With the sad, sad news of the departure of my original co-founder and HLS’ defacto leader of almost 7 years, we take a moment to dedicate a song in his memory. DMQ was a visionary, a leader, and a crabby old man at age 7. Today, he’s so much more. You’ll be missed brother!
Further, HLS is at a crossroads. We’ve hit our highest traffic levels ever this past season, and we’ve been linked everywhere. We are the largest independent NDFB blog in the UNIVERSE, and we can go one of two ways at this point. We can hang out like we’ve been, doing fine, keeping all of you junkies happy, or we can double down. We can go BIG.
I like big, let’s do that.
PART I: What We’re Doing Right Now
With that, HLS is announcing open applications for a few key positions with the site. The list is below, and if you’re interested please email me at herloyalsons at gmail. Here’s what we got – send us your interest, post to message boards, email to friends. We want the best that the ND fan base has to offer! We’re gonna make this thing huge.
Requirements:
-Good writing (ish) for contributors
-Funny (ish) for all content creators
-A serious commitment to creating content regularly (once/week for contributors in-season, 2/month for other content and for contributors off-season)
-Not a dick (ish) for everyone
-That’s it!
You get:
-Inside access to all of HLS’ amazing connections (talk to Poot or Keith Arnold!!!)
-Paid a % of profits (not big yet, but hopefully will be down the line)
-Opportunity o talk about ND and NDFB all the time, non-stop, and have a lot of people listen
-A solid resume builder (pending your perspective, I guess)
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Positions:
–Recruiting Expert – love recruiting? want to talk about it non-stop all the time? great, you’re our man. person.
–GrantlandX – are you an ND student that is either a sophomore or freshmen? Want to be the voice of HLS on campus and give the student perspective? you’re our student, hit us up!
–Webmaster – with DMQ leaving, our tech capabilities are way down. We need someone that can keep us up with the Joneses and help us build a platform that can handle massive, massive traffic. The world is your oyster.
–News Curator – preferably someone on the east coast that can keep our news links up to date and make HLS the one-stop-shop for all NDFB related news. (this could also be the webmaster) We want to be the #1 aggregator of NDFB (and ND news) on the web and this will be your challenge. Gauntlet thrown!
–Forums Czar – interest in and ability to build conversation around ND and NDFB. good community management skills. insatiable appetite for conversation. most likely, no life.
–Photoshop Guy – good sense of humor and some basic skills are all that’s required. You’ll get a platform to share your work regularly. Win win.
–Video Guy – decent editing skills and a love of all things NDFB are all that’s required. You’ll get a platform to share your work regularly. Wins wins.
If any of these sound interesting, please shoot us a quick email with a sample of relevant work. If you know someone that would be great, please pass this along. If you run another blog and want to talk merger, let us know. We are doubling down, folks, and we are going to make this thing big.
PART II: What do you want?
So that’s the plan right now, but I’d also like to hear what you want. What’s missing? What do you need from us? How do we serve the community better? Let us know what you’re thinking and we’ll do our best to deliver. AMEN.
Get. Ready.
GO IRISH!
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Matt Q. (DMQ)
Seriously? Wicked witch? Not even some sort of “riding off into the sunset” tribute?
NDtex
It could’ve been worse. He could’ve gone with Old Yeller.
The Biscuit
That would’ve been sweet. The new HLS isn’t sweet. Mwuhahahahahah.
I had to take a parting shot. After 7 years you’re leaving us!
DOWN WITH BISCUIT
BRING BACK POOT
NDtex
MORE NON-POSTING FOR EVERYONE!
(you asked for it)
trey
Im still really interested to find out what the story was with poot. We never got an explanation and i, for one, am curious. Or is it intrigued?
kyndfan
In the spirit of the free-for-all that this seems to be, I am declaring myself the resident smartass contributor of HLS.
Just think of me as a drive bye contributor. I’ll jump in, throw a bunch of crap against the wall, then sit back and see what sticks. It’ll be huge!
Erik '04
7 responses already and not one of them is serious and to the point of the article, so I guess that makes me the resident UNsmartass contributor who actually takes this stuff too seriously. 🙂
You asked what we’d like to see, and the two things I personally look for are:
1) In-depth analysis of what’s happening on the field. For example, I don’t have time to go back and watch a full replay of the game and zoom in on Aaron Lynch’ footwork during that play where he knocked the QB out of his cleats (hopefully something we see two or three times a game), so I need you guys to use screenshots and other content that demonstrate just exactly how BEAST he actually is.
2) Insider info from people like Tex and Biscuit who have been there and can offer insights into how things were done in the past compared to how they seem to happen today. I was there during the Davingham years, which were clearly different times than the Weis regime and now Kelly. But, since I didn’t even play high school football, I have no idea what goes on inside the program. You all can enlighten me to that regard from time to time.
This ends your regularly scheduled break into reality, please recommence your friendly banter.
kyndfan
Hey I was serious. I’m the ultimate smartass. Maybe that’s why you couldn’t tell it was a serious proposal.
I have tha ability to breakdown gameplans, various techniques, and give a “wtf went wrong there” analogy. I’ve been told by several of my friends that I am the most offensive person they know. Although, I’ve always thought I’m more defensively minded.
The Biscuit
Thanks Erik. We will definitely keep focused on these thongs. The former is Tex’s specialty and I hope we can get more of it in the future.
Trey, the Poot thing was unfortunate, but not something I can comment on. You’d have to ask him, he is on Twitter always, talking abOut video games.
Canadian_Irish
I volunteer to report on all things Irish North of the border…….I’ll take 50% of the profits…..
Canadian_Irish
and if ND ever decides to go all Buffalo Bills and play games at Rogers Centre in Toronto……the party is on me!
lifetimesubwaydomer
I’d love to contribute, thought I sent out an email to you guys about it, but who knows.
lifetimesubwaydomer
if it got to you.
The Biscuit
Yep, we got it!