Outlined against a clear-blue August sky, the Lone Horseman rode again. In dramatic lore he is known as the Purple-Faced Monster. This is only an alias. His real name is Brian Kelly. He trotted in front of his South Bend squad before which another practice would be held in the friendly confines of the Culver Academies as a handful of Fighting Irish Digital Media employees peered through their camera lenses and over their Twitter devices at the bewildering sight prancing on the synthetic field ...
Pittsburgh
Her Loyal Podcast: Episode 05 – THE SUBWAY DOMER RETURNS
That's right folks, THE Subway Domer has made a return for Her Loyal Podcast to talk about the Notre Dame/Pitt disaster with the Irish Twins. There is no preview needed! On the iTunes front, I think I'm (finally) getting things figured out (I hope). I'm hoping to have it all settled before BYU. Anyways, enough from me, let's get to it! ...
Friday Roundup: The “Embracing a Heart Attack” Edition
Let's take a look at the last decade of Notre Dame/Pitt: Save for Weis making quite the debut against a very unprepared Pitt led by Dave Wannstedt, the ND/Pitt series has been defined by a single possession contest as of late. To be honest, it's really hard to explain why. For the most part, Pitt has been a medicore team that Notre Dame is usually better than. Last year's game was probably the best example of this: an undefeated Irish squad hanging on for dear life against a team that ...
Pittsburgh Road Trip – Part II
Yesterday I covered all of the Notre Dame related things to do while you are in Pittsburgh this weekend for the ND/Pitt game. Today I am going to cover the non Notre Dame related things that you should do while you are in the 'Burgh this weekend! (Three of my awesome Pittsburgh friends contributed to today's post and so I'll give them credit as credit is due!) Lets start with place to eat! Pierogies Plus - Pick up pierogies to go from Pierogies Plus in McKees Rocks. It's a ramshackle ...
Uh, Pitt, What Are You Doing?
You know, I've seen and heard a lot of weird things in college football. After all this is the sport that has an old man, post-stroke no less, donning mascot heads and doing all kinds of odd things (and bless you forever, Corso, for doing them) and having the entire thing not just considered normal, but highly anticipated. However, Pitt has taken the cake this week as they prepare for Notre Dame. Exhibit A: https://twitter.com/SwigNation/status/398193422617804800 In what universe ...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Brian Kelly Stands By His Man
After the extraordinary drama of the thrilling win over Pitt had faded a little bit, Brian Kelly took to the podium as part of his weekly routine. Perhaps, by now, you've watched it, or read about it, but one exchange between the Coach and a, perhaps nervous, perhaps student, reporter caught my attention. At 12:05 in the video below, watch Coach Kelly deal with a perceived challenge to one of his players: http://youtu.be/b1TpQtJlm-k Louis Nix has got a lot in the Bank of Trust with ...
Not Quite As Planned
I'm sure that a triple OT victory against an unranked opponent was far from the plan that Brian Kelly had for Notre Dame. Losing the turnover battle 3 to 0 surely wasn't in there as well. Nor was having the QB rotation finally backfire in the form of a Tommy Rees interception that led to 7 points for Pitt. I'm sure Kyle Brindza's kicking woes had no place in there as well. With all that I had planned for this football weekend, I figured the actual game would be the least of my ...
HLS Staff: 2012 Notre Dame Season Predictions
Instead of sitting around and sulking while wishing we were vacationing in Dublin, the HLS team got together to predict the 2012 Irish regular season record. Biscuit, NDtex, Bayou Irish, Grantland-X and myself all agree that ND will beat Navy this weekend, but from there we all see things shaking out a little bit differently. ...
ND Opponent Update: Fall Camp
As we close in on the beginning of the 2012 season, I decided to take the Twibby Bus around the country to check up on each of the Irish opponents. The grueling journey ended with the discovery of plenty adverse effects from NCAA sanctions, a trio of unfit sailors, a couple of quarterback question marks, and a lot of injured offensive linemen. Updates are listed in the order of the ND schedule. Like Everett Golson trying to get used to the playbook, I am still trying to get figure out HLS 3.0 ...