A sense of desperation descends upon Notre Dame Stadium Saturday at the 2017 Notre Dame football Blue & Gold spring game. Head coach Brian Kelly sits firmly on the hot seat after a disaster of a 4-8 campaign and needs to replace a departed starting quarterback and break in a new defense.
In other words: Notre Dame boasts one of this year's most interesting spring games for a handful of noteworthy bad reasons alongside plenty of great ones.
Despite the negatives, the Fighting Irish have key returning players to lean on and continue to slap together one of the better 2018 recruiting classes behind the scenes.