Notre Dame Fighting Irish News: New football facility, new portal guard, more

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish got their first very talented transfer from the portal on Wednesday as they added a veteran guard who could be quite the compliment to Markus Burton in the 2024-25 season.

Matt Allocco comes to South Bend by way of a Princeton team that won the Ivy League’s regular season with a 12-2 conference mark and a 24-5 overall record. He was a key cog on that team as he posted a career best 12.7 points and 3.3 assists per game, while adding 2.9 rebounds per contest.

Allocco was a deadeye this past season as he shot 50.8 percent overall (126-248) from the field, 42.7 percent from 3-point range (47-110) and 90.9 percent from the free throw line (70-77). That made him the only 50/40/90 guy in the country who had significant playing time.

For a Notre Dame Fighting Irish squad that played better down the stretch, but still struggled mightily on offense, Allocco is a big pickup.

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Two decades after breaking ground on its Guglielmino Athletics Complex and five years after unveiling one of the most best indoor football facilities in the entire sport, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are getting ready to start construction on a nine-figure, state-of-the-art all-encompassing football facility.

The plan appears to be set to get revealed just before kick off of the Blue-Gold game this Saturday.

FootballScoop has sources telling it that, "It's a full football facility that's going to have everything except the indoor, which we just (recently) opened."

What a difference a year makes. Last season, the Notre Dame Football team's biggest weakness was its WR room. Ths year, thanks to talented freshman, some development by young players from the 2023 season and a gaggle of transfer players, College Football Report has Notre Dame among the most talented wide receiver groups in the country.

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team had an interesting visitor to practice on Thursday. Micah Shrewsberry came on down to check out what Marcus Freeman is doing to get ready for the end of spring practice.

While not directly related to Notre Dame, many in South Bend are familiar with Gregg Doyel. On Wednesday, he made a complete joke of himself while welcoming Caitlin Clark to the Indiana Fever. Watch the exchange above.

While we sit and wait for Deuce Knight to officially sign with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, 247's Eric Thomas had a nice writeup that delves deep into the makeup of the highly-touted commit.