Friends, the moment is here. At the end of one short weekend, it will officially be a game week for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The normal game-week preview pieces will show up in your OFD feed. The abstract hopes we have placed on the upcoming season since January - for Marcus Freeman, for emerging stars, will be realized - or not - beginning next week.
Irish fans enter 2022 with a level of uncertainty they haven’t seen in many years. While Irish teams of the later Brian Kelly years seemed to have a frustrating ceiling, they also achieved good-to-great status with clockwork efficiency, and there was a high baseline level of achievement fans could expect.