#HLSrecap Top 25: Bowl Game Recap

Mondays are the worst, aren’t they? And by “Monday” I mean “the first day back from vacation”.

Here are your @andrewwinn stats for this week’s #HLSrecap — 319 tweets from 120+ contributors, with 14 first-timers making the cut this week. We now have over 450 unique contributors to at least one #HLSrecap this year.

As you know, each week we present the following highly-coveted (and yet totally arbitrary) accolades:

Brick Helmet Stickers
#HLSrecap MVP
#HLSrecap Top 25

Here now is our Athletic Director, @FakeSwarbrick, who is alternating between orchestrating USC assistant coaching hires and planning Notre Dame Stadium offseason upgrades.

Brick Helmet Stickers

I incorrectly believed that I had handed out my final #BrickHelmetStickers of the year. Luckily for those of you who aspire to more internet glory (and who doesn’t?), you get one more round of these highly coveted imaginary stickers for your imaginary helmets. Go team!

So the Pinstripe Bowl. Yeah. Just like we all hoped for at the beginning of the season, right? Let’s face it – we cash advanced all of our 2013 breaks last season. It was time to pay the football gods back. And we’re never happy anyway so let’s just get on with the stickers.

@PDXIrish – Nina finished strong and managed to remain in #HLSRecapNina mode without being disowned by her grandmother. Nicely done, young lady. You can put your lady boner away now. Please.

@OptimisticDomer – His tweets don’t always live up to his handle, but that handle was a reach for a real Notre Dame fan anyway. This guys gets funnier every week and I hope he plans to tweet during basketball season.

@SupermanTDJesus – Strong. Again.

@thereidy – Here you go, Mike. At long last you finally stepped up your game. Now you can go kick your cat.

@1IrishChocolate – This performance was so strong that I had to break my “you have to follow me to get a sticker” rule. Holy crap I was rolling! Lou….you slay me, man.

#HLSrecap MVP

So fill to me the parting glass…

Now, onto the quantitative measures. This is just as it sounds — whoever has the most number of tweets that make the final cut will be awarded the #HLSrecap MVP Award.

Your winner for the Rutgers game: @1IrishChocolate with 28 tweets.

Your past 2013 #HLSrecap MVPs are as follows:

Stanford: @GoIrishGlory (18)
BYU: @Dixie_Domer (11.5)
Pitt: @PootND (16)
Navy: @Dcare24 (18)
Air Force: @IrishMoonJ (14.5)
Southern Cal: @HLS_NDtex (40)
Arizona State: @FakeSwarbrick (12)
Oklahoma: @SupermanTDJesus (12)
Michigan State: @PDXirish (11)
Purdue: @PDXirish and @HLS_NDtex (16 each)
Michigan: @HLS_NDtex (12)
Temple: @HLS_BayouIrish (9)

Upcoming Programming

Season #HLSrecap stats are provided below, and since everyone wants their own Internet Trophy, we’re going to be hosting the Inaugural HLS Awards Show & Live Google Hangout coming up later this month. Let us know here what date/time works best for you, and you can submit an idea for an award and/or recipient here. Translation: we don’t exactly know what we’re doing, but the range of topics/content/ridicule will be vast. We’ll post more details as the date approaches.

The #HLSrecap offseason has begun. We’ll have #HLSrecapMadness come basketball tournament time, but aside from the Blue-Gold Game and possible Stadium/uniform announcements, pray that this offseason is quieter than the last.

Top Bowl Game #HLSrecap Contributors

Name	Tweets
1IrishChocolate	28
HLS_NDTex	20
OptimisticDomer	16
Irishfootball11	9
oaknd1	9
SupermanTDJesus	9
thereidy	8
tricerapops	8
HLS_podcast	7
PDXIrish	7
mrmayhem75	6
FatherSorin	5.5
IrishElvis	5
ManCaveQB	5
NDEddieMac	5
taxbastard	5
dapremonster	4
Subway_Sprout	4
jdford	4
MaxwellJohn	4

Best 2013 Single-Game Performances

Name	Tweets	Opponent
HLS_NDTex	40	USC
1IrishChocolate	28	Rutgers
SupermanTDJesus	25	USC
GoIrishGlory	22	USC
PDXIrish	21.5	USC
TheSubwayDomer	21	USC
HLS_NDTex	20	Rutgers
andrewwinn	19	USC
OptimisticDomer	18	USC
GoIrishGlory	18	Stanford

Best 2013 Debut Performances

Name	Tweets	Opponents
HLS_BayouIrish	9	Temple
TheSubwayDomer	9	Michigan
IAmSpilly	7	Pittsburgh
IrishFaninMD	7	Stanford
FakeSwarbrick	7	Temple
IrishElvis	7	Temple
awilk	7	USC
thebitting	6	Stanford
celebrityhottub	6	Michigan
thewhiskypoet	6	Michigan

Consistently Good: Most Weeks With 10+ Tweets

Name	Weeks
SupermanTDJesus	7
PootND	6
HLS_NDTex	4
andrewwinn	4
Dixie_Domer	4
PDXIrish	3
FakeSwarbrick	3
GoIrishGlory	3
OptimisticDomer	3
TheSubwayDomer	2
Irishfootball11	2
taxbastard	2
tricerapops	2

Perfect 2013 Attendance

(Scored at least 0.5 each week)

HLS_NDTex
SupermanTDJesus
OptimisticDomer
PDXIrish
Dixie_Domer
IrishElvis
dapremonster
ManCaveQB
Candice4ND

#HLSrecap Top 25

As a reminder, @andrewwinn awards one point for each tweet that makes it in; 1/2 point if someone else retweets/quotes/modifies your tweet and it’s included. The Twitter Ranking Of Leprechaun Legion (T.R.O.L.L.) Scale is awarded arbitrarily.

2013 trolled ND fans enough — no additional T.R.O.L.L. Points assigned this week, so the final #HLSrecap is straight up.

2013 Final Cumulative Rankings

Rank	Name	Tweet Data	T.R.O.L.L. Data	Overall	Previous Rank
1	HLS_NDTex	132.5	-30.5	102	8
2	SupermanTDJesus	117.5	-20	97.5	1
3	OptimisticDomer	96		96	9
4	PDXIrish	94.5	-2	92.5	5
5	PootND	88	+3	91	1
6	Dixie_Domer	90.5		90.5	3
7	andrewwinn	89.5		89.5	3
8	GoIrishGlory	87.5		87.5	6
9	FakeSwarbrick	84		84	7
10	TheSubwayDomer	66.5	+7	73.5	10
11	Irishfootball11	66	+4	70	11
12	oaknd1	66		66	13
13	tricerapops	65		65	13
14	HLS_BayouIrish	60		60	12
15	mrmayhem75	52	+7	59	15
16	IrishMoonJ	54		54	15
17	Dcare24	48		48	17
17	LluckoftheIrish	48		48	17
19	taxbastard	44.5		44.5	21
20	RDIUND	43.5		43.5	20
21	dapremonster	42.5		42.5	22
21	ManCaveQB	42.5		42.5	24
23	IDtheMIKE	41.5		41.5	UR
24	Candice4ND	39		39	23
25	thereidy	38		38	UR