A Notre Dame Football Blog
Fortunately for Shane (SupermanTDJesus), he is out of the main path of Hurricane Matthew thanks to it's new northern trajectory. Many others on the east coast, however, will not be as lucky. All of us here at HLS certainly hope and pray that everyone remains safe this week and, if needed, gets the hell out of dodge. Matthew has already affected parts of this college football weekend. LSU and Florida have seen their game cancelled (ignore the early brain-fart at the start of the show putting ...
For those Loyal Readers that are familiar with my work, y'all know that I have a true love of stats when it comes to my analysis of football. This passion embedded itself in my being because (1) I have a brain that God made for engineering purposes and (2) I grew up with a love for the game of baseball--the stat nerd's dream sport. Football is a rough sport to analyze through the magic of spreadsheets. With short seasons and smaller sample sizes than a sport like baseball, you truly have to ...
So what do you do as a podcast when you need to preview a game against a terrible opponent after a terrible loss? Well, Shane and I decided to bring you you the most incredible, hard-hitting, most in-depth preview for Duke possible. If you thought that last sentence was truthful, you are going to be very disappointed. ...
When I came back from my podcast break, I said that the main goal of the show is simple: having fun and creating an entertaining show. When I go back and listen to what I've done so far and, quite frankly, while recording, I feel like the times I'm missing that simple goal is when I'm just talking to...well, no one. So with that in mind, I decided that there was a need for a co-host on the show. Shane, aka SuperManTDJesus, aka the one that brings you awesome videos here on HLS, had mentioned ...
Week one in college football was not so great as a Notre Dame fan. The insanity that was watching multiple ranked teams faceplant quickly subsided after the Irish fell to Texas on Sunday night. Look, I know that there is a 24 hour celebration/mourning period, but that timeline doesn't apply for semi-retired-bloggers-that-like-to-still-podcast-even-when-they-are-on-vacation. At least, that's the story that I'm going with here. In all honesty, the Sunday night kickoff is the bigger culprit ...
Loyal readers and listeners, we made it through another long annual slog that is the college football offseason. College football is here, our first football Saturday is around the corner and Notre Dame will kickoff the evening after. Actual. Football! And here at HLS, we will be able to do so in a new home as my long-awaited redesign is finally complete. I'll still be tinkering here and there with some features as this is by no means complete; however, the meat and potatoes is all on your ...
Yes, I am indeed back and ready to get into this podcasting thing. If you can believe it, this episode is the 100th posting on our podcast feed. With that in mind, I take a little bit of a look on how I'd like this little endeavor to run going forward. Of course, there is some good ND football talking as well. Not too much in my news roundup this week, but I got to kick off the rust somehow. Enjoy. The Roundup In this episode: I wasn't joking about ping pong at Texas being a thing. A ...
We have finally arrived at the saddest part of the season: the end. This episode of the Friday Roundup takes a look at the final football game of the year and how Alabama, with a little help from their special teams, topped Clemson for yet another national title. Of course, I can't bury the season until I say a few words on Notre Dame. I think this offseason has the potential to be one of the more interesting and exciting ones in some time (for the right reasons this time) and I rattle off a ...
Sadly, we are at that annual sad, dark time in which we begin to prepare ourselves for the end of another college football season. With just one more game left, NDEddieMac and I close out our picks, but not before saying farewell to the early Notre Dame departures, talking a bit of Fiesta Bowl, as well as the rest of the bowl season. I also hold myself accountable to my keys for ND victory and grade out how the Irish did in each of the three phases (spoiler: not great, Bob). I apologize in ...
Welcome to 2006 2016! It's gameday and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have a chance to kick off the new year by beating the defending national champions, the Ohio State Buckeyes, in the Fiesta Bowl. Because I have no earthly idea when the Friday Roundup will actually land on an Irish gameday again, this entire episode is devoted to a Fiesta Bowl preview. So prepare for the game with my take on the Buckeyes, which players with dumb helmet stickers to keep your eye on, and how the underdog Irish ...