A Notre Dame Football Blog
The Irish are 8-0 with an excellent chance to enter Southern California undefeated at the end of the month. That is a beautiful, beautiful thing. Of course, as Keith Arnold of Inside the Irish and I discussed during this week's Irish Blogger Gathering, to do that the Irish must avoid following the paths of the 2002 and 1993 Irish squads. Below are my questions for Keith and his responses. You can find Keith's questions and my answers on Inside the Irish later this afternoon. Don't forget to ...
I always like a good party, soiree, or get-together. So I was very excited when I was invited to this Gathering. Then I learned it was a test – not a figurative trick or trial, but literally a test in which I had to answer questions. I guess this is how it’s done these days. Lure students with the promise of something fun (like a week off school) and then hit them with the something truly sinister (like midterm exams). Fortunately, the subject of the test was a particular favorite of ...
It's the midpoint of the season, the Irish are 6-0 and the Notre Dame defense has managed to throw the Heisman discussion for a loop by elevating Manti Te'o into the mix. There's a lot to be very positive about, but there are also some burning questions, especially when it comes to the offense. This week, I posed some of these questions and accolades to the Subway Domer. His answers, as only he can give them, are below and you can catch my responses to his five questions (being the godfather ...
If you were to bet on how many Stanford fans would be at GameDay on Saturday, would you go with more than or fewer than 75? My money is on fewer, which will hopefully help to erase some of the memory of the Nebraska fan flood of 2000. I am excited to see a sea of Irish fans in front of Touchdown Jesus, and especially pumped to see the clever quips that students put on their signs (particularly from the people that manage to sneak the really good ones past the ESPN police). This week, for the ...
Time for some fun; instead of bantering with, you know, this same old HLS team like every other day, I get to bug Josh Flynt, the official sports blogger for the University of Notre Dame. Here's what he had to say going into the Shamrock Series. Also, I allowed NBC's Keith Arnold to pick my brain. 1. After Miami's struggle vs Boston College in Week 1 (followed up by Kansas State dismantling them), many Irish fans wrote off the Hurricanes.While they haven't had any particular impressive ...
I've been kind of quiet on the site this week. Lots of travel for work. Lots of babies (ok one) that are sick. Lots of wives (okay one) with Strep. Lots of lots going on. But don't you think that, for even one second, the seething ball of hellacious fire of hate burning inside me hasn't been raging with the hateful power of a thousand suns since the SECOND the MSU game ended and we officially started Hate Week. I haaaaaaaaaaate the Skunkbears! Tried to kill our program. Misguided ...
It's been a long time since The Irish were 2-0 and all was right under the Golden Dome. Ha. Personally, I've never seen such anxiety during a win (against Purdue last Saturday) and the amount of nervous ink spilled after a loss was unprecedented. And yet. And yet, Notre Dame rose to 20 in the AP Poll and they are set to play Michigan State in East Lansing in PRIME TIME. So, what's it mean and how should you be betting your mortgage payment? This week, The Subway Domer met me at Lafitte's ...
This time last year, the members of the IBG were beside themselves, trying desperately to find silver lining against the disaster that was the turnover-laden USF game. This year, the IBG marches into week 2 with a 40-point victory and loads of confidence heading into Purdue. We are definitely in our happy place. This week, HLS teams up with Keith Arnold of Inside the Irish for IBG duties. His answers to my questions are below and you can check out my responses to his trio of questions over at ...
Throughout the 2012 season, Her Loyal Sons and the Subway Domer, Keith Arnold's Inside the Irish, and UND's Strong and True blog will be participating in the rebirth of the Irish Blogger Gathering. The Subway Domer explained the details on his site last week: ...
If you have been reading this site (or any other ND football blog for that matter), you are likely very well aware of a little thing we participate in called the Irish Blogger Gathering. Usually, this is done in written form, but this year The Subway Domer wanted to kick things up a notch and add a supplemental podcast to the mix. Tonight, Subway and I will be hitting the internet airwaves on Blog Talk Radio at 11pm EST and we will be joined by Keith Arnold, the man behind Inside the Irish ...