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      <title>Backup Brigade</title>
      <description>Who are Notre Dame's best players for 2013 yet to start a game? We have them broken down by category. 

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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Position Rankings: 4-6</title>
      <description>O'Malley ranks each of Notre Dame's 25 official positions (special teams count, too), on the basis of each's starter strength, proven depth, and lastly, its potential. In a departure from the norm, we begin at the top...
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      <title>More Musings: The Returnees</title>
      <description>O'Malley's Stream of Consciousness notes on all 83 scholarship Irish finds a common theme in today's edition…</description>
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      <title>Spring Wrap: Tight Ends</title>
      <description>Our third position review of spring ball looks at Notre Dame's tight end quartet, a group that will add another four-star prospect this summer with incoming pledge Durham Smythe. In this edition of our "Incomplete" series, O'Malley offers who stood out, who needs work, and what questions remain entering the summer. 

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      <title>Monday Morning Briefing</title>
      <description>Today's blog examines Notre Dame's level jumpers: players that elevated their status thanks to consistent work in winter conditioning and a productive spring thereafter. 
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      <description>O'Malley's list of 25 players, positions, and past memories to prepare you for Saturday's 84th annual Blue Gold Game. 
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Notre Dame's spring session is 60 percent complete. Irisheyes.com offers a quick breakdown, position-by-position, of key developments to date. 

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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Twelfth Man</title>
      <description>Notre Dame's most oft-used offensive package last season involved two tight ends. A quartet of competitors are battling this spring to again make that the case for 2013. 
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Monday Morning Briefing</title>
      <description>A verbal pledge, two injury concerns, names of note through three spring practices, and an annual mid-March whimper on the hardwood are among topics touched on in today's Monday Morning Briefing.

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      <title>Walking Wounded on the Move, Mend</title>
      <description>Our first spring notebook reviews 10 Notre Dame players returning from off-season or 2012 season surgeries. Each appears ready to compete this spring, or is in position to participate and return to a starting role next August.
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      <title>Lather, Rinse, Repeat?</title>
      <description>Tyler Eifert's graduation marks the fourth straight starting tight end the Notre Dame football program helped develop into an NFL player. Now a nearly uninterrupted 40-season string of producing pro talent begins its fifth decade, headed by junior Troy Niklas and a host of others for spring ball 2013. 
 
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      <title>In Case You Missed It...</title>
      <description>Most Irisheyes.com subscribers follow depth charts and personnel movement with a passion. But for some Irish fans, football season starts Saturday. This column, and its defensive counterpart to follow, is for you.</description>
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      <title>The Offense</title>
      <description>Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly discusses running back depth, communication with his new offensive coordinator, injuries up front, and DaVaris Daniels' maturation of late. 

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      <title>The 12th Men?</title>
      <description>Backup tight ends Troy Niklas and Ben Koyack won't supplant All-America Tyler Eifert in the Irish starting lineup this fall. But one of them might join him…
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      <title>Kelly, Irish get away before big week</title>
      <description>Brian Kelly spoke with the media today following his team's ninth practice session of August camp.</description>
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      <title>Roster Rundown</title>
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Our new weekly feature looks at every 2012 Irish player, at present one-third of the way through August camp.
 
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      <title>Practice Report: Part I</title>
      <description>Today's two-hour practice was open to the media and as a result, our practice report will be broken into several parts. Our first feature includes several roster items as well as a review of the always popular, "Irish Eyes" drill between blockers, tacklers, and a lone running back. 
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      <title>A Deeper Impact?</title>
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Starting tight end Tyler Eifert was outstanding in 2011. Can his cohorts at the position answer the bell and provide the Irish a true two tight end attack in 2012? Can Eifert improve upon his record-setting season? Those topics and more are discussed in Part III of our Player Improvement series.
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