@RivalsFriedman asked me to contribute to his Fact or Fiction today. His prompt: Riley Leonard will lead Notre Dame to the College Football Playoff.

The two of us agreed.

For you guys who follow recruiting closely, what are the chances ND lands Kendre Harrison? He is from Reidsville NC and is being recruited for the TE/DE positions. He is 6'7" and 235 lb. All the big schools are after him. 247Sports ranks him No. 2 overall and currently the ESPN top 150 has him ranked at No. 3 overall. Aside from being a highly sought after football recruit, he is apparently a very talented basketball player as well, having shattered a number of backboards with some power dunks. In bball he is ranked at No. 31 overall and No. 4 PF. There is an article in The Athletic on him, describing him as possbly being the next Julius Peppers. That is pretty high praise. He has said he wants to play football and bball for at least one year to see how things shake out. He sounds like he could start for ND's bball team right now! He describes ND as his "dream school," but we have heard that from other recruits that ended up going elsewhere. 2026 is a long ways off, but any predictions from you guys who follow recruiting?

Ouch.

McMurphy claims to know NBC’s preferred slate of primetime games for the whole season:

Sept 21 Iowa at Minnesota
Sept 28 Illinois at Penn St
Oct 5 Michigan at Washington
Oct 12 Ohio St at Oregon
Oct 19 Iowa at Michigan St
Oct 26 Penn St at Wisconsin
Nov 2 USC at Washington
Nov 9 FSU at Notre Dame
Nov 16 Oregon at Wisconsin
Nov 23 USC at UCLA
Nov 30 Oregon at Washington

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Despite what's been reported elsewhere, 2026 safety Blaine Bradford won't be visiting Notre Dame on Monday.

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Says I didn’t stop at stop sign. Well some ass clown was coming my way and had stopped in right hand lane. I needed to see past him. Hence I got a warning. But cop was a Ped state fan.
I asked him where’s his white out

He says “I see u r a ND fan (logo on car)
I say “what u think of your coach?”

He makes excuse “he does a lot with what he has”

I wanted to say “your coach sucks eggs”

But there was a ticket in the balance

He says” Freeman has underperformed”


I wanted to say “wtf do u know?”
But there was a ticket in the balance

So I left with a warning although I wanted to say “how’s your subscription to child porn?”

But there was a ticket in the balance
🥱

How in the hell were Pat and Chris Kavanaugh not placed on the 23-man training roster for the US National sixes team? Unless they both told the national lax coach they weren't interested, that's absolutely nuts.

Marcus Fakatou, a 6’7” 260 TE/DE from Ca. Kid just finished 8th grade, amazing…

Saw a picture of him standing with MF, no exaggeration on that size. Already has a handful of other offers, including USC.

vs. Louisville, Ga Tech, Florida State and USC ... Irish favored in all four.

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Congratulations to Jewel and Jackie for making the US Womens Olympic Basketball team. They are well deserving .
Even though i am not a big fan of Caitlyn Clark, the WNBA made a huge mistake leaving her off the team. Caitlyn Clark is to the WNBA that Magic Johnson and Larry Bird was to the NBA. All three saved or are saving their leagues. The WNBA from what i read has not made money. Clark puts people in the stands, sells merchandise and has more people watching the WNBA on tv or computer. Having Caitlyn Clark on the Olympic team would mean $$$$'s. Its my belief, that Caitlyn Clark right now is the most devastating and scary offensive player in the WNBA. She will eventually be a double double machine and most likely threaten the 30 point scoring level on a routine basis.
In my opinion she reminds me of having a similar affect as Taylor Swift has on the young. The more players that knock her down the more popular she will become. No matter what you think of her, she is one tough basketball player.
Not sure i will watch any of the US WBB, because i scratch my head at the roster and wonder if they will even win the Gold Medal. My attitude would be entirely different if Clark was playing. Her 3 point shooting and accuracy would be deadly on the world stage. Maybe its not to late for her to be on a 3 on 3 team. At the end of the day, leaving Clark off the Olympic team in my opinion was another terrible business decision. Even though two great former Irish players are on the roster. It makes me wonder why Arike did not make the roster. The olympic game is a bit different then their normal games.

The College Football Playoff game and TV schedule was released today.



More here:

Notre Dame was one of three offers reported Monday by five-star small forward Nate Ament. The Warrenton (Va.) Highland product also added offers from Oregon and Kentucky.

Ament's offer list has been growing as his ranking has been rising. He's added 14 offers since the start of May, including Alabama, North Carolina, Kansas, Texas and NC State. Rivals named Ament the No. 10 overall prospect in the 2025 class earlier this month. He was ranked 38th as recently as early November.

I've seen Ament's height listed anywhere from 6-7 to 6-10. He's listed at 6-8 by Team USA. In late May, Ament received one of the 12 roster spots for the USA Basketball U18 National Team.

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@Eric Hansen will have more with comments from Marcus Freeman on this, but we learned today that former Notre Dame/Alabama QB Tyler Buchner will rejoin the Irish football program as a walk-on wide receiver. He will still play lacrosse at ND as well.

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