someone that practiced all week and travelled by plane and then bus and stayed in the hotel with the rest of the team - shouldn’t Clemson have a whole bunch of guys in quarantine due to contact tracing?

Notre Dame Football’s offensive line unit has earned a selection to the 2020 Joe Moore Award Midseason Honor Roll, a distinction that annually honors the “toughest, most physical offensive line in the country.”

This marks the second-consecutive season in which the Irish have been named to the midseason honor roll. Notre Dame won the award in 2017.

Notre Dame’s starting offensive line boasts 147-career starts between the five veterans (Liam Eichenberg, Aaron Banks, Jarrett Patterson, Tommy Kraemer and Robert Hainsey), the fifth-most starts among a starting offensive line nationally, and third-most in the FBS. For their performances, four of Notre Dame’s five starting lineman have been named ACC Offensive Lineman of the Week this season. However, Patterson (foot) will be out the remainder of the season while Kraemer underwent a recent appendectomy, which will force the Irish to rely on their depth.

Behind its stellar offensive line, Notre Dame is one of three Power 5 teams to post three performances of 36:15 or more possession time this season. No other FBS teams have produced more than three games this season with at least 36:15 in possession time (Wisconsin, Louisville, Charlotte, Coastal Carolina and Liberty have also marked three such performances). The Irish held control of the ball for 40:59 minutes of possession time at Pitt, the second-most by an ACC team in a single game this season. Notre Dame has won the time of possession battle in seven of eight games.

The Irish lead the ACC in fewest sacks allowed (13) and are also tied for second in the ACC in rushing offense (233.5 yards per game) with a 208-yard rushing performance vs. Clemson and 274 yards at Boston College.

The award’s voting committee is composed of college football experts, especially those who played or coached the offensive line position, including all of the current offensive line coaches at the Division I/FBS level, as well as former players, coaches and colleagues of Coach Moore and select media.

The only major college football award that honors a group in lieu on an individual, the award is named for Joe Moore, a famed offensive line coach who spent nine seasons in that role for Notre Dame, coaching student-athletes such as Aaron Taylor, founder of the Joe Moore Award, Andy Heck, now offensive line coach for the Kansas City Chiefs, and Tim Ruddy, Pro Bowl center for the Miami Dolphins in the Dan Marino era.

On UNC's offense, the offensive line, wide receivers, recruiting and more:

Depth chart has been released with sophomore Zeke Correll making his first career start at center this Friday versus North Carolina while Josh Lugg will be the top right guard.

Both the Fighting Irish and Tar Heels have found their strides on offense, but Notre Dame's more efficient, veteran and sound defense is likely to be the difference.
https://notredame.rivals.com/news/notre-dame-north-carolina-defensive-damage-control

I had heard this could be an earlier decision, but didn't think it would be this early. Top-150 2022 guard Fletcher Loyer out of Fort Wayne (Ind.) Homestead is announcing his college choice Monday. Notre Dame offered in August and has been in touch much longer than that.
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BYU is an embarrassment to college football and should not be considered for a major bowl, regardless of their record, let alone the CFB Playoffs.

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Thanks.

After receiving his offer from Notre Dame tonight, I have put in a FutureCast pick for Jojo Johnson to end up committing and signing with the Irish.

Notre Dame cornerbacks coach Mike Mickens had a prior relationship with Johnson at Cincinnati where Johnson was formerly committed to, and that relationship has continued. I expect the Irish to land Johnson before the end of the month and make him the fifth defensive back in the class.

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If you can only pick one, who do you got?

I almost chose Wright because I think we need a corner more than RB or DT but i have to go with Edwards. No wrong choice in choosing either of the 3.

The two female students that were recently killed on Ironwood road .....was there any further information/details released on what happened? Alcohol involved at all? or just a group of kids crossing a dark road at the wrong time and driver didn't see them? I happened to be down at the Notre Dame bookstore on Saturday afternoon and saw an issue of the most recent Observer newspaper with their pictures on the front. Very sad situation...I feel horrible for their families. From the article ....it seemed they were very well-liked and made lots of friends easily.
Just wondered if anyone knew anymore info regarding the incident. Thanks

Iowa, Michigan State and Purdue had made Johnson a priority, but this offer has dramatically changed the complexion of his recruitment, as he explains in the article below:

Not impressed! Quite frankly OSU looks vulnerable They were fortunate that game did not go into extra frames.

Mike Brey's talking like he wants Notre Dame to be an NCAA tournament team and setting that as the expectation. To get there, ND needs a resume. I outlined the games that are musts, games that are steals and toss-ups that will determine how strong that resume is:

In-state DB adds offer from Notre Dame.

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Notes & thoughts on what happened this week and what's to come for Notre Dame in the 2021 class.

