Possibly the biggest individual perk of Notre Dame's football independence is the school's ability to create its own unique schedule every year. In theory, Notre Dame could schedule itself a cakewalk 12 wins a year by playing only cupcakes, or it could go the complete opposite and pit itself against the most brutal gauntlet of all time. While both of those scenarios have yet to come to fruiting, most fans would acknowledge that Notre Dame is closer to pursuing the latter. Yesterday, Notre ...
Debate THIS
Debate THIS: Toodle-oo, Tommy.
Tommy Rees cannot be the starting quarterback this season because we're still "talking about this stuff." He has not made the strides he needed to in order to establish himself as the Number One. Because questions remain, we need to move on from Tommy, as sad and painful as that might be. Remember, they had to shoot Old Yeller, too. On a gut level, I really, really, really wanted Tommy to work out. Tommy was, to my eye, the honey badger before Tyrann Mathieu burst on the scene. Tommy threw ...
Debate THIS! Quarterback Edition
Notre Dame students are smart kids, right? So surely it wouldn't be unreasonable to think that we should all be able to look at a set of facts or realities, and come to the same accurate, correct conclusions? Well, with the Notre Dame quarterback situation that doesn't seem to be the case. Amongst the student body, there truly is no single candidate that has been rallied around. 2012 is unique in that not only do you have 4 different quarterbacks with different styles, but they all have ...
Debate THIS: Is Kelly Committed to the Run?
After the debate Biscuit and DMQ had over the "FG Attempt That Never Was" during the week following the Michigan game, we realized that there's an opportunity to have some fun with our hard-headed ways. Whenever possible, HLS will present a topic under a new series, "Debate THIS." Either Biscuit or DMQ will present the topic, take a position, and challenge the other to debate in favor of the opposite position. And then later in the week, we'll poll the readers to see who won. After Purdue, ...