Notre Dame Football: Official Summer Practices Start Aug. 3, Full Schedule Released

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team will start their summer training camp with Coach Brian Kelly’s noon news conference on Thursday, Aug. 2. Practices will commence the following day at Culver Academies in Culver, Indiana.

Here is the schedule for the camps. All times Eastern:

10:20 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3 at Culver; media permitted
10:20 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug 4 at Culver; media excluded
10:20 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 5 at Culver; media excluded
10:20 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6 at Culver; media excluded
10:20 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7 at Culver; media excluded
10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 8 on campus; media permitted
10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9 on campus; media excluded
10 a.m. to noon. Friday, Aug. 10 on campus; media excluded
10:10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Saturday,Aug. 11 on campus; media permitted
10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 13 on campus; media excluded
10:15 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14 on campus; media excluded
10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15 on campus; media permitted
10 a.m. to noon Thursday, Aug. 16 on campus; media excluded
10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17 on campus; media excluded
3:42 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19 on campus; no end time and media excluded
2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 20 on campus; media excluded
School year starts
4 p.m. to 6:20 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 22 on campus; media excluded
4 p.m. to 6:20 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23 on campus; media excluded
4 p.m. to 6:20 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24 on campus; media excluded
10:10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 25 on campus; media excluded
4 p.m. to 6:20 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27 on campus; media excluded
4:10 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 28 on campus; media excluded, but Kelly will have a news conference at noon.
4 p.m. to 6:20 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 29 on campus; media excluded
4:10 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30 on campus; media excluded, but Kelly will be available post-practice
3:40 p.m. to 4:40 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31 on campus; media excluded
7:42 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1: Ass kicking of Michigan Wolverines commences

Notre Dame invited unnecessary controversy when it released a stringent set of rules on the first day of practice last year.

Some of those rules still remain in 2018, including the program forbidding tweeting, blogging or use of Periscope during practice. Reporters are also required to hold all updates until practice has concluded, although it’s unclear if last year’s “and/or Brian Kelly has met with the media” addendum still applies.

Beat reporters said the rules had some “give and take” in them last year, especially those edicts regarding the description of personnel grouping and depth chart observations. To my knowledge, no one was banned from a practice for anything they wrote on social media or in a subsequent article.