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HLS Recap: When the Sim Became Reality

October 19, 2020 by Ryan Ritter

We should've known that the Sim resembling something of a normal result via reasonable means would through the Notre Dame universe upside down. We can't take credit for what happened around the nation. After all, top 10 teams losing in 2020 seems rather normal at this point. We do, however, apologize for making your Saturday a bit more stressful than needed. That being said, we do not apologize for being happy about a win and embracing the Irish's new #3 ranking. Winning is the damn point ...

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Filed Under: College Football, Notre Dame Football, Podcast Tagged With: Alabama, Clemson, College Football Rankings, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Just win baby, Louisville, North Carolina

Good Fridays w/Padre: Unexpectations

December 30, 2016 by Father Sorin

What an unexpected year! No one should have been surprised that 2016 followed 2015; but the manner in which it followed was surprising: Not so much as night follows day, but more as a troop of rabid baboons follows the tourist who went to relieve himself behind the bushes and missed the bus back to the safari lodge, all while having his pockets stuffed full of beef jerky and hard candies. The Fighting Irish 4-8: We began the 2016 season ranked tenth and widely expected to vie for a place in ...

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Filed Under: College Football, History, Notre Dame Football, Notre Dame Men's Basketball, Notre Dame Women's Basketball Tagged With: Baboons, Brian Kelly, Brian VanGorder, College Football Playoffs, College Football Rankings, Cubs, Irish, Jack Swarbrick, Michigan, Navy, Notre Dame, Predictions, Things That Suck, Tower of Babel, Trump

Good Fridays w/Padre: Sunday Services

September 2, 2016 by Father Sorin

I haven’t had to perform too many theological gymnastics in order to accept that we start this year’s Football March to Victory on a Sunday. Yes, it is The Lord’s Day. But you can go to Mass on Saturday evening and it still counts. The Lord is just happy to see you, and He appreciates that you stopped in for a visit. Besides, we don’t take the Bible literally. If we did, there would be a lot of eyes plucked out for looking at filthy images (like USC and Alabama playing with each other), and a ...

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Filed Under: College Football, History, Notre Dame Football Tagged With: Alabama, College Football Playoffs, College Football Rankings, Lazy Sports "Journalists", Mother Teresa, Notre Dame, Pope, Texas, USC

Good Fridays w/Padre: Bad Question

February 12, 2016 by Father Sorin

Last weekend was that big football game which millions ignore to watch everything else that goes on around it. A lot of defense was played and a quarterback of mature years seemingly concluded his career on a high note. One of the several occurrences that people found more interesting than the game itself was the press conference during which the defeated quarterback was laconic, surly, and dismissive before dismissing himself from the press conference. I’m told this fellow attended no fewer ...

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Filed Under: College Football, Notre Dame Football, Notre Dame Men's Basketball, Opponents, Recruiting Tagged With: Alabama, Brian Kelly, Cam Newton, College Football Rankings, Corey Robinson, Florida State, Jim Harbaugh, Johnny Manziel, Lazy Sports "Journalists", Lou Holtz, Michigan, Nick Saban, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Our Rival, Pat Haden, Schedule Strength, SEC, Super Bowl, USC

Good Fridays w/Padre: Burned after Reading

January 8, 2016 by Father Sorin

Dear Playoff Selection Cabal Committee: I lodged a complaint with you last year when you began this sinister manipulation of the national treasure that is the venerable college football tradition. You fared somewhat well with your collusory scheme in your first attempt, though I suspect this had more to do with the sort of benighted luck visited upon a broken analogue clock that succeeds in telling accurate time in two minutes out of the 24-hour day. With this year’s shambolic farce, though, ...

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Filed Under: College Football, Notre Dame Football, Opponents Tagged With: Alabama, College Football Playoffs, College Football Rankings, Irish, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Stanford

Good Fridays w/Padre: Candid Dates

September 18, 2015 by Father Sorin

There’s been a lot of talk in the last few days about the debate among the candidates who want to be President. I was President and I didn’t have to debate anybody for the position – I just had to buy the land, build the buildings, bring in students, burn it down, start over…you know, those sort of things. When I retired, I became Superior General so I could give the President orders. I highly recommend this course of action to those seeking higher office. The only debate I had while I was ...

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Filed Under: College Football, History, Notre Dame Football, Opponents Tagged With: Candidates Debate, College Football Rankings, Georgia Tech, Navy, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Our Rival, Poor Michigan, Rudy, Stanford, Texas, USC

Good Fridays w/Padre: Bad Ideas

February 20, 2015 by Father Sorin

Like the icicle that starts to form at the corner of the roof, it slowly grows until it’s a heavy, sharp, pointed thing that will impale you without warning.  It was fascinating to behold at one time, but it became a lethal sculpture that plunged through the window and left your room cold and wet.  This icicle is a metaphor for a Very Bad Idea, and many of them are forming at this time of year. Not surprising that an athletic conference, the source and summit of bad ideas, is the water ...

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Filed Under: College Football, History, Notre Dame Football, Notre Dame Men's Basketball, Recruiting Tagged With: Big Ten, Caravaggio, College Football Rankings, Graduation Success Rate, it's the off-season, Ohio State, Philosophy, SEC, Theology

Friday Roundup: The “Made for TV” Edition

January 16, 2015 by Ryan Ritter

Now that the bowl season has finally come to a close, the stats that matter have finally come out: attendance and TV ratings. While my tongue is certainly planted in my cheek right now, I certainly recognize that the expansive bowl season, now totaling 39 games and featuring 76 teams (that's 59.4% of the FBS if you're keeping score), is all business. And while we've certainly heard that teams lose money going to these games, there is evidence that said loss could very well be an exercise in ...

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Filed Under: Friday Roundup Tagged With: Bowl Games, College Football Playoffs, College Football Rankings, Ronnie Stanley

Good Fridays w/Padre: Era’s End

January 9, 2015 by Father Sorin

So the Freemasons have won.  Or the Illuminati, Rosicrucians, Elders of the Priory of Sion – let’s just call them the E-lders of the S-ion P-riory freemasoNs.  They and their Rodent Overlord enjoy a complete victory; they have taken over college football and forced the creation of the playoff system that they have long wanted, and will long broadcast, for lots of money.  I mourn the passing of an era.  Gone are the days when the leading teams from regional affiliations of colleges would compete ...

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Filed Under: College Football, History, Notre Dame Football, Opponents Tagged With: Alabama, college football playoff, College Football Rankings, ESPN, Florida State, Lazy Sports "Journalists", Lou Holtz, Nick Saban, Ohio State, Oregon, The Elders, Things That Suck, Urban Meyer

TCB Poll, brought to you by the Elvii of college football

TCB Poll: College Football Playoff

December 7, 2014 by IrishElvis

Beginning in 2014, a playoff selection committee will determine which four college football teams play for the national title. Some are skeptical of the committee, so we -- the Elvii of college football -- have joined together to present our weekly playoff nominations. We call it the T.C.B. Poll. ...

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Filed Under: College Football, Opponents Tagged With: Alabama, auburn elvis, Baylor, baylor bears, Buckeyes, bulldogs, college football elvii, college football playoff, College Football Playoffs, College Football Rankings, crimson tide, ducks, fighting irish, Florida State, fsu, hawkeye elvis, irish elvis, LSU elvis, mississippi state, msu, Ohio State, Oregon, oregon ducks, OSU Buckeyes, SEC, seminoles, taking care of business, TCB Poll, TCU, Texas Christian

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