There are so many holes and only so many fingers! Hey, hey, what can I say? ...
IBG Pre-Season: NDTex is so metal!
Voracious ND Twitterer and multi-faceted blogger NDTex has posted his answers to my questions, and they involve declaring that ND Football is trying to kill him at least 10 times. A bit paranoid, Tex? ...
IBG: NDFB2011 doesn’t know about Vanilla Ice
One of the newest blogs on the ND circuit is first to reply to our pre-season IBG queries! Dun dun dun dududundun... Dun dun dun dududududunn! ...
Irish Blogger Gathering: This Is The Only Way We Ever Get To Pre-Party Anymore
I just got done with a run this evening, and for the first time in months, the air wasn't trying to kill me. It wasn't 95 degrees after sunset. It wasn't 45000% humidity. And there wasn't the smell of dead... something... emanating from the nearby metro stop. To me, that signified a shift, and it got me thinking about a lot of coming shifts. There's the shift in seasons, as we turn the corner in August from sweltering heat to probably more sweltering heat with a dose of hope for relief in ...
HLS Top 25 Roulette: #20 Texas
We're already getting to the "interesting conundrum" part of this mental exercise. The way I saw it, I was stuck with either picking an "edge" team and putting them at 20 (Texas) or picking the Auburn Tigers. And frankly, until I get more data of what the Tigers look like without Cam Newton, I don't want them anywhere near my top 20. So if the Tigers show up anywhere after this ranking, that's on Biscuit or Poot. Meanwhile, we're left placing a recently 5-7 Longhorn squad right at #20. A bit ...
HLS Top 25 Roulette: #23 South Carolina
So let me get this straight, the vaunted SEC - already over-valued in ways not seen since the stock market of a week ago - is supposed to be up for grabs this season, and one of the teams expected to do a lot of grabbing is South Carolina? The same South Carolina that wakes up every morning wondering if its presumed starting QB is in the clink for yet another drinking-related arrest? The same South Carolina that went 9-5 last year? Oh, excuse me, I'm supposed to jump in here and point out that ...
The Inaugural HLS Top 25 Roulette
We've had such a darn good time defending our Top 25 Irish Players over the last couple of weeks, we thought it would be even more fun to defend ourselves from... ourselves. In another Top 25. This time, a pre-season Top 25 College Football Teams. This time, however, rather than leaving myself and myself alone up for near-daily bombardments of virtually rotten tomatoes for my own picks, the "regular" staff of HLS will be teaming up and squaring off in a rather unusual format for a Top 25 ...
An Opportunity Missed: The Reinstatement of Michael Floyd
As the entire Notre Dame fanbase knows by now, Michael Floyd was reinstated with the Notre Dame football team today. And depending on the lens through which you view this news, that may or may not be a good thing. If, like some - mostly Notre Dame fans - you choose to see this as the culmination of a process (a very real process, from what we've heard) that may have helped Floyd mature and improve upon his decision making, it's a relatively good bit of news. And that's valid, but it would also ...
Let Me Explain: My Top-25 Irish Players Sans Crist
Yeah. So, let's use this post to try to calm the masses a bit. I've been rather astonished at the response I got for not including Dayne Crist in my rankings of the Top 25 Irish Players on the 2011 Roster, hosted by Keith at Inside the Irish. Not only have there been flumoxed responses to my ranking decision in completely unrelated posts, but I've received tweets, e-mail, and even text messages expressing either mild outrage or apocalyptic bafflement (that would be a great name for a college ...
So, uh, yeah… The Ads are Back.
Looooooooong time readers will recall that we had some ads before. We've got them again. And believe me, despite the recent addition of Poot to the team, we're not going to be raking in enough money to even buy a decent haircut every month (Biscuit likes those high-priced salons in LA). But we will, over the next few weeks, be experimenting with ads, trying to find the right balance between obnoxious and revenue-generating. Please be patient. We really appreciate it. We'll figure it out, and ...