In a little over a week, Notre Dame will open training camp at the Culver Military Academy. While most of the headlines will focus on Everett Golson's return, the biggest question mark as the Irish enter the season is the state of Brian VanGorder's defense.

Notre Dame's new defensive coordinator has had 15 practices to work with a young unit that needs to replace Louis Nix III and Stephon Tuitt on the defensive line, Carlo Calabrese, Dan Fox and Prince Shembo at linebacker and captain Bennett Jackson in the secondary.

New NCAA rules allowed VanGorder and his defensive staff t...

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