I’m 30 Today.

“From the point of sensuous experience, the estimate of age is low, melancholy, and skeptical. Frankly face the facts, and see the result. Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Roundup:

• That Lou, always tempering expectations.
• I’d expect a transfer request any moment now.
• He’s down on it, but can he get down with it?
• See a trend here?
• This is the stuff puff-pieces are made of.
• I noticed they didn’t ask us our opinion.

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• Friday Roundup: The Biscuit Edition
• Friday Roundup: The “It’s All About Bob” Edition
• Friday Roundup: The Nothing To See Here Edition

With the 2008 Season quickly approaching, I’ve been subscribing to various blogs and news sources that focus on our 2008 opponents so I’ll be appropriately prepped.

As a result, we now have an updated “Our Opponents’ Latest News” widget to on the right sidebar. We’ve retasked the robots that race around the set of tubes on the internet consuming and processing humans news about our 2007 opponents to consume and process news about our 2008 opponents.

We also have a brand-new widget, the “Opposition Blog Posts.” For this, we’ve commanded the robots to consume and process the latest posts by the best blogs we could find for each of our 2008 opponents. Currently, we’ve tried to just get one blog per opponent, but as we discover other excellent blogs, we’ll let the robots know about them.

For now, our opponents are represented by:

• Fanblogs - San Diego State (We’d love to hear about a better representative blog.)
• Maize ‘n Brew - Michigan (sucks!)
• The Enlightened Spartan - Michigan State
• Purdue - Um, we’re still looking for a Purdue blog that doesn’t bore us to death.
• Stanford - Yeah, nobody at Stanford cares enough to blog, apparently.
• Tarheel Fan - UNC
• Washington Husky Sports - Washington
• Pitt Blather - Pitt
• Eagle in Atlanta - BC
• The Birddog - Navy
• Orange 44 - Syracuse
• Conquest Chronicles - Southern Cal

So that’s a good start. Hopefully we’ll find an actual Stanford blog that actually blogs about football. And maybe, just maybe, we’ll find a Purdue blog that isn’t boring and isn’t hell-bent on using black as their background color.

Also, if you’d like to simply subscribe to the 2008 Opposition Blog Posts feed, you can do so by following this link.

Hopefully you’ll enjoy reading up on these sites. Many of them are more focused on basketball and hockey right now, but as summer begins to heat up, no doubt so too will the football talk. And that’s what we crave the most this time of year. We crave attention intelligent football talk.

If you’ve got suggestions for excellent Opposition Blogs, let us know, and we’ll be sure to add them (if we agree with you. You might have poor taste).

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• HLS Fires Creators of New Coke
• Change is Afoot at HLS as Well
• ESPN: We’ll Hype Anything

Does something feel a little funny today? Do you feel out of sorts? It’s probably your Bracketitis!

It’s not too late to sign up for this year’s bout of HLS Bracketitis. Just click the link below and use the ever-clever password we’ve supplied to join!

http://herloyalsons.mayhem.sportsline.com/e

Password: louholtz

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• HLS Bracketitis: The Recurrence!
• Don’t Forget! The 1st Ever Donna Shalala Liar Of The Week Award!
• UCLA: Racist As All Hell

Knows a things or two about things that end in “itis.”

The HLS March Madness Bracketitis is back! And this time it’s raging!

That’s right friends, it’s the best time of the off-season: A time when something nearly suffices to fully distract our hearts and minds from College Football. The brackets have been announced, and it’s time for you to fill out your picks here for a chance to win… absolutely nothing! But hey, if you win, you can shout out in bars, “I’ve got a raging case of Bracketitis, and HLS done gave it to me!” We just hope that if you win, you’re a girl!

To join the game, click on the link below and use the super-secret, nobody-woulda-ever-guessed password!

Group Link: http://herloyalsons.mayhem.sportsline.com/e

Password: louholtz

Good luck and remember, you may still have a raging case of Bracketitis even without the obvious symptoms!

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• Don’t Forget Your Bracketitis!
• This Reminds Me Of My Entire Life
• Oh Thank God That’s Over

Well, the response to New HLS left a lot to be desired, so we’re going to have the consultants and the engineers go back in their lab and work on the layout a bit more. Still, we do have some changes we really want to get to, like:

• Reader participation in the extraordinarily competitive, but horribly executed Expert Picks
• “Buy me a beer.”
• The HLS Forums
• The HLS Readers’ Top 25

It’s an ambitious set of new features considering we have other jobs that, you know, pay us money, and even India is getting pricey for outsourcing.

