Clay Helton 17-5
Lincoln Riley 17-5

Notre Dame moved WR Rico Flores Jr. ahead of Tobias Merriweather as a starter on the official depth chart for the Pitt game. We handled the rest:

Pat Narduzzi dropped this one out of nowhere in today's press conference at Pitt. He was asked about penalties and found his way to the 2018 game somehow.

Q. How do you stay focused when you feel like you're not getting both ways, how do you stay focused despite those?

PAT NARDUZZI: I think that's what we have done. Again you can't get emotional like Donovan did, and it's an emotional game, he's trying to protect M.J. It's, like, just stay away.

But besides the emotional one there on one play which cost us 21 yards, you know, you've just got to keep your cool and play ball. I don't think our guys get emotional when it happens to them.

I mean, you go back and watch A.J. Woods, he's on there, it's a tiny little tug, and the guy is jamming, and supposedly when you lock your arm out, it's supposed to be called as offensive pass interference. But it doesn’t get called. When someone is pushing me off, I'm holding on for dear life, too.

Q. Does it bother you that all this is happening in the seventh game of the season?

PAT NARDUZZI: It bothers me when it happens in the first game and seventh game and bothered me even more because last time I was at Notre Dame, it happened in the whatever game on a post in the middle field. So it bothers me every game.

Here's that Boykin catch if you don't recall (1:34):

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Former Notre Dame wide receiver Miles Boykin discusses being back at ND for the USC game, what it was like playing against a Pat Narduzzi-led Pitt team, his game-winning touchdown catch against Pitt in 2018, ND's wide receivers, the patience required with development, what it takes to play as a freshman, getting out of a funk as WR, QB Sam Hartman's pro prospects, Boykin's game-winning touchdown against LSU, playing on both sides of the Pittsburgh Steelers-Baltimore Ravens rivalry, talking trash to Kenny Pickett and more.

Then Eric Hansen and I answer questions from Twitter and The Insider Lounge (20:00).

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From fightirish.com ... ND's Sports Info department

SAN DIEGO - The 2023-24 Notre Dame men’s basketball season may not have tipped off yet, but the program is excited to announce a tournament they’ll be competing in for the 2024-25 season.

Sports San Diego announced the field for the 2024 Rady Children’s Invitational which will feature the Irish alongside Purdue, Arkansas and BYU. The two-day tournament will take place on November 28-29 at LionTree Arena on the campus of UC San Diego.

“We are fired up to have these premier college basketball programs and institutions with amazing traditions and fan bases set to play in San Diego next year,” said Mark Neville, CEO of Sports San Diego, the organization that produces the tournament. “Together with Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, FOX Sports, UC San Diego Athletics, and Global Sports & Events, we endeavor to produce one of the best early season college basketball tournaments in the country. Part of that means securing top basketball programs year after year. We are extremely proud of this 2024 field.”

Notre Dame leads the overall series against Purdue 23-22. They last squared off on the hardwood in December of 2020 in Indianapolis.

Notre Dame and Arkansas have only squared off once - A 71-69 loss in St. Louis back on March 27, 1978. Meanwhile, the Irish lead BYU in the series 5-3. The last encounter - a 78-68 victory inside the Barclays Center in November of 2012.

The inaugural Rady Children’s Invitational tips off on November 23, 2023. The 2023 field includes the Iowa Hawkeyes (Big Ten), USC Trojans (Pac-12), Seton Hall Pirates (Big East) and the Oklahoma Sooners (Big 12).

The Irish kick off their 2023-24 campaign officially on Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. ET against Niagara.

I seems like a very long time since ND has played a game!

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Notre Dame's 2024 and 2025 commits once again performed at a high level on the gridiron last week. High school football is ramping up with most schools are down to their final games of the regular season or first games of the playoffs.

Inside ND Sports highlights four top performers with three from the offensive side of the ball. Stats and some video included.

2025 four-star QB Deuce Knight

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2024 four-star RB Kedren Young

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2025 four-star RB Justin Thurman

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2024 three-star DT Sean Sevillano Jr.

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Riddle me this, Irish fans ...

Midterms are over. The bye week is over. It's time for grades for Notre Dame's coaching staff.

Who has been Notre Dame's best coach? Worst coach?

Notre Dame goaltender Ryan Bischel couldn't limit No. 6 Boston University in back-to-back games on Friday and Saturday.

The Irish rode Bischel to a 4-1 victory on Friday night with him racking up 43 saves. But on Saturday, Bischel didn't make it past the first period when he allowed five goals on 22 shots in an 8-2 Irish loss.

Boston (2-2) scored first on Friday just 4:44 into the game at Compton Family Ice Arena. But the home Irish responded with four goals in the next 17 minutes of game time. Defenseman Drew Bavaro started the Notre Dame scoring with a power-play goal 9:53 into the first period. Then forwards Landon Slaggert and Justin Janicke added even-strength goals in the first period. Forward Danny Nelson scored his second goal of the season on a power play 1:44 into the second period.

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Notre Dame tried to keep it close Saturday when defenseman Ryan Siedem's goal pulled the Irish to within 2-1 just 5:15 into the game, but Boston's onslaught kept coming in the first and second periods. Notre Dame didn't score again until forward Tyler Carpenter put one home with less than seven minutes remaining in the game.

Sophomore Jack Williams replaced Bischel on Saturday. He allowed three goals and saved 25 shots in two periods.

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Notre Dame (2-3) will host Mercyhurst (0-1-2) for a two-game series Thursday and Friday.

