One of the drums we beat incessantly here at HLS is our unabashed adoration of Brian Kelly and our unwavering commitment to him is our commitment to extolling the performance of Notre Dame athletes off the field. In today's post, I want to do two things: 1.) explain the difference between Graduation Success Rate (GSR) and Academic Performance Rate (APR); and 2.) compare Notre Dame's GSR and APR to that of Alabama, Oregon, and tOSU. I found the results interesting. The NCAA uses three metrics ...
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Good Fridays w/Padre: Common Scents
I’m not nearly as upset about this forthcoming Notre Dame perfume as most people might think. You must remember that the every Main Building I every built (including the one I burned) housed not only my Presidential office, but also dormitories for the lads. That’s right – I worked 16-hour days behind a desk and under the miasma generated by hard-working student bodies. That’s why I had a strict, twice-weekly bathing rule, as well as an unbreakable 4:00 Saturday foot-washing command. Even ...
Friday Roundup: The “Horribly Delayed” Edition
Better late than never...or something...right? Anyways, this week has been rather brutal. Thankfully I got some time to unwind at last night's Rangers game, but once I returned I too damn sleepy to think of anything to write. I made an executive decision to punt the Roundup to this evening, likely making Biscuit's head explode that I put baseball as a higher priority than football writings. ...
Friday Roundup: The “Sliding” Edition
Last night marked the start of the 2013 NFL Draft. From the Notre Dame perspective, all eyes were on Manti Te'o and Tyler Eifert. The Cincinnati Bengals took Eifert with their pick, 21st overall. Te'o, however, slide out of the first round completely. This shocked quite a few Irish fans, especially after Minnesota traded up to the 29th pick, their third pick in the first round. The seemingly ever growing home for NFL Domers decided to take Tennessee WR, Cordarrelle Patterson, ...
Good Fridays w/Padre: Chaplains
This week, the Michigan State football chaplain got himself in a bit of trouble for making a public boast about the Spartan basketball team, that was of questionable taste (to say the least). I know this is as much of a shock to you as it is to me – not that a priest has a filthy mouth, but that Michigan State athletes would welcome a man of God without trying to boil and eat him. I’m sure you also had the same initial suspicion that I had: a priest with low manners joining freely with our ...
Good Fridays w/Padre: OnlyHere
I still don’t entirely understand this elaborate process called “recruiting.” To me, it looks like Thai shadow puppetry, the way coaches and players chase each other around behind a screen until our new drop-everything-holiday, National Signing Day. Of course, people frequently remind me that what I used to call recruiting would now be classified as conscription at best, kidnapping at worst (get a lad to visit your Northern Indiana outpost, and then pretend the trains quit running because of ...
Good Fridays w/Padre: Courage!
“By the waters of Miami, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Notre Dame.” This is why, in our wisdom, we make you all take philosophy and theology, whether you like it or not. This is why you have to know a little something about what’s written in the Good Book, in order to be given a diploma written by our University. ...
Good Fridays w/Padre: Blessed
I’m too old to play. The game is too complicated for me to coach. But I’ve been working out my blessing arm and I’m ready to play to my strength. This is the National Championship, so I’m a blessing machine. You name it, I’ve blessed it. But I invite all loyal readers to let me know what else needs blessing. Here are the rules. ...
Friday Roundup: The “How I Met Your Alma Mater” Edition
Kids, back in 2012 it had been nearly 25 years since the Irish went into a bowl game as the #1 team in the nation. Nearly a quarter of a century had passed since Notre Dame simply needed to win one more game and a national title would be theirs. The last time this happened, I was a little over a month away from celebrating my fourth birthday. All of a sudden, one day I found myself with only three sleeps until I had the chance to watch my alma mater face off against Alabama for the a national ...
Roasting the Competition
What an honor and privilege it was for me, ladies and gentlemen, to have been asked by our illustrious Editor-in-Chief, Tex, to get up on this dais and roast our foes, past and future. I'll never forget his words to me, "Bayou! WE'VE GOT NOTHING FOR THURSDAY! YOU'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING!!!" So, after Maurice, my personal valet, poured me another thumb of the Jameson, I brought together everyone for one last gathering. It wasn't a problem. After all, I once put together a salon on short notice ...