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09/07/2017 by PeekYou Team

Ex-Notre Dame Football Player Says School Hid MRI Results From Him, Which Led To A Chronic Spinal Injury

Author: Patrick Redford / Source: Deadspin

Last Friday, former Notre Dame linebacker Douglas Randolph filed a lawsuit against Notre Dame, Brian Kelly, head Notre Dame football trainer Rob Hunt, and a handful of doctors, alleging that the Notre Dame football and training staff deliberately concealed a serious spinal injury from him, which he played with and eventually saddled him with a chronic injury after he was declared medically ineligible. The Indianapolis Star first reported on the lawsuit, and a copy of the complaint can be found below. More

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11/27/2016 by PeekYou Team

Brian Kelly says ‘everything is on the table’ after 4-8 season

Source: ESPN.com

LOS ANGELES — Despite finishing with the school’s worst record in nearly a decade, Brian Kelly said he expects to be back as Notre Dame‘s head coach next season.

“Oh yeah, absolutely,” Kelly said. “There was some discussion as to why I’m coming back [to campus] early, and I don’t believe I’m coming back early because I’m getting fired. [Notre Dame athletic director] Jack [Swarbrick] and I always meet at the end of the year, and I wanted to do some exit interviews with our players because I hadn’t been able to do that.

“I always stay on the West Coast for the week and then we get into bowl practice, but obviously, we don’t have bowl practice, and then they get into exams, so I’m going to use next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to do exit interviews so I can spend a little time and get feedback from our players in terms of some of the things we may need to adjust within our program.”

Notre Dame wrapped up a 4-8 regular season with a 45-27 loss to USC on Saturday. It was the Fighting Irish’s worst regular season since going 3-9 under Charlie Weis in 2007, and Kelly’s worst season since his first year at Central Michigan in 2004.

Kelly said he understands the talk about his job status after a subpar season despite leading his teams to bowl games in the 11 previous seasons.

“When you’ve been in this business a long time, you think you’ve got a track record of what you’ve done, but you’re also at a high-profile institution like Notre Dame, where the expectations are really high,” Kelly said. “You’re going to have to answer those questions when you have a year like this. One side of you says, ‘Look, this is my 25th year, I know what I’m doing,’ but the other side of you understands you can’t be surprised when you go 4-8. You’re going to get those questions asked.”

Kelly didn’t rule out making changes to his coaching staff in the…

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11/26/2016 by PeekYou Team

Five things we learned: USC 45, Notre Dame 27

Author: Keith Arnold / Source: Inside the Irish

LOS ANGELES — The end is here. And it looked, for the most part, like the rest of it.

Notre Dame’s 45-27 loss shared all too many similarities with their other seven defeats. Special teams blunders. A devastating stretch before halftime that altered the game’s outcome. And a mostly gutty effort that ended with the Irish losing because they gave away much more than they took.

The Irish showed plenty of fight on Saturday. Unfortunately, they showed just as much charity. Two special teams touchdowns for Adoree Jackson. A DeShone Kizer gift-wrapped pick six. Add them together and three scores were just too many to spot the hottest football team in the country.

The Irish end their season with four wins. They leave behind many more unanswered questions. Let’s find out what we learned.

Adoree Jackson against Notre Dame’s special teams was an unfair fight.

Notre Dame knew Adoree Jackson was one of the country’s most dangerous return men. They kicked to him anyway.

Jackson’s 55-yard punt return and 97-yard kickoff return were two more touchdowns given up by Scott Booker’s special teams, a fitting end to a nightmarish season where the five return scores allowed only covered a fraction of the damage done.

On a day where the Irish special teams needed to be clean, they were anything but. And when Jackson picked up a bouncing punt and sprinted to the end zone, he turned a field goal-game into a 10-pointer. And when Jackson answered his coverage blunder with a hurdling, highlight reel return touchdown, he all but ended the game.

“Unfortunately today, special teams was a huge deciding factor in the game and we gave up two touchdowns there to a very talented player,” Kelly said postgame. “But we knew how talented he was going into the game.”

That talent presented omnipresent problems, the Irish unwilling to kick away from Jackson when they knew playmakers like Ronald Jones and JuJu Smith-Schuster awaited. And with Jackson’s lone catch going 52-yards for a touchdown, the All-American candidate left Irish defenders grasping at air as the all-purpose weapon scored three times—with Irish fans hoping they’ve seen Jackson for the last time with a stay-or-go decision coming soon.

(Speaking of those…)

DeShone Kizer may well be a high first-round draft pick. But before he makes his final decision, he’d be wise to look at all the information on hand.

DeShone Kizer hasn’t made any decisions. That was the message from the quarterback after he faced a swarm of tape recorders, all hoping to get something from a football player far too smart to offer anything.

But if this is indeed it for Kizer, he’ll leave a resume far less convincing than the one he had entering the season. As NFL teams looks for a quarterback to change the future of their franchise, Kizer will need to prove that the player showing up on tape is the real deal, not a signal-caller who regressed in his second season as a starter.

Kizer’s final Saturday of the season was another mixed bag. His 17 completions included some throws that’ll make football men nod with approval. But his 15 misses included some head-shakers, none more confounding than Ajene Harris‘s interception, the throw into coverage breaking Notre Dame’s back.

Kizer’s receiving corps was undermanned, with Corey Holmes struggling in a featured role and Chris Finke supplying most of the playmaking. Add in challenging weather conditions, and it was difficult to tell if Kizer struggled or merely fought an uphill fight.

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11/22/2016 by PeekYou Team

Notre Dame football must vacate wins for violations by student-trainer

Author: USA TODAY Sports / Source: USA TODAY

Notre Dame will be forced to vacate victories in the 2012 and 2013 football season due to NCAA violations by a student-trainer.

The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions panel ruled the trainer violated NCAA ethical conduct rules when she committed academic misconduct for two football players and provided six other players with impermissible academic extra benefits.

Notre Dame was 12-1 in 2012, including an appearance in the BCS championship game against Alabama. In 2013, the Irish finished 9-4. The school must…

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