The Notre Dame Football season is finally winding down to its conclusion, meaning that Irish Blogger Gatherings are also coming to an end quite soon this year. Let's finish this sucker strong. As a reminder, all members of the IBG will send a single question and we will all answer of them on our sites, with the exception of our own query. So be sure to visit all the other IBG members to see their answers throughout the day. My Question: BYU and Stanford are somewhat similar ...
Her Loyal Podcast – Episode 6
The latest episode of Her Loyal Podcast hosted by The Irish Twins is now live! After a week off, it's time to break down BYU and take a look forward to Stanford. Oh, and you should now be able to find the HLS Podcast on iTunes by searching for "Her Loyal Podcast"! It takes a few hours for iTunes to update it's feed so you can check out the episode now in the below embedded player or later when iTunes pushes it into their feed. Either way, enjoy! ...
The Holidays Are Coming — Your Shopping Can Support HLS
Thanksgiving is nearly here meaning not just Christmas will soon be around the corner, but the other consumer "holidays" known as Black Friday and Cyber Monday will be more immediately upon us all. If you're like me, you laugh at people tramping over each other at brick and mortar stores and simply do your shopping online instead. My favorite one-stop shop, like most people these days is Amazon. You've likely seen some Amazon banners, ads, and links in the past here on HLS (and occasionally ...
Can We Please Stop Using Stats Like These?
Excuse the mini-rant, but I just can't help it. Look, I love stats, they are great for determining trends and trying to dive deeper into games and a season. But can we stop using ones like this? https://twitter.com/BGI_DanMurphy/status/404980582074941440 I got nothing against BGI or ND Rivals or any of their reporters who do solid work, but this kind of stat is beyond worthless. No, I'm not saying this because it breaks my narrative/agenda or anything other ridiculous claim. There are ...
Notre Dame/BYU Gameday Conversation
I hope your livers enjoyed the week off because it's time for Notre Dame football. No Spotify playlist this week for two reasons: Didn't really have to time to make one I think our record when I make one is pretty awful So yeah, we'll just stick with the Twitter reindeer games. As always, you can follow an unfiltered version of the #HLSRecap Top 25 below and use the #NDFB widget below that to join the conversation. Let's do this. Congrats to the seniors. Go Irish. Beat ...
Friday Roundup: The “2013 Needs to End” Edition
You know, there are "ow, my balls" moments associated with Notre Dame football and then there is what is happening this year. Ever since the calendar turned to 2013, it's been one disaster after another. I really don't have adequate words to describe it, so I'll let the Big Lebowski do it for me: http://youtu.be/P7lGGhHZSZs After each disaster, we try to be The Dude, but when everything keeps snowballing we end up being the other Lebowski. And who can blame us? Let's just recap the mess ...
Reviewing Our Own – Echoes in the Endzone: The Men We Became
We are still working on getting all the Subway Domer staff fully signed up and integrated with our site, but Steve in Iowa wanted to get a book review up. And his first review at HLS will focus on our loyal daughter, Lisa Kelly. Yes, we are reviewing one of our own AND THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS AT ALL. Take it away Steve! Echoes from the Endzone: The Men We Became, by Lisa Kelly Reviewed by @SteveinIowa1 A few years ago I was talking Notre Dame stuff with a dear friend who happens ...
Notre Dame Offense: Checking the Balance
As I wrote yesterday's piece on Tommy Rees, I couldn't help but dive into some numbers. I felt that another unfair criticism of Rees is the claim that he audibles out of running plays far too often. The corollary of course is that Brian Kelly puts Notre Dame in a position to fail by putting far too much on the shoulders of Rees as well. AKA, the "RUN THE DAMN BALL!" argument. Of course, deciding to check out some stats led me into a rabbit hole that started at Tommy Rees and led me to ...
Thankless Tommy
When Tommy Rees takes his final run out of the tunnel in Notre Dame Stadium, he will surely be met with a mixed reaction. While I am certain boos won't be audible (and if you are planning to do so, please give away your ticket and never return), the fact remains that opinions and feelings on Tommy vary greatly. To me, there are three distinct groups. The first, and smallest, are those that simply love Tommy and think that the starting job was always his. The second, and unfortunately at times ...
Friday Roundup: The “Taking a Bye Week” Edition
Usually, the Roundup never takes a bye week, but this time it must. Sadly, my day job being incredibly busy, plus family being in town took up far too much time this week. Add on to the fact that I don't have an opponent to make fun of this weekend and I'm bringing a big bag of nothing to the Roundup table this week. Instead, we'll just throw out the usual links, pick some games, and suggest some booze and enjoy a relaxing weekend in which Notre Dame football won't drive us crazy. I'll ...