Rakes Report: A Notre Dame Podcast

Irish Sports Daily's Jamie Uyeyama joins to take a deep dive on where Notre Dame football stands at the conclusion of spring practice. What do we feel better about and what questions still remain to be sorted out before the season begins? Topics include QB depth/upside, a potentially dominant front seven, wide receiver improvement, running back reps, questions at corner, offensive tackles and much more. Then a discussion of the series Shogun (1:13:30). (No spoilers to start then they're clearly flagged.) Subscribe to the Rakes Report newsletter here.

Hoops hoops hoops. Supersized episode to get you ready for the tournament and review the first season of Micah Shrewsberry's tenure. Segment 1: Sabreena Merchant (The Athletic) on Notre Dame's chances and what she's most excited for this March. Segment 2 (33:11): Jessica Smetana on storylines to follow, pre-tournament nerves and how the coverage of the women's bracket has evolved. Segment 3 (57:14): Sam Werner (Three-Point Jesus podcast) and Joe Schueller (18 Stripes) on whether expectations were met for Shrewsberry's inaugural season and what the team might look like next season.

The Athletic's Pete Sampson joins to talk about many things including but not limited to Max Bullough, Mike Denbrock, where support for Marcus Freeman stands among both the administration and fans, NIL and transfer portal, a change in approach to strength and conditioning, bowl selection chicanery and the large expectations for 2024. Subscribe to the Rakes Report newsletter here.

Greg Flammang (Irish Sports Daily) and Michael Bryan (18 Stripes) join to talk about early offseason thoughts, 2023 numbers that stand out, what the offense might look like in 2024 and Depth Chart Power Ranking accountability. Then (48:00) a discussion of the Amazon Prime series Reacher.

Jessica Smetana joins to talk about the dominant 40-8 win in El Paso and how to feel about the Fighting Irish program going into the offseason. Donate to the Center for the Homeless in South Bend here.

Donate to the Center for the Homeless in South Bend here. Irish Sports Daily's Jamie Uyeyama stops in to talk about what Duke quarterback Riley Leonard coming to Notre Dame means for the 2024 offense. Other topics include Kris Mitchell, Beaux Collins, Jordan Clark and what we're hoping to see in the bowl game. The Christmas shirt designs are available here, with all proceeds going to the CFH.

Donate to the Center for the Homeless in South Bend here. Inside ND Sports' Eric Hansen joins for a conversation on the confusing Sun Bowl selection process, Marcus Freeman's handling of his coaching staff, signs of transfer portal progress and much much more. The Christmas shirt designs are available here, with all proceeds going to the CFH.

Donate to the Center for the Homeless in South Bend here. The Athletic's Sabreena Merchant joins to talk Hannah Hidalgo, early thoughts on this Notre Dame, where they fit into the ACC hierarchy, Jackie Young being awesome and where the sport of women's hoops sits after a big year.  The Christmas shirt designs are available here, with all proceeds going to the CFH.  

Donate to the Center for the Homeless in South Bend here. Jessica Smetana and Mike Golic, Jr. join to talk about processing 9-3, Sun Bowl memories, transfer portal frenzy, the potential of Riley Leonard, Sam Hartman's legacy and much more. The Christmas shirt designs are available here, with all proceeds going to the CFH.

Donate to the Center for the Homeless in South Bend here. Jessica Smetana joins to talk about the committee finally being put into a tough spot, the ACC's normal bowl selection process, how to approach the early craziness of the Notre Dame offseason and a whole lot more. The Christmas shirt designs are available here, with all proceeds going to the CFH.

Jessica Smetana joins to discuss Notre Dame's 56-23 win over Stanford and early takes on the season as a whole.

Jessica Smetana and 18 Stripes' Michael Bryan join to talk through the state of things after Notre Dame fell to 7-3. What should we want from the final two regular season games, offseason checklist, potential bowls, all of that and much more in an extended therapy session.

Sam Werner joins to break down Notre Dame's 58-7 win over the Pitt Panthers.

Jessica Smetana joins to discuss Notre Dame's massive 48-20 win over the Trojans. (There's a weird vibration in the audio in the first 15 seconds but then it goes away don't worry, truly have no idea what it is. Happy Bye Week.) More from the Rakes Report: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport

Our USC Insider Nick Tresnowski joins to talk Caleb Williams, Alex Grinch, how Trojan fans feel about Lincoln Riley midway through his second year, players to know for Saturday night's primetime clash and much more. More from the Rakes Report: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport

Jessica Smetana joins to discuss Notre Dame's second defeat of the season, as well as offensive coordinator hypotheticals, a brief schadenfreude tour and a consideration of how the fortunes of head coaches are always rising and falling in America. More from the Rakes Report: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport

Jessica Smetana joins to talk about Notre Dame's very normal victory against the Blue Devils. More from the Rakes Report: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport

You're probably going to delete this immediately and that's totally okay but if your misery would like company Jessica Smetana is here to try and talk through things a bit. Note: Jess forgot to mention cell service was very bad on Saturday so if you're going for games maybe plan ahead a little bit for coordinating purposes. More from the Rakes Report: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport

Breaking down the Fighting Irish victory at NC State and the first quarter of the season.

Jessica Smetana joins to discuss the trip to Ireland, a fun Notre Dame victory and what we're looking forward to in Week 1. (This is a loopy one, sorry.) More from the Rakes Report: https://linktr.ee/rakesreport