Andrew Lamping

Family. Friends. Faith: the 3 most important things in my life. CEO/Founder of @CycloneSocial. Oh and also if you couldn't tell, I Love #NotreDame football

[Notre Dame Recruiting @NDrecruiting01]

“Why’s Notre Dame’s schedule worse than Miami’s. I haven’t heard one person talking about Miami’s SOS”

“You guys would be independent if you could. Just remember that. Every single one of these teams… they would, they can’t” - @Shanemgillis

🎥: TheFilmGuyNetwork

[Andrew Lamping @AndrewLamping]

Out of 125 preseason AP rankings (top 25 the last 5 years) the AP has correctly ranked 2 teams. 2. That’s 1.6% accuracy.
(Correctly = preseason was same as final ranking position)

This is how IDIOTIC preseason and early season rankings are 😂

Let’s just get to the dang season!

[Andrew Lamping @AndrewLamping]

I’ve got two ND/Wisconsin tickets available - corner lower bowl. Face value for ND fans! ($10,000,000 for any other fans…proceeds go to ND NIL)
2 in our group can’t make it anymore.

DM me if you’re interested. Go Irish! ☘️

[Andrew Lamping @AndrewLamping]

There is absolutely no reason there should be preseason polls. Just start the season the way last season ended. Give it a few weeks then start ranking from there. But these polls mean absolutely nothing at this point…

[On3 @On3]

BREAKING: Preseason College Football AP Poll🚨

https://t.co/Uf0sFCnlw2

[Bryan Driskell @CoachD178]

Notre Dame 2026 Season Preview: IB produced a 102 page season preview for the Irish! It's available for IB members only, which makes it the perfect time to sign up. Here's what you'll find:

*** Q&A with Mike Denbrock and Chris Ash
*** Features breaking down star players, players who have to step up, etc.
*** Position by position previews
*** Analysis of where the Irish thrive, and where it must improve using data and evaluations
*** Breakout predictions, X factors and so much more
*** Opponent overviews

https://t.co/I23hEX9BWu

[The Fighting Irish @FightingIrish]

A new home for Fighting Irish Football.

Welcome to Jack and Kathy Shields Family Hall.

#GoIrish☘️

[The Irish Tribune @theirishtribune]

2028 5🌟 EDGE Darieon Prescott (18 Natl. 5 Pos.) has 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐃 to the University of Notre Dame -

He is the third 5-Star EDGE rusher to commit to Notre Dame in three years, and is the second-highest rated recruit in the Marcus Freeman era. He joins Owen Davies and Andre Jones in Notre Dame's 2028 recruiting class.

📸: Darieon Prescott/IG

[Andrew Lamping @AndrewLamping]

…and with that, we are officially on to Football season! #GoIrish

(But the World Cup was fun while it lasted. 🇺🇸⚽️ see you in Morocco in a few years)

[Doug McIntyre @ByDougMcIntyre]

FIFA has cleared the way for U.S. men’s national team forward Folarin Balogun to play in the USA’s round of 16 match against Belgium in Seattle on Monday, multiple sources tell me and ⁦@MelissaMOrtiz⁩ . ⁦@FOXSoccer⁩: https://t.co/Uaw9OE6mqQ

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

BREAKING: Four-Star DL Segun Alexander has Committed to Notre Dame, he tells me for @Rivals

The 6’2 285 DL chose the Fighting Irish over Texas A&M, Clemson, and Vanderbilt

“East End raised me. Notre Dame believed in me. Now it’s time to work.”

https://t.co/iOSWsot7zj

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

BREAKING: Five-Star EDGE Abraham Sesay has Committed to Notre Dame, he tells me for @Rivals

The 6’6 235 EDGE chose the Fighting Irish over LSU, Penn State, and Florida State

“Thank you to all of my loved ones. Nothing but the Lord’s will”

https://t.co/1nUZGKMrov

[David Folorunsho ‘27 🇳🇬 @DavidFolorunsh0]

IRISH SPRING GREEN GREEN ☘️☘️☘️

[Bryan Driskell @CoachD178]

You want an explanation? I'll do this thing that people call research and make an argument based on data and not feelings.

So what's the value?

