Hey Notre Dame fans the best thing that has happened since the NC Title Game is that Ja'Darien Price did not enter the transfer portal. Al Golden loss is a tough loss but honestly rather expected. good for Golden, he earned that. That GM guy is replaceable. Retaining Ja'Darien Price was HUGE. It also shows what culture Freemand and Deeland Mculaugh have cultivated when a top shelf TB like Price who could be RB 1 at damn near any school of his choice, decides to ride it out for another year in a dual role with Love is pretty damn cool and speaks to his love for ND and the culture created by the staff, school, teammates, commuinty. Now obvioulsy he cans still transfer after spring ball but for now this is a HUGE recruiting win for us
Best news since the Title game is......
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Jadarian Price graduates from Notre Dame soon. Never thought he would leave.
And Jadarian Price IMO will not transfer after the Spring semester.
There weren't any. None. Especially since Jadarian is an academic junior, and graduates soon.
If any RB would possibly consider transferring, it would be someone like freshman Kedren Young or maybe sophomore Aneyas Williams, at least IMO.
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I guess this does not say a whole lot about Riley Leonard's "make up....," who "left..." Duke and transferred to Notre Dame before graduating.
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I agree with the overall sentiment: Marcus Freeman is a solid and even developing coach who is leveraging culture as well as NIL, transfers, and the ND brand. Notre Dame for me right now is a big seaworthy ship in the torrid storm of current college football.
The Irish will take some hits. Inevitable. Losing coaches and players, but the volatility is relatively minor compared to others. The ship remains sea-proof.
Great season. Notre Dame is legitimately elite. Truly a top 5. Holtz like feel.
I enjoyed posting through the season with you all. What a treat the Fighting Irish gave us. Thanks for the camaraderie.
I'll do my usual tail off till next season. Post here a bit. Maybe drop in on big news. I'm more of an in season poster.
Enjoy life.
The Irish will take some hits. Inevitable. Losing coaches and players, but the volatility is relatively minor compared to others. The ship remains sea-proof.
Great season. Notre Dame is legitimately elite. Truly a top 5. Holtz like feel.
I enjoyed posting through the season with you all. What a treat the Fighting Irish gave us. Thanks for the camaraderie.
I'll do my usual tail off till next season. Post here a bit. Maybe drop in on big news. I'm more of an in season poster.
Enjoy life.
I don't really think it's that big of a deal. Most good players stay with their teams, all across the P4 ranks, and presumably they are being paid competitive NIL to stay. If they really could get three or four times as much, or even twice as much, or even 50% more, you would see truly mass exoduses, of a winning team's entire starting lineup leaving for much bigger money. You just would, doesn't matter if they're already starters, no one's going to turn down doubling their NIL income. And yet very few established starters or top players leave. You look at the portal and it's like, this is not some murderer's row of the best players nationally at their positions. It's a random mishmash. Because proven, good players like JP are being taken care of by ND. I'm guessing when it came to Malachi Fields, ND scouted him out, and made him an offer he couldn't refuse, and UVA wasn't going to match. And then they ended up getting old boy, so it was like a trade. I would love to see JT catch 50 passes for UVA next year.
Well clearly Notre Dame is the only premier institution in the land that offers the blend of academic excellence and opportunities to compete for a national championship. So when players leave, they’re clearly leaving because they don’t want to compete or chasing money…duh 🤪
Agreed and i hope he sticks through the spring. It is also very big that both Aneyas Williams (man, he made some some big big plays --especially as a receiver in the last few games!) and Kedren Young (love his size! we don't have a big back like him!) stick as both Price and Williams will be gone in '26.
25: Love, Price, Williams, Young (with CJ as QB, I expect a lot of 2-back stuff, like OSU)
26: Williams, Young, James (and hopefully 5* Freshman!)
Not sure where that leave Payne...
