it's the off-season

Good Fridays w/Padre: Season’s Farewells

May 3, 2013 by Father Sorin

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” If you tell me that’s from a really cool folk rock band and you like to listen to it late at night when you’re drunk and nostalgic because it reminds you of your high school senior retreat, I’ll increase your Theology requirement from two courses to 16. It is Biblical Wisdom Literature, and in this fleeting season of dramatic transition, we turn to it for guidance. Classes have ended, papers are coming due, final ...

Tabling the Issue: How Does Everett Golson Do?

March 13, 2013 by Bayou Irish

One of the things I wanted to do this off season is see where Everett Golson fits in among his peers, and, thanks to the statistics nerds at www.und.com, I was able to pull all the data I needed (except for 1998) (WTH?) from the source, as it were. So, with a data-set of 21 years, I looked at each QB's Total Passing Yards (TPY), Attempts (Atts), Completions (Comps), Completion Percentage (%), Touchdowns (TD's) and Interceptions (INT's). To qualify, a quarterback had to start four games in a ...

Good Fridays w/Padre: Fun&Games

March 8, 2013 by Father Sorin

At this very moment, Notre Dame students are packing their bags and preparing to depart Our Lady’s campus – not because they didn’t get enough playing time, but because it’s time to play. Spring Break has once again woken up, staggered onto the calendar, and with a bleary wink and a louche wave, beckoned our students to join in the revelries of its vernal rites. ...

WWKD: What Would Katie Do?

January 25, 2013 by The Biscuit

Sorry Tex, unscheduled rant coming... Excuse me, WHAT THE HELL IS KATIE COURIC DOING? The whole world should be calling her out for the BS she displayed yesterday. Not gonna? Okay then, I will. Thanks Katie, for getting me back into RANT MODE. Don't get me wrong, I actually thought 95% of her interview was decent. It wasn't soft, she asked some tough questions, but those questions deserved to and needed to be asked. For her to look at all professional, and to give Manti a chance to answer ...

If You Can’t Have a Bye, You May as Well Have Purdue

July 9, 2012 by Bayou Irish

In 53 days and a wake up, we play Navy. I became acquainted with the "and a wake up" method of counting days when I was deployed and would anticipate going home as the sum of any number of days "and a wake up." That the phrase includes the act of sleeping makes it particluarly appropriate when considering Purdue and the possible negative effects playing in Dublin will have on the Irish in 2012. The NFL has played a game in London every year since 2007, when the New York Giants played the ...

Ole Miss-Auburn and The Grove: Tailgate Heaven

April 19, 2011 by The Biscuit

Back in the Fall, the same weekend that ND hit rock bottom with a loss to Tulsa (a weekend I picked because I thought it was a guaranteed and boring win), I was lucky enough to travel to Oxford, MS to tailgate at the Ole Miss-Auburn game in the legendary Grove on the Ole Miss campus. While all you Loyal Readers were in misery, I was in drunken tailgate heaven without a care in the world. (Sorry.) A buddy of mine and I had talked about how weâ€™d wanted to check out SEC football for a ...

Rothstein Never Took Finance

May 21, 2008 by The Biscuit

Generally speaking, I'm most-of-the-time okay with Michael Rothstein's writing at his "Irish Insights" blog.Â While not the most prolific/inspiring writer, he gets some good stories at times.Â And while he loooooves to cover the mundane during the off-season, so do we, so we can't knock him for it. But, Mike, seriously, you can't call out Tim Brown for his 'poor' stock picks one freaking week after he picked them!Â That's just not how the analysis of financial instruments works.Â Ever ...

Hot Pocket!

March 4, 2008 by domer.mq

During my time at Notre Dame, the South Dining Hall's kitchens were closed for renovation. Note that I wrote "kitchens." That's because the dining halls themselves were not closed. They were just left opened to provide students who didn't want to trek across campus in the freezing February nights to North Dining Hall with a dining "option." And, really, the only "option" available was Hot Pockets. That particular year, I ate a lot of Hot Pockets, and I'm pretty sure whatever rare form ...