Friday box score: ND 4, BU 1
Saturday box score: BU 8, ND 2

Worst offense since 2008 in points per game total yards and worst rushing offense since 2006

Looks like Tommy was worse than I though he was. I thought he’d had a really good offense with the Bama athletes but not so much.

Pat Narduzzi in his infinite football knowledge refused to get out of man defense and Will Fuller torched them for 3 tds, I remember. That’s all, have a great Monday…🙌☘️

Looking at box scores and if I was an Iowa fan I’d probably stop watching football. 127 total
yards on offense yesterday. The also had about 50 yards of penalties netting about 87 yards. Parker and Rees are wizards compared to Brian Ferentz

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Pittsburgh head coach Pat Narduzzi met with reporters Monday to recap the loss to Wake Forest and preview Saturday's game at Notre Dame. I've highlighted a couple of quotes about Notre Dame specifically in this first post. Then I'll share the full transcript below.

Transcript provided by Pitt's sports information department:

Q. Obviously you'll be challenged by Notre Dame. What can you do defensively? Is it personnel changes to improve that rush game quickly?

PAT NARDUZZI: Maybe. Maybe. We're looking at everything. But you know, every offense gives you a little bit different. And again, give Wake credit. They did some different things that we really didn't prepare for. They lined up in the pistol more than we've seen them.

New quarterback did some things different that we didn't practice as much more for. We practiced more on other things that they didn't do when we didn't know who the quarterback was going to be and didn't know there was any issue with their starting quarterback. So prepared for him, and then had really a totally different guy in there. And again they switched the run game up a little bit.

But you know, we've got to execute. And again, we haven't forgot how to coach defense and how to stop the run, okay. It's what we do. And you know, it's like I said, we've got to coach better. We've got to get it out of them and they have got to learn better and execute better, and that's what it comes down to.

Q. From what you've seen from Sam Hartman this year, how has he evolved as a passer from the last time you saw him, which I believe was in 2021?

PAT NARDUZZI: Obviously a totally different offense. He's in a pro-style offense. He's huddling up and taking snaps under center. If he's going to play in the NFL, it's going to be in that type of offense, not what they are doing at Wake Forest.

I think he's probably enjoying it. I think it's every childhood kids’ dream to play in the National Football League, and he's going to have an opportunity just by being able to make run checks, sit underneath the center and do all the things that they ask him to do there. I'll think he'll obviously have a better opportunity in that atmosphere and circumstances.

So you know, he throws the ball well. He's a calm guy. He can run. He can scramble. He's still a great athlete. You don't see anything abnormal there. Again, we haven't really talked Notre Dame; so we'll get into Notre Dame.

Obviously Marcus Freeman has done an outstanding job here in his second season. They have got a talented team. When you put the tape on and watch those shiny gold helmets, they fly around, they look good. They are probably as good looking a team as you are going to walk out on game day and see, and they play fast.

All the receivers look like tight ends. They wear 80s numbers, too, which disguise them. You're not sure how many tight ends there are. They play with four tight ends at times in formations and they will go all the way to play with four wideouts. Tailbacks are athletic and you have got Hartman.

And defensively Al Golden is running the defense, and you guys know Al from back in Miami. Was in the league for a while. But a great coach. He's done a great job with their defense. And again, four down, they are all physical, they are all fast. I can't sit there and focus on one guy because there's 11 of them. They are as talented a football team as you're going to face out there. So we'll have our hands full.

Have a lot of guys on that staff I know. Start with Mike Mickens, coaching the corners. You guys saw him. So it will be a nice little reunion there. Max Bullough, one of our linebackers, is there on that staff as well. And Gino Guidugli, old Cincinnati quarterback is the quarterback coach.

So there's some familiarity with their staff as well. It will be a great challenge for our guys to go into South Bend. I think they were fired up last night to close the chapter and move on.

Wtf is the matter with you ass hats. Why are you rooting against Tommy Rees. Tommy is working for the best college football coach in the history of the sport. We need him to learn all of it and be a prodigy and come back to ND and run the program for 20 years. It’s exhausting to read this board.

Could be 7-0 but we see the impact of a weak QB, turnover of coordinators, and Dabo looking very vulnerable. Them being 4-3 is a bad scenario for us. They will be up and probably play a great game against us, yet we won't get much credit when we beat them. Worst scenario for me, as will be at the game for the weekend and I'm now anticipating a noon kickoff. How can I tailgate all day and watch the game properly with a noon kickoff? WTF!

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I’m here at Elgin (lll.) High to get a look at Notre Dame 2024 wide receiver commit Cam Williams.

This is Glenbard South’s final regular season game. The Raiders are 7-1 and according to MaxPreps, Williams has 30 receptions for 643 receiving yards and nine touchdowns.

Williams also lines up at safety for Glenbard South and has 12 tackles and one interception on the season.

I won’t be keeping up with other Notre Dame commits due to being here, but I will look out for any clips or statistics on social media and get that to a seperate thread.

Kick off is slated for 8:10 p.m. ET. I’ll use this thread for live updates and periodically on X/Twitter at @cbowles01. I’ll also be shooting video tonight and have highlights of Williams on Saturday.

Marcus Freeman provided injury updates on wide receivers Jayden Thomas, Jaden Greathouse and Deion Colzie.

Thomas and Greathouse should be as healthy as they've been. Colzie isn't quite back yet.

Notre Dame emerging as a serious contender after his recent visit:

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