Your dreams of seeing your team win a national title are crushed. Once you process the devastation, you try to look ahead to the future as best you can, knowing that your team is in great shape for the future. Then, the architect of that team decides to interview for another job. Your football world spirals again. The recruits you've been looking forward to seeing next year are trying to process the whirlwind themselves, resulting in some deciding to find greener pastures themselves. This all ...
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Friday Roundup: The “How I Met Your Alma Mater” Edition
Kids, back in 2012 it had been nearly 25 years since the Irish went into a bowl game as the #1 team in the nation. Nearly a quarter of a century had passed since Notre Dame simply needed to win one more game and a national title would be theirs. The last time this happened, I was a little over a month away from celebrating my fourth birthday. All of a sudden, one day I found myself with only three sleeps until I had the chance to watch my alma mater face off against Alabama for the a national ...
Friday Roundup: The “Caring, Crystal Dreams, and Puppets” Edition
This year has been simply fantastic for HLS. Not only did we hit a major milestone not too long ago, but we've been fortunate to have seen some moderate success from a monetary perspective. We actually were able to offer a small payout to the HLS staff, but, being the selfless Domers that they are, requested that the money be pooled together for a donation to charity instead. In the spirit of Christmas, a season of giving, this Roundup will be dedicated not just to HLS giving back, but to ...
Friday Round: The “Manti Te’o: Simply the Best” Edition
Just when I think I've run out of material to praise Manti Te'o, he goes off and makes history. At last night's College Football Award Ceremony, Manti Te'o moved his total post-season award count this year to six, making him the most decorated college football player of all time. The man he passed was Charles Woodson (Bayou's post yesterday was a little prophetic, no?) who won five awards in a single season. Woodson's five includes the Heisman, which Te'o still has a shot at on Saturday. ...
Friday Roundup: The “One Miiiiiiiiiiillion…” Edition
2012 has been a hell of a year for Notre Dame Football (and at this rate, possibly basketball as well) and it's also been a banner year for HLS. Thanks to you, Loyal Readers, for the first time in our history, HLS has broken the one million pageview threshold in a single year. ...
Friday Roundup: The “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” Edition
Notre Dame Football, we need to talk. Let's be honest, the past decade hasn't been kind to me or any Irish fan for that matter. Hell, we could probably go back even further than that, but I'm not going to pretend to have any major Irish memories when my age wasn't even in double digits. The point though, is that you've teased us before. We've seen the undefeated runs and the multiple "return[s] to glory" only to play Charlie Brown while you are Lucy, yanking the football away from us. ...
Friday Roundup: The “One Hell of a Week” Edition
From the last Roundup to now quite a lot has gone down. The #1 team in the nation fell, the QB Flavor of the Week Award Heisman Trophy race got another contender, Kansas State has a QB on the cover of SI, the usual sampling of news that can be found in the Roundup below, we got a new sponsor, our server had some major issues (I'll sleep one of these days), and the Notre Dame campaign is starting to get into full swing. ...
Friday Roundup: The “Different Kind of Hate” Edition
Yes, yes, it’s Notre Dame vs Boston College, the Holy War, the Order of the Holy Cross vs the Jesuits, slapping Fredo across the face, or whatever else you want to call it. We definitely don’t consider BC a true rival by any means; in fact, I wrote about this last season. However, this doesn’t mean that we can’t find it in our hearts to hate them. ...
Friday Roundup: The “Just Win, Baby” Edition
Much of the talk this past week in college football has centered around one central topic. If Alabama, Kansas State, Oregon, and, yes, Notre Dame remain undefeated, who goes to Miami to compete for the national title? Schedules have been compared. Style points tallied. Tea leaves read. Throughout all of the these activities though, one thing must not be forgotten: win. Every. Damn. Game. ...
Friday Roundup: The “OU Mad?” Edition
Tomorrow will mark only the tenth time that the Irish and Oklahoma have met on the gridiron. The last time the two met was in 1999. That game, much like most of the series, ended in an Irish victory. In fact, the Irish are 8-1 all time against the Sooners, including the snapping of OU's record 47 game winning streak in 1957, a streak that included a 40-0 destruction of the Irish. So after a decade away these two teams, now both in the top ten, are set to face off in one of the biggest games ...