After nearly a full month of Notre Dame football withdrawal, the Champs Sports Bowl is finally just around the corner and thus, the pre-snap read has returned from its holiday slumber as well. Â It's been far too long, so let's get to it. ...well, there hasn't been much to be honest. Seriously, until yesterday's post about what we at HLS think are five of the top ten stories of this season for ND, there has been very little going on here. Blame the turkey, the presents, and in ...
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HLS Pre-Snap Read: Conference Championship Edition
Welcome to the Pre-Snap read, now in its new home of Friday mornings. Although ND doesn't have a game this week, I will keep the Pre-Snap read going to highlight the other games going on around the nation all the way through the bowl season. Of course, when ND starts up next season, the Pre-Snap read will once again return and stay in the Friday slot to ensure that you will get very little work done. Plan accordingly. I was close to entitling this week "all the games that don't matter" but ...
HLS Pre-Snap Read: First the Turkey, Now the Tree
The end is now upon us as the Irish prepare to take the field tonight to wrap up their regular season slate against #6 Stanford. The Irish will enter the game ranked in the BCS at #22 for the first time this season as well. On the line tonight will be Stanford's dream of a BCS berth, Andrew Luck's Heisman hopes, and Notre Dame...well, we are really looking to play spoiler more than anything as we are about 99.9% likely to be Champs Sports Bowl bound no matter what the result. However, pulling ...
HLS Pre-Snap Read: Superpost Edition!
This week's edition of the Pre-Snap read is going to be a bit different today. Â It just so happens that the questions for this week's Irish Blogger Gathering covers what I would usually put in for the "Previously on HLS" and "Outside the Bubble Sections". Â So for this week, I will mix in the IBG questions with the usual topics covered in the Pre-Snap Read. There is quite a bit of content in this post and, to not make it a huge wall of text, I'm going to take advantage of some features of ...
HLS Pre-Snap Read: That Other Night Game
Or depending where you are in the nation, it could be that "other-other" night game.  Many thanks for moving this ESPN, I didn't want to watch LSU/Alabama as well, no not at all, that game totally isn't worth watching... I blame Craig James. Anyways, it's time for another edition of the HLS Pre-Snap Read (and of course, your weekly gameday thread) to get you ready for tonight's game as well as the rest of the college football day. ...
HLS Pre-Snap Read: Sink or Swim
Welcome to another edition of the HLS Pre-Snap read. Apologies for the delay today; however, a combination of work and the World Series put me behind schedule. Related, sports have hated me since last Saturday. Anyways, let's get to it. Biscuit kicked off a week of hell by examining five questions on his mind after USC I followed up by taking on three arguments of my own You don't know Jack, Jack Nolan that is I took a deeper look at one of my arguments regarding playcalling and ...
HLS Pre-Snap Read
Welcome to the first edition of the HLS Pre-Snap Read! This post will be a new weekly gameday staple at Her Loyal Sons to complete the gameday hype that we've built up throughout the week. The goal is to give you as much Notre Dame material as you can digest leading up to kickoff as well as highlighting some other major stories and games around the world of college football (and tossing in some needed hatred for certain opponents). Since this week is a bye, this inaugural edition will ...