There is plenty of value to anyone who is being objective and not trying to write a hit piece. For example, you brought up North Carolina and their ticket sales .... that was a beautiful example of cherry picking data to support a preconceived viewpoint instead of actually making a real argument.

You can cherry pick UNC, how about cherry picking Pittsburgh?

Their average attendance for ACC home games the last three seasons is 49,947 with only three games over 50K. The most is 58,667 (Clemson, 2024).

Attendance for the Notre Dame game? 68,400.

Attendance for the Miami game two weeks later? 49,845.

How about Georgia Tech in 2024. Average attendance is 39,745 with a high of 47,358. Attendance for Notre Dame game? 59,021

Duke in 2023. Average attendance was 24,847. Duke vs Clemson game was 31,638. Attendance for the ND game? 40,768.

Same year, Louisville. Average attendance was 48,797. Attendance for the ND game? 59,081

You could write this story for the vast majority of ND vs ACC games. Since ND joined, ACC teams sellout 23% of their games. They sell out for 90% of the ND games.

Now, if you actually want to do your job and learn things, go look at the ticket prices for those games when Notre Dame is in town. Specifically, go look at what tickets were going for when Pitt played Notre Dame compared to when Pitt played Miami. So it's not just about "selling out" or "average attendance," the overall revenue increases far greater because Notre Dame games are almost always considered premium or marquee games.

Actually, I'll make it easier for you. I'll show current ticket prices for ND vs UNC, Louisville vs UNC, and NC State vs UNC. Do some math, even if each game is solid out, you really think they are making even close to the same revenue in those games? Anyone trying to tell the real story would have discussed this. By not doing so it comes across as pure spin.

Let's go look at TV numbers in ACC vs ACC games and then go look at the numbers in ACC vs Notre Dame games.

Miami was the ACC's most viewed team in the regular season by over 7 million. 29% of their total RS views were the ND game.

How about common opponents?

Pitt
vs. ND - 3.96M
vs. UM - 2.22M

Syracuse
vs. ND - 1.89M
vs. UM - 1.20M

Stanford
vs. ND - 1.52M (despite 10:00 PM kickoff)
vs. UM - 1.21M

How about common leagues? Both teams played a really good American team.

ND vs Navy - 3.4M
UM vs USF - 740K

Go ask ACC coaches why they always schedule their big recruiting weekends when they host Notre Dame. Go ask ACC coaches why they use getting to play Notre Dame as a pitch with recruits.

Finally, I'll use your own words. You wrote this:

"Notre Dame could solve the ACC’s possibly existential crisis in an instant. All that is necessary to ensure the future of the league is for the Irish to join as a full member, possibly even while dictating some of the terms it would prefer, such as retention of its lucrative TV contract for home football games."

So you're telling me that the best path forward for a dying league is to alienate a team that could solve it's problems?

[Bryan Driskell @CoachD178]

Notre Dame's record in the playoff in the 12-team playoff:

3-1 - beat the SEC champs by 13

SEC in the 12-team playoff:

5-8

SEC record against non-SEC P4 teams:

2-6 - losses by 35, 25, 14, 13, 7 and 4 points

SEC record against teams from Indiana in the 12-team playoff:

0-2 - losses by 35 and 13 points

[Bryan Driskell @CoachD178]

In the last 3 years there is ONLY ONE coordinator to have two Top 5 scoring offenses and two Top 5 yards per play offenses.

Mike Denbrock

That's it, that's the list.

[Notre Dame Football @NDFootball]

History is forged at Notre Dame.

#GoIrish☘️ | #NFLDraft

[Andrew Lamping @AndrewLamping]

This is awesome! 👏 “We’ve got class”

[Tyler Horka @tbhorka]

Nick Saban: “They always tell me how hard I was to work for. We never had a meeting at 6:45 (a.m.) in the middle of the draft, OK? C’mon.”

Marcus Freeman: “We got class. We got to go to class. I got to get them out of there so they can go to class.”

The Notre Dame difference.

[Andrew Lamping @AndrewLamping]

#letsgokomets 🙌

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

Hannah Hidalgo looking like the Jumpman logo 🏀

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

HANNAH HIDALGO IS HER 🔥

She's only the second women's player EVER (Caitlin Clark) to record a 30-point triple-double in NCAA tournament history 😱