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Friday Roundup: The HVAC Edition

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Teams are always looking for ways to up their home-field advantage. Iowa paints their visitors' locker room pink. Notre Dame installed a comical tunnel for visiting teams to use. So when Ed Orgeron said that Texas cut off the air conditioning to the visitors' locker room, it sounded plausible even if it bordered on the bush-league absurd (even moreso than Weis' tactic of letting the grass in ND Stadium grow to absurd lengths). Coach O didn't stop there though. He said Texas pulled the same ...

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One of our Loyal Readers makes sure Michigan enjoys their bye weekend during the B1G Championship game with a bag of cheeseburgers via @fathersorinramblers

Friday Roundup: The Trolling Michigan via Uber Edition

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One of the things that I've enjoyed the most in the past couple of years here at HLS has been our focus on our crazy little community. Case in point: @frsorinramblers whom you will find on Twitter, our Discord, and our Twitch Channel. During our Hot Dog Bye Week podcast, this Loyal Reader revealed that he would spend his bye week Ubering around Ann Arbor during Army/Michigan weekend. Here's his playlist: For those keeping score at home, that's Army's Fight Song, The Irish Tenors, "Here ...

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Texas Loss Marks Beginning of Kelly’s End At ND

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For every coach in the post-Lou Holtz era of Notre Dame football, the ending of a coach’s tenure came well before the final game. As a fan you can almost sense it, that point when you finally realize the program is not going to be truly great with that coach at the helm. For Bob Davie, it came in the 2001 Fiesta Bowl when the Irish got humiliated and manhandled by Oregon State 41-9. In the Tyrone Willingham era it was year two. With a road trip to Syracuse and a minor bowl bid on the line, ...

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Notre Dame quarterback Malik Zaire, left, runs with the ball against Texas defensive end Naashon Hughes during the first half of an NCAA college football game Sept. 5, 2015, in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Five Great Opening Games for ND Football

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Notre Dame football has played 127 seasons, but for the purposes of determining the five best openers I'm going to limit my selections to the modern era. Here's the criteria I used: First, the game has to be against a quality opponent. Second, that team has to be from a major conference. Third, I cannot pick all the openers against Michigan. Fourth, it has to be a win. Fifth, the game has to be played after 1964, which I consider the start of the modern era. #5 Northwestern ...

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Notre Dame quarterback Rick Mirer scores a touchdown against the defense of Michigan's David Key (26) and Chris Hutchinson (97) at Notre Dame Stadium on Sept. 15, 1990. (Getty Images / John Biever)

Let’s Renew Our Rivalry With Michigan

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Anyone with any sense of college football history knows the importance of the Michigan/Notre Dame rivalry. We don’t have to rehash fight songs, their standing in winning percentage, the legend of Michigan students teaching football to Notre Dame to understand the magnitude of this series. I’ll be honest: When it ended in 2014, I was so elated with Notre Dame’s 31-0 pasting of the Wolverines that I didn’t give it much thought. Now as time passed and Michigan has rebounded under Jim ...

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10,000 Days: Fighting… For Another Championship

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Notre Dame football has not won a national championship in 10,000 days. Let that little factoid wash over you. Steph Curry, Rihanna, Adele, Haley Joel Osment, Emma Stone, and Michael Cera were all born the year the Irish last hoisted the crystal football, or whatever they hoisted back then. It was probably a rough-hewn marble tablet or something. Something sepia toned, and in the newsreels everyone moved too fast, and all the men wore hats. https://youtu.be/zVAhI0eSeCQ Vietnam is ...

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What Should The Yearly Expectations Be For ND Football?

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What is good enough for Notre Dame? I was a child of the Lou Holtz years, when Notre Dame was in the hunt for a national title almost every season. That has not been the case at any point since Holtz left. In this article, I'm going to look at some of the stated "hurdles" and determine if they're relevant. Then, I'm going to answer: What is a reasonable expectation for Notre Dame football on an annual basis? Schedule “We won nine games two years out of the five. I think the difficulty is ...

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Urban Meyer Better Than Brian Kelly In Most Ways

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This entry is part of Her Loyal Sons' continuing Fiesta Bowl preview series: Defensive preview, Ezekiel Elliott accident, Costume Gameday, offensive preview, Injured Irish returning, comprehensive bowl overview. Today, we examine the coaches. By almost all metrics, Ohio State's Urban Meyer has had a more successful career recently than Notre Dame's Brian Kelly. Let's compare: HEAD-TO-HEAD (ON THE FIELD) Kelly and Meyer have never faced each other. The pair were on a collision course ...

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Morning Roundup: March 9, 2015

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Good morning! We're still collecting pledges to purchase the Boda collection and return it to Notre Dame. Read more about this important piece of history and make your pledge here. Here are your headlines: FROM OUR SITE BK era: Scoring offense and defense RECRUITING One Foot Down: OFD opinions: 2016 recruiting top target (Joejuan Williams, Josh King and Rashan Gary) 247 Sports: Six earn invite to The Opening at LA regional (Matt Fink) AL.com: Auburn in good position with RB ...

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Morning Roundup: Feb. 20, 2015

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Good morning! Here are your headlines: VIDEO Irish Illustrated: NFL Combine interview: DaVaris Daniels (5:23) Scout: Scout spotlight: Bo Wallace (00:54) Irish Illustrated: NFL Combine interview: Ben Koyack (5:10) RECRUITING Scout: The No. 1 center in Florida will visit Auburn (Brett Heggie, brother of Bruce Heggie) Scout: Noah Davis finding recruiting surreal (Notre Dame has not offered) Irish Sports Daily: Recruiting week in review (Chauncey Gardner & Tre Nixon) Fox ...

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