A Notre Dame Football Blog
Welp, sure glad I requested that no more craziness happen in the offseason in last week's episode. That went well. One of these days I will learn to stay quiet and shut my mouth, but that also seems rather counterproductive for someone that has a podcast. Just blame #BlameTex. #DammitTex. Anyways, the Roundup segment, which I was hoping to shorten going forward ends up running a bit long due to six Notre Dame arrests. Thankfully, we still have some levity in the pod as NDEddieMac returns ...
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 ...
Jack Jorgensen, college football editor for FanSided, took some time out of his holiday schedule to chat with me about the remaining bowl games. We keep a special focus on the New Year's Six games (yes, that includes the Fiesta Bowl) as well as talking about some games that should be on your radar. Of course, since Jack also writes for The Daily DDT, I just had to throw some wrestling in at the end. Enjoy! ...
As next Friday will be Christmas, I made an executive decision to turn this episode of the Roundup into one gigantic episode full of picks from myself and NDEddieMac, complete with every bowl game found in the HLS/ND Fan Radio confidence bowl pool. Yes, even the mystery FCS bowl. If you were waiting to pick against Eddie and I for every single game, you got your wish. It was quite the long marathon, but, with the help of whiskey, we made it through. Some of the bigger headlines around ...
It finally happened. I logged into Destiny for the first time. Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag went from its shrink-wrapped protected home to my not-used-nearly-enough-to-my-liking PlayStation 4. Sometimes, having a bit of a break from the wire-to-wire glory that is college football Saturdays is quite nice. Along with getting a chance to play a couple of games that have been staring at me since last Christmas, I attended a college basketball game for the first time since my graduation from ...
The "coaching centrifuge" is one of those things that I'm pushing (probably unsuccessfully) much like "#CollegeRefs", but I honestly can't think of a description so apt for how fast this year's carousel spun. In all honesty, I was expecting the major dominoes to fall after all of the conference championships, but college football waits for no one. While I didn't have time this week to keep up with every single hire, I hit the big splashes as well as the curious trend of interim head coaches ...
Eddie and I thought that we would be able to record our picks early and have a nice, relaxing Thanksgiving holiday. Unfortunately for us, we decided the early record would happen on Tuesday night after we saw Notre Dame fall to #6 in the playoff rankings. So before we picked 12 (!) games, we decided to do a healthy dose of audio ranting to ease the pain. When all was said and done, our segment basically hijacked the episode. I have zero issues rolling with that. Come out of your ...