First of all, I am kind of glad these two guys chose not to attend Our Lady's University. Why? The horrible last-name puns. I mean, I just made one, and I hate myself for it. Damn. Anyway, after a day of cooling off, I am okay again. Okay to post, okay to breathe, okay to talk. I was flipping out yesterday. Yes, I lost perspective. Completely. Now I am back, normal, and Mr. Brightside again. Except that I hate recruiting. It is lame. We have a Top Ten class, for the ...
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Nope. Couldn’t Have Said It Any Better…
This pretty much sums up my feelings about our latest recruiting season. I think. What is the Genius doing?? Exactly what he should be. He's builing a base. But it's a base not like any other in college football (although Michigan is the closest). It has a geographic aspect to it, but the geography is not a specific state. It is, for lack of a better term, the "Rust Belt" -- Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, with Minnesota, Iowa, and Kentucky/Tennessee ...
Is It Over Yet?
Damn do I hate recruiting. But despite my hatred of all things recruiting, I lurked every chat, message board, and water cooler related to ND football for the last 24 hours in order to provide you with the most information packed analysis of the 2007 recruiting season that you'll ever see. But then I realized it's just not worth it. Maybe I'm just too exhausted now. So I give you this mindless drivel instead. Ok, so maybe things didn't go quite to plan. If you didn't have an account with ...
Yeah, Yeah. We Know. It’s National LOI Day!
Yay. The most anti-climactic day of the year aside from prom night. Except this one usually leaves grown men crying rather than pretentious teen girls cryings. Either way, too much taffeta is involved in both. Even though we have a pretty good idea of exactly how this will all play out (again, just like prom night), we're going to wait until after Charlie makes it all official around noon Eastern. Then we'll throw down with a love-fest the likes of which this world has not seen since ...
Because Recruiting Isn’t Insane Enough…
The Wiz has just shown us the way to the promised-land of visualized recruiting efforts. MapGameDay.com will help you all cyber-stalk the newest batch of ND recruits. Right now, their ND information is incomplete, but it sounds like by Wednesday, all of your recruit-mapping needs will be fully satiated. Just FYI, the map only depicts the hometowns of recruits. It does not actually mark their current locations in real-time, sickos. ...
The Chicago Bears Need Brady Quinn
I was going to title this piece "The Chicago Bears Need to Draft Brady Quinn." But then I realized I may be setting myself up for comments by an entire city that is, right now, wallowing in the largest display of collective self-hate I've ever seen. If you don't already know, I live in Chicago, and so I'm in an excellent position to observer this city. You may also not know that Chicago is in the middle of an incredible cold snap. The temperature is -3 right now, with a wind chill of -29. ...
ND Fans Experience Flashbacks to “The Season” on ESPN, Convulse Violently.
Brady Quinn and XBox have teamed up in Brady's first real move as a professional athlete - scoring corporate cash. In the deal, Quinn and the XBox team will chronicle the experiences of a top draft pick as he maneuvers into position towards becoming a pro. Look for Quinn to utilize an absurd amount of video gaming in his professional career preparations. ...
Quinn, Montana Pass Too Near Eachother. Warp Time, Color
HT, WithLeather Brady Quinn and Joe Montana were sighted in Miami today. In the picture above, you can see Joe noticing that their proximity to one another was already altering the hue of Brady's shirt and warding off the future NFL start so as to maintain the integrity of the time/space continuum. ...
Friday Roundup: Same $%&@, Different Day
If the groundhog's smart, he wont come out today. Too damned cold. The Roundup: BGS has a nice write-up of how a little school in Indiana made an offer to big time kicker in Ohio, and won him over. It'll warm the cockles of your heart. HRB explains the wheel of pain in recruiting. Oddly, the wheel of pain has nothing to do with fraternity hazing at Florida State. If EDSBS were a sales guy, and their Fulmer Cup were a product, right now they'd be talking about how this year's ...
A Primer on Poaching
If you're following ND football and recruiting lately, you've probably seen the term "poach" come about quite a bit. HLS, always here to serve, offers up a little primer so you can fully understand the term. Poached: Not Poached: Justing Trattou Poached: Not Poached: Brian Smith Poached: Not Poached: ...