Aside from that 2012 National Championship Game, some are calling this the biggest moment of the Brian Kelly era. Back in August it was announced that Showtime would be taping a weekly doc series titled “A Season With” which would follow around Notre Dame football everywhere they went in the 2015 season. As that news was dropped literally a couple weeks prior to the opener against Texas there wasn’t much time to mull it over. It sent many scrambling to find a subscription for Showtime. Others loved knowing they’d get an extra peek behind closed doors. Others still, worried about the risk of distraction in such an important season. When I heard about this partnership I figured that Notre Dame and Brian Kelly must have been awfully confident Showtime would be taping a great season of Irish football. We’re already given well-filmed “Icon” productions after every game, NBC Sports airs 30-minute “Onward Notre Dame” specials, and now the football program was maxing out with “A Season With.” My analysis of the Showtime announcement. #allin pic.twitter.com/awlnRZKEpR — Eric Murtaugh (@EMurtaughOFD) August 11, 2015 *Note: Unbeknownst to me that tweet triggered a Clemson hashtag and Tiger paw. I swear that paw didn’t show up in the original tweet. I either cursed everything or Clemson football did a wonderful job of trolling. Effectively, the Irish were pushing nearly all their chips into the middle of the table for 2015…
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