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Things People Forget About Notre Dame Football: Schematic Madness

With fall camp on the horizon for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, it’s time to start talking about X’s and O’s. Past coaches have provided some blueprints that are successful, some that were failures, and some that were just plain bizarre. You know we’re talking about the last of those today, so let’s get into it. People forget...

The Leprecat

The wildcat formation took the football world by storm in the late 2000s after Darren McFadden and the Arkansas Razorbacks used it to set the SEC on fire. Anyone who was anyone in the world of offensive schematics was thinking up how to use it, and Charlie Weis certainly considered himself someone.