Chris Ash hasn't spent the summer doing all that much recruiting. Instead, he's been "self scouting" and getting to know the players that will make up the Notre Dame football defense.
He's also been making subtle changes to the way the Fighting Irish take the field. Especially on the defensive line. Among those subtle changes is that the Golden Domers won't have a strong side and weak side defensive end. It will simply be the right and left ends. However, the changes are more than just what they call each end.
Ash’s left-right end shift aims to turbo-charge Notre Dame football front seven
"There are a lot of factors that play into that," the Notre Dame football team's defensive coordinator recently explained.