Notre Dame is 12-4 all time on this date, most recently a 40-7 rout of Boston College last year. In 1963, it also cancelled the game at Iowa because of the previous day's assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This is the only time in this feature we feature a loss, too:

Bronze Medal, 1974: The 38-0 defeat of Air Force was a snoozer, but it was the last one at home for 1964-74 head coach Ara Parseghian, who had privately made the decision to step down one year after leading his second consensus national title, and third overall, at Notre Dame. The win also set up the 9-1 and No. 5-ranked Fighting Irish for a potential national title showdown for the second straight season against unbeaten Alabama, this time in the Orange Bowl.

Silver Medal, 1996: Unlike with Parseghian, this time the whole world knew that another 11th-year head coach, Lou Holtz (1986-1996), was stepping down. A day later, his defensive coordinator, Bob Davie, would be named his successor.
The game itself was a mismatch, a 62-0 blowout of Rutgers (Holtz had referred to them as "Ruptures" during the week), but the emotion in the stadium was palpable. Holtz's speech at the end is among the highlights.
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Gold Medal, 1887: This is the day it all began, ladies and gentleman. Notre Dame's first football game was played when it hosted a team from the University of Michigan to instruct them on this game that was invented 18 years earlier, with Rutgers and Princeton the participants.
Notre Dame lost 8-0 (touchdowns were worth four points back then), to begin and end its season at 0-1.
How many people watching or participating or hearing about it back then might have said, "10, 20, 50, 100 ... 133 years from now, who will know, or care?"

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The Notre Dame football team had one positive test out of 232 administered from Nov. 10 through Sunday, it announced this Tuesday . That player is in isolation and did not travel to the 45-31 win over Boston College. There were no close contacts identified through contact tracing.

As of Nov. 16, there is one player in isolation and two others in quarantine who were previously identified as a close contact. The fall semester ended Friday, and the 8-0 and No. 2-ranked Irish begin prep work for next Friday's game at 6-2 North Carolina, which also is off this weekend.

How fragile this can always be showed again this weekend with numerous postponements and cancellations, including Clemson versus Florida State.

I've mentioned him on a few occasions recently, including a thread earlier today. Not surprised to see this offer go out. Low three-star at the moment but he'll probably be bumped up to four-star by the start of next fall.

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have you guys heard about this? Troy Vincent an Exec with the NFL has gotten owners to agree with what has to be the dumbest rule ever. When I first read it I thought Jason Whitlock was writing an article for The Onion because it was so ridiculous. Here's what it says, if a team hires away a black front office person, or coach from another team, that team will receive two compensatory third round picks in the next draft. So, if KC should win the SB again this year, and Eric Bienemy is hired from say, Houston to be it's HC, KC will receive two third round picks. Does that not sound like the most stupid thing you have ever heard? Coaches of course were not consulted.

Here's the question. It seems like many are receiving inside information here, and I'm wondering where you're getting it. I'm always on Singer to throw something out my way, but I can never break him. I'm beginning to think it's just me. So here it is - how do we know that Zeke will be starting at center and Lugg at guard? Now I'm not saying that can't happen, but keep in mind what we see on Saturday could be what we see for the rest of the regular season, and possibly the ACC championship game.
There were some of us that thought Lugg was going to play center, that is until Kraemer went down. He could still play it because if you remember it was Dillan Gibbons who filled in at LG earlier in the season, and we could possibly see Lugg at center and Gibbons at RG. What about Colin Grunhard at center? I'll guess we'll find out tomorrow.

Here's my concern. It's not about the quality of the player as much as it's going to be about communication. Losing 2 linemen who play next to each other is a big deal, and especially if one is your center. Putting 2 players in that don't have much game experience is concerning as well - especially at center.
I watched Michigan last night and I saw that they started the kid from Moeller at center for the first time. I wasn't focusing on him, but I did every time that Rutgers ran a stunt or had a delayed blitz for a sack or QB hurry and they showed the play again. It was clear that they were on their blocks, but the problem was 2 guys blocking 1 and no one looking for a stunt or blitz. It was clear to me that the defender being blocked by the center should have been passed off once the guard was engaged. Communication problems. I'm not saying it's going to happen Saturday, but am I concerned? Sure I am, but hopefully coach Quinn can get them all playing as one.

So lets be honest. If there was one game where we had to break in 2 new starters, this would be it. Nothing about the front 7 of this North Carolina defense scares me, and especially up front. The interior players are not overly big or quick, and the starters play a bunch of snaps during the course of the game, and that's mainly due to having freshmen as the back-ups at both DT spots and at DE. They'll mix up their fronts from what looks like our defense to a 3 man and a 5 man. Again, there will be times that the center is going to have someone directly over him, and he needs to handle it.

It's a pretty simple game plan. Do what you do best and that's run the ball right at them between the tackles. They have not seen a running game like this all season, and their lack of depth is going to hurt them even worse ion Saturday. NC is giving up 152 rushing yards a game, and that includes playing teams who rank 12/15/, 14/15 and 15/15 in rushing yards in the ACC. Our backs are well rested and we'll be able to throw 3 fresh ones out there.