Rakes Report: A Notre Dame Podcast

Jamie Uyeyama of Irish Sports Daily joins to review the offense through four games. Discussed: What from the UNC game might work going forward, slow starts under Tommy Rees, how a roster is built, Marcus Freeman's overall philosophy, Tobias Merriweather snaps and much more.

Jessica Smetana joins to discuss Notre Dame's 45-32 victory in Chapel Hill, a fun day of college football (go Blue Raiders) and how we're feeling going into the bye week.

Jessica Smetana joins to discuss the Fighting Irish's 24-17 victory over the Golden Bears.

Our old friend Carter Karels, now covering the Seminoles for the Tallahassee Democrat, stops by to talk about the wild Florida State/LSU opener, how things are going for Brian Kelly in the bayou, his thoughts on Marcus Freeman and the potential of Tyler Buchner.

Jessica Smetana joins to pick the things we're most excited for about this Fighting Irish season, plus bonus fun we're looking forward to from around college football.

Alex Herrmann and Andrew Smith of Notre Dame, Our Blogger join to preview all 12 opponents on this fall's Fighting Irish schedule. 

Jamie Uyeyama of Irish Sports Daily joins to discuss every true freshman on the Notre Dame defense before wrapping with overall thoughts on the  2022 class and where recruiting stands in the first year of Marcus Freeman's tenure.

Jamie Uyeyama of Irish Sports Daily joins to run through every true freshman on the Notre Dame offense. Topics include what to expect from Tobias Merriweather, the continued excellence of the Irish tight end room and the future of the quarterback depth chart.

Jessica Smetana and Bridget Reynolds join to discuss the new Netflix documentary about Manti Te'o.  (We were going to arbitrarily break this into two parts like the documentary but instead are just releasing the supersized version and including a bunch of punctuation in the title. Pause in the middle for that two-part experience!)

Michael Bryan (18 Stripes) and Greg Flammang (Irish Sports Daily and UHND) join to discuss our collective confidence levels in the different Fighting Irish position groups for the upcoming season. 

Ashton Pollard of Blue and Gold stops by to discuss the opening weekend of Notre Dame's August camp. A lot of excitement and question marks surrounding the offense, and mostly just excitement about the defense.

As we approach a new season with a new Notre Dame head coach amid an uncertain future for college football, it's worth considering some big questions: What does it mean to be a fan? What should we want out of sports? Can being a fan make you a better person? Jessica Smetana joins to wrestle these questions with Notre Dame professors Meghan Sullivan (author of "The Good Life Method") and Christine Becker. (This ended up being just about the length of a twice-a-week class, which is fitting. Trying something different with this one, hope you enjoy.)

Jessica Smetana joins to discuss the latest in conference realignment and what it means for the Fighting Irish.

Mike Laskey and Sam Werner join to discuss Blake Wesley becoming the first Notre Dame men's basketball player to be selected in the first round since 2015. Other topics and digressions: Jaden Ivey, Arike, the Sacramento Kings draft history, J.J. Starling, Pat Connaughton, Chris Quinn, Roosevelt Jones, Thomas Walkup.

A travelogue covering the opening days of the 2022 Men's College World Series.

Using the occasion of C.J. Carr's commitment to the Fighting Irish to talk with Ashton Pollard of Blue and Gold about quarterbacks, recruiting, quarterback recruiting and much more.

Our USC Insider Nick Tresnowski joins to talk about the Trojans new coach and new roster, plus some general Pac-12 and Notre Dame chatter.

Jessica Smetana joins to discuss how Kyle Hamilton and Kyren Williams fared in the draft before turning to the latest conversations around Name, Image and Likeness.

After spending the Blue-Gold Game reporting on the sideline for NBC Sports, Caroline Pineda joins to talk about what she saw and heard as Marcus Freeman’s first spring as Notre Dame’s head coach came to a close.  subscribe to the Rakes Report newsletter

Long one today, probably should have just broken this into two but here we are. First, Jamie Uyeyama of Irish Sports Daily talks spring practice and how Notre Dame is working to replace some of its biggest contributors from last season. Then (55:20) Mike Laskey joins to talk about Blake Wesley's NBA decision.