Thanks,

Management.

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• Matrix Ranks Wake Forest No. 9, New Coke No. 1
• Seriously, What Leaks?
• Friday Roundup: The Big Misunderstanding Edition

So, unless you have some weird cache issues in your browser, you’re probably noticing that we’ve changed the look of the place.

We’ve been thinking about doing it for a while. We really liked the old look, but when you look at the same thing for a long time, over and over again, you can get sort of sick of it. Or so say most of my ex-girlfriends.

The main drive behind the new layout is that we hope to enable people to find more content more quickly. We also hope to start building some new features to the site, like games and forums in the near future, and this layout will make that easier.

We hope you enjoy!

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• ESPN: Never Again
• A Call For Change
• Time for a Change. Halle-freakin-lujah!!!

vegetables. Nobody really likes vegetables. We will serve beef. USDA Prime beef. Not that un-American Kobe Beef for the wine-swilling Euro-trash set. Grain-fed, hormone-injected beef, just as God intended. Beef that goes along just swell with our All-American Beer. America, F Yeah!

A man who enjoyed the High Life.

The College Football Blog Awards are here!

Get a far better explanation than we could provide of what these are from EDSBS.

Then go here and nominate! We will not suggest who you should nominate. We will say that each of our nominations just happened to include a certain site that sounds a lot like “Fur Oil Guns.” Today we also did a lot of typing of the words “Blue” and “sky” and “Irish” and “table” and “Glory” and “hemorrhoid.”

Whoa. Over-share.

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• It’s An Honor Just To Be Nom… WTF!?
• BREAKING: Lou Holtz To Rejoin Notre Dame as Athletic Administrator
• Fraudriguez Offered Job to Dude that Might Be Racist. Or Might Not. Could Be Though!

UPDATE: Apparently today it’s 2007. Tomorrow it will be 2008. One full year from then, it will be 2009. Thus I’ve edited the title of this post accordingly.

At the risk of looking like I’ve stolen a totally original idea from Hire Jim Essian, I’ve decided to make a few New Year Resolutions for HLS.

Her Loyal Sons resolve to:

• Let you know each and every time we hear about Urban Meyer lying to a recruit, putting feelers out in Atlanta, San Francisco, and New York about NFL jobs, or manipulating “discipline” to make sure none of his really good players ever really miss out on important playing time.
• Win an award. Any award. And if we can’t win an award, then we at HLS will create the Alabama Memorial Award for National Champion Blog and award it to ourselves. Obviously, the trophy for this award will come in the form of “Leg Lamp.”
• Bad Kermit will finish out the Friday Night Lights episode review series that he started a millennium ago. You readers can thank me, domer.mq, for ensuring that this happens.
• Biscuit will shout less in his posts.
• By the start of the 2008 season, domer.mq will complete a new Michigan (sucks!) function on the site so that every time someone writes “Michigan” (sucks!) in a post or a comment, the term “Michigan” (sucks!) will immediately be followed by the term “(sucks!)” thus alleviating the need for posters and commenters to write the term “(sucks!)” every time they write the term “Michigan” (sucks!).
• The HLS Expert Picks will become automated and may, MAY, even become open to our tens of readers. This will result in a more active community around HLS and more time with the wife for domer.mq. Bow-chicka-bow-bow.
• Any of the HLS will punch Mark May in the nose if and when we ever meet him. We will then explain that we fully understand that the constant belittling of ND is just something he does because his producers tell him to do. We’ll explain that, being Christians, we forgive him for being so weak that he’ll just do whatever his bosses want him to do. We’ll then punch him in the nose again.
• We’ll recognize that TheBigLead.com and Deadspin.com have really just become the internet versions of The Best Damned Sports Show Period if The Best Damned Sports Show Period mated with The Man Show and then became a blog.
• We will not take ourselves too seriously even though we’re clearly the best college football blog with a focus on Notre Dame on the entire internet. As with modesty, a sense of humor becomes us.
• We’ll continue to call “Lurch” “Lurch” even if he does transfer from Michigan (sucks!) immediately after their bowl game.
• We’ll lose some weight.

That’s it, really. There’s not much upon which we can improve. When one has essentially maxed out on their potential, what more can be done?

If you’ve got any suggestions, feel free to make them in the comments of this post. In the meantime, let us all give thanks to Rudolph for saving Baby New Year.

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• ND Schedules ASU Minus All Of The Perks…
• Might Want To Read Into This A Bit
• Nation’s Top Running Back is Irish!