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 ...
Lazy Sports "Journalists"
Just Stop Writing Dumb “Join B1G” Columns Already, Everyone
Ok, usually I don't get drawn offsides very much by any "Notre Dame should join X conference" articles, but this last attempt takes the cake in terms of stupidity. You can find the original by Dave Wischnowsky here, but I urge you not to click it. You'll get all the breakdown you need after the jump. ...
Doing It the Right Way
By now, most Fighting Irish fans are familiar with a certain kind of article about Notre Dame football. You know, the kind that serve mostly as click-bait to drive up the pageviews, coming in two flavors: "irrelevant" and "Notre Dame has sold it's soul for football". They, and their target audiences, simply can't reconcile that any school, much less Notre Dame, can achieve success in football by "doing it the right way" off the field as well. ND's current success simply must be a product of some ...
The Absurdity of K-State Above ND
We all know the polls are dumb. I don't mean any individuals are dumb (which is also likely) but that the collective group is. They lack data, they don't pay attention to data if they do have it, and their own biases impact everything. It's kind of a silly system, and the current ranking of ND behind K-State is also silly. This is a rock. We have a golden dome with Jesus' mom on it. C'MON! Here's why. Let's take a look at a few data points to evaluate the order here: 1. ...
The Idiot Box: In Which We Prove (once again) Rick Reilly’s Idiocy AND That Purdue Is Boringness
So I can't let Rick Reilly's article go. Maybe that was part of his cunning plan: so infuriate the Irish that they go on an undefeated run which causes him enormous pleasure because that entire bit about him turning in his fan card was actually a literary deceit. But in all likelihood, he was being sincere and he was actually offended that NBC didn't tear up its contract with Notre Dame. So this season, a season in which The Irish have "returned to relevance" (those are air quotes - we've never ...
Kelly’s “Shot” at Greenberry
According to CBSSports.com, Brian Kelly really put his foot in his mouth on signing day when it came to commenting on Deontay Greenberry: Coach Brian Kelly wanted the focus to be on the 16 players who signed, rather than the one (5-star WR Deontay Greenberry) who didn't. "I used to have a saying about players like that and that was I'd rather play against him for four games than with him for four years," he told UND.com. If you follow the link, you will see that this isn't an excerpt from an ...
Jay Mariotti, We Knew Ye More Than We’d Have Liked
By now you know that Chicago Sun Times columnist Jay Mariotti has resigned. You probably know because parades have been running all over America in response to the news, violence in major metropolitan areas has dipped in the last 24 hours, and that acid-reflux that's been giving you fits for the last 6 months hasn't been too bad today despite the double-double you had for lunch. And by now you also know that Mariotti is hardly done with this world any more than Satan is. He's bound to pop ...
On being Brian Hamilton, Eating Cake, and Whimpers
Really, thank God Brian Hamilton and the editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune are a bunch of desperate morons looking to manufacture news in order to improve their bottom line and keep their new owner from axing them like he's been axing so many others. It gives us all something to talk about until football practices start for Notre Dame. I've been working on a pretty stats-heavy post for the last few days, but it's been a lot of work to put together. Writing about this Brian Hamilton thing ...
The Chicago Tribune’s Telephone Game
By now you're all familiar with how the Chicago Tribune's Notre Dame beat writer, Brian Hamilton, saw a blog post about college kids acting like college kids and decided to manufacture a "news" story about it, first in his own Chicago Tribune Notre Dame blog, and then, once some apparently desperate editors got ahold of it, the Chicago Tribune itself. And today, we find the inevitable results of the mainstream media "telephone game," as Philly.com, the website for the Philadelphia Inquirer and ...
Northwestern University Must Be Pretty Lame
This morning, TheBigLead.com published undated photos of Notre Dame football players Jimmy Clausen, James Aldridge, and Brian Smith at what is apparently a party. And the website notes that said party may have been called "The Beer Olympics." We noticed the post and thought little of it, figuring that TBL originally posted the photos because the players are wearing some really unusual "team uniforms." In other words, they look like stupid college kids being stupid college kids. But then ...