According to the OC Register (still hunting for link), the starting QB for UCLA cannot speak. Which means he cannot call the cadence, let alone call any audibles in a loud stadium. Pat Cowan is likely to start Saturday at Notre Dame, but there are concerns about his ability to communicate. There are also answers to questions about strategy and play-calling from the fourth quarter of UCLA's loss at Oregon. Cowan, the Bruins quarterback, took a shot to the throat in the second half. As the ...
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BCS Rankings Are Out, But Why?
The Bowl Championship Rankings Are out. Notre Dame places 8th. It doesn't matter. It has absolutely no effect on which teams will play in which bowls. So why not just have one, single BCS ranking at the end of the regular season? Controversy = . It's simple. Start releasing the BCS rankings from the beggining of the season, and nobody will really care much because it's just too early in the season for all the variables that go into the BCS to make any sense. You'd end up with some ...
“Others Receiving Votes”
I was checking out the rankings, and it struck me how odd this year is compared to what we came to 'know' when we were at ND. We came to 'know' that Florida State and Miami were unstoppable powerhouses, we came to 'know' that certain teams were horrid and a walk in the park, and we came to 'know' that we should be in the upper echelon of college football, but we weren't. Okay, there shouldn't be quotes around that last know. We did know that. But checking out the latest polls and ...
Friday Roundup: The Phoenix Edition
We're back! And undeader than ever! HLS: Like her, except hotter. We had some technical difficulties (I didn't pay the bills), so our host shut us down early this morning. It wouldn't have been a problem had I known that it was time to renew the contract (I've actually owned this domain for 4 years), and had the credit card I used to buy the domain not expired 3 years ago, and had I not moved about 4 times since then, and had I still been using the e-mail account or phone number that the ...
Ronald Talley Leaves Notre Dame Football Team
Defensive End Ronald Talley has left the Notre Dame football team according to a University of Notre Dame press release. Still looking for a link, but it's been confirmed on NDN and IE. Thanks to lousy recruiting in the last years of the Ty Willingham debacle, this leaves us terribly thin on the defensive line. It will be very interesting to see how things play out the rest of the season. Good luck to Talley. Hopefully this is the right move for him. Edit: He's already no longer ...
ND Opponent “Bye” Declared Slightly Less Boring than Purdue
SOUTH BEND, Ind.--During a week without much else to do, the staff at HLS was able to conduct some research regarding Notre Dame's upcoming opponent BYE. The staff learned that BYE is a slightly less boring opponent than Purdue. In the all-time boring opponents rankings, BYE was sandwiched between Purdue and the slightly less boring near-namesake BYU, presumably based solely on the fact that "The Punky QB" Jim McMahon attended BYU. A somewhat boring fan demonstrates BYE's bland ...
Sam Young Doesn’t Hit the Wall. Sam Young Actually IS a Wall.
HLS would like to place itself firmly in the shotgun position of the Sam Young bandwagon. We look forward to many pancakes in the future. That's not really much of a change due to Sam. We're always looking forward to pancakes. Specifically with some chocolate chips and whipped cream. Anyway, I digress and head to the cafeteria. Meanwhile, you can read a little about The Wall here. And here, have a blurb so the headline makes sense: "A lot of people talk about the wall, the freshman ...
Smith vs. Quinn for Heisman (Big Q Got Me Thinking)
He got me thinking real hard. Which is difficult to do. So I ran some analyses comparing OSU's Troy Smith, the runaway Heisman favorite, with our own Brady Quinn. I ran the numbers on performance in basic statistical areas across a few different sets of competition: "Bad Competition" - For Smith this includes Northern Illinois, Cincinnati and Bowling Green and for Quinn this includes Michigan State, Purdue and Stanford. "Good Competition" - Smith played Texas, Penn State and Iowa ...
Answer Is: “Yes.”
Trebek: domer.mq? domer.mq: Was this a cheap shot? Trebek: Correct. The board is yours. domer.mq: I'll take "No Shit" for 500, Alex. [youtube]itLfjKed6pY[/youtube] In case ya missed it, UCLA's starting QB won't be around for the ND game. ...
Quinn (Not) for The Heisman
Just wanted to direct folks over to IRT's Random Bye Week Thoughts. My personal favorite is point number 2: 2. Speaking of Troy Smith, CBS Sportsline has a hard-on for him. Compare these two statements: Ho-hum, Brady Quinn threw for 232 yards and three touchdowns against Stanford. Are those the type of performances to get Quinn back into the Heisman race? Probably not. He needs to start throwing for 300 yards against the lesser competition. Troy Smith had one of the best games of his ...