The football players, some hall staff, and a few other students are already here. In one week the freshmen arrive, followed shortly by the rest of the undergraduates. Here’s a back-to-school list of supplies to have on hand for the coming year. Football Players You should have settled in by now, and the Guglielmino Merchandise Emporium will outfit you with everything from shorts to shoes to plenty of uniforms (which seem to increase in number and variety every year…blue, gold, white, ...
Brian Kelly
Running Into a Backwards Gauntlet: An Analysis
By this point, you've all probably seen the video. Cam McDaniel goes running full speed into a gauntlet pointed in the wrong direction, despite previously pointing it out to Brian Kelly just moments before. If you haven't here it is (ESPN took the original down, we found another, times won't match up below, but you'll get the gist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExlN3w5042k On the surface, this looks like an embarrassing moment for Notre Dame. We brag about our smart student athletes ...
8 Big Questions for the 2013 Season
With the season nearing ever closer, I started to think of some of the big questions on my mind for the 2013 campaign. While we don't have some of the major burning questions that we did last year (who will be the starting QB?), there are still some unanswered questions coming into season. Here are the eight questions that I came up with as I pondered the upcoming season in glorious non-slideshow form: ...
Jack Nolan Talks Notre Dame Football at ND Dallas Kickoff
Every year, the Notre Dame Club of Dallas gets ready for the upcoming Notre Dame football season with our annual kickoff party. The event allows our membership to enjoy to some food and drinks while we raise money via live auction for our scholarship fund, given annually to local Dallas students that attend ND (as a reference, last year, ND Dallas gave $70,000 out to 22 deserving students). One of the highlights of this event though, is the special guest that comes to talk to the club and ...
Kelly Previews Fall Camp, Vanderdoes Gets Reprieve
We have a couple notes of interest from today. Firstly, Brian Kelly sat down with Jack Nolan to discuss the upcoming fall camp and giving a bit of a "state of the team" address in the interview. You can watch the whole thing below: ...
Good Fridays w/Padre: Team Building
Brian Kelly is taking his show on the road. Specifically, he’s taking his team to beautiful Marion, Indiana, to start the season’s practices. In addition to being an exciting change of venue for the lads, Shiloh Park evidently offers something the University of Notre Dame, in all its glory, does not: A Challenge Course. And I was of the opinion that all of our courses were challenging. As it was explained to me, a Challenge Course is used in team-building exercises. And I was of the opinion ...
“The Irish” – Episode One – “Poor Academic Judgment”
Today, we here at HLS launch a new series, “The Irish,” our homage to the boys in blue and gold and to HBO’s seminal gangland drama, “The Sopranos.” The language and characterizations found in our effort fit the television show, so this is perhaps not something you want to share with your kids. That being said, we felt that to censor ourselves would do an injustice to the material. Plus, you have Father Sorin’s regular posts on Friday morning to cleanse the soul. We hope you ...
Good Fridays w/Padre: ND SA
You have to write an essay – and a good one at that – in order to be admitted to Our Lady’s University. But just anyone can buy, be given, or stumble upon a ticket to a home game. And I’m not exactly sure that’s appropriate. I think there should be an essay application for anyone – student, alum, subway alum, or first-time fan – who wants to enter the House the Rockne Built…except the other team’s people, who we know are illiterate. So I’ve taken this year’s actual essay questions, written ...
Good Fridays w/Padre: Scandal Us
At this time in July, as families travel across the country, grade-school children catalog their new experiences so they can write those all-important “what I did on my summer vacation” essays. At this very same time, across America, sports journalists are sloughing off the blackened husks that used to be their integrity and are skimming the sewers of half-truths and scurrilous gossip, as they prepare to smear Notre Dame in the style of angry chimpanzees with handfuls of their own filth. This ...
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 ...