25: Love, Price, Williams, Young (with CJ as QB, I expect a lot of 2-back stuff, like OSU)
26: Williams, Young, James (and hopefully 5* Freshman!)
Not sure where that leave Payne...
True, but you can’t have it both ways
You can’t applaud him leaving Cincinnati to come to Notre Dame and then excoriate him for leaving Notre Dame for LSU
Honestly, most elite RB's would prefer a dual role in college to save their bodies from the punishment they take. They certainly don't want to be worn out by the time they enter the NFL
How is ND rebuilding for next season? We'll have a new QB, which is an extremely common phenomenon, and we have some good ones to choose from. We easily could have gone 11-1 and made the playoffs with Angeli IMO. And that's because our defense is what carried us. And for next season our DBs should be great, our LBs should be great, and our DL, provided everyone's healthy should also be pretty great, even though we do lose two NFL caliber DTs. On offense our OL will be among the best, our RB room will be among the best, our WR corps is at least serviceable. TEs should be good. And of course we have a new QB and presumably a new, more traditional passing game philosophy to go with it. But who knows on that score.
And of course we have to replace Al Golden, which obviously is the biggest unknown for the team. At a glance, MF appears to have wanted someone who can hit the ground running, and does not have to learn on the job, and whether or not he continues with the same defensive schemes or whatnot remains to be seen. But at least he's a vet who's done it before and presumably, hopefully will bring that same general competence and experience.
So we're not rebuilding. We didn't lose enough to constitute that. We're retooling, how about that?
And of course we have to replace Al Golden, which obviously is the biggest unknown for the team. At a glance, MF appears to have wanted someone who can hit the ground running, and does not have to learn on the job, and whether or not he continues with the same defensive schemes or whatnot remains to be seen. But at least he's a vet who's done it before and presumably, hopefully will bring that same general competence and experience.
So we're not rebuilding. We didn't lose enough to constitute that. We're retooling, how about that?
We return our entire RB room. We should have no problem at TE, WR, certainly not OL, and QB of course is the big off season position derby, and we'll see how that goes. Despite the love affair with RL, I don't think it would have mattered and we'd have made the playoff without him. True we lose two NFL DTs, but we soldiered on all season with a depleted DL, and we'll be at full strength to start the season with a near plethora of starting caliber DEs. LB corps is first rate, even without Kizer. And while we do lose Xavier Watts, we've already replaced BenMo, he was replaced mid season by Leonard Moore.
So this is not a rebuild situation. The big thing replacement is Al Golden.
OL, Wr, Rb, Cb, lb, de… Moore was our best corner, he graded out better than benmo did earlier in the season
We don't? Shit did I miss something? I thought they were all underclassmen and they were all returning. I guess that's wrong, we're going to be down to two RBs or something. I thought we were even going to have like, five, with Payne returning, and it would be an embarrassment of riches. Plus the incoming freshman. But no such luck, we're screwed, taking your word for it.
And I just figured like, BenMo's been replaced. Kind of an accounting trick, but nevertheless, we return our two starting CBs, over the last half of the season and all of the playoff run. So I think we can consider BenMo already replaced. Or that we never had him to replace on account of the injury, one of the two.
The best news IMO, is that carr is healing faster than expected and may be full go for spring ball.
I think the coaching staff went so hard at a big time portal QB for this upcoming year because they were concerned with his injury, and don't believe Angeli/Minchey are championship caliber QBs.
I think the coaching staff went so hard at a big time portal QB for this upcoming year because they were concerned with his injury, and don't believe Angeli/Minchey are championship caliber QBs.
We'll likely never really know if Angeli was underused this past season. The Orange Bowl vs Penn State showed that he could move the ball.
According to Golson we absolutely, positively, without a doubt never pursued a portal QB for 2025.
Lol, i know. Pretty funny. In the know people said we went with big offers to Ewers, Milroe, Kade, and one other i forget.
Are you a flat earther person that believes we didn't go after any portal QBs this year?
