A Notre Dame Football Blog
WHAT'S UP HLS NATION?!?!?!?!!??! WE are back, and the leprechauns are as spry as ever. It's been another busy offseason of loathing Michigan (because they SUCK) and USC (grooooooan, they're so bad right now it's amaaaaaaazing) and waiting for the polls to ding us more than everyone else for losing to Clemson (#9 yay!) Dance, Dance, Dance! A reminder: the Leprechauns help me predict the season by giving us a scale of relative (un)certainty on said predictions. I'm generally either ...
Under a blue-gray sky, the flags of the HLS Cotton Bowl Tailgate flew.
I think it's safe to say that I've traveled a rather unique path. Growing up in the Dallas area, the Cowboys were, and still are king. Doubly so in my family. Exhibit A, this is my grandpa: My grandpa loved the Cowboys. He picked out his casket solely based on which one looked closest to Cowboys blue (and, in perfect irony, the casket had eagles on it). Complete strangers would become his best friend if they mentioned they were Cowboys fans. He was proud to have both his sons, and even his ...
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Now, to be clear, I'd never encourage anyone to actually lay down their hard-earned American currency on a college football game. That being said, on the day that the picks podcast will go live at 9pm CT/10pm ET, I think it's worth going over just what in the world Eddie and I are talking about. Oh, and this knowledge can make you feel more at ease in joining this year's Pick 'Em which features some fantastic prizes. No space-bucks or real-bucks required. Plus, knowledge of the gambling ...
About a month ago, the fine folks at Rent Like a Champion handed me a very well-done and concise Notre Dame Football preview for us to share. God bless each and every one of them for their patience for me just getting around to it. You can download that season preview over at their site for free--all you have to provide is your email address. As we've been doing a lot of (re)introductions here at HLS, it's probably a good time to let y'all know about the longest running sponsor that we've ...
I can think of no better way to properly kick off our regular podcasting schedule than an episode with loads of technical issues. Thankfully, the majority of these were limited to the live stream as the amount of control I had over our Twitch stream degraded to zero midway through. Thankfully, we pulled the episode off and, despite Audition also throwing errors at me, the podcast audio will be devoid of (most of) the headaches we saw on the stream. It's a good thing too because I attended the ...
via GIPHY Did I ever introduce myself the first time? I'm a placeholder persona for the zany intersection of the general college football landscape and the very particular ethos residing under the Golden Dome. My first act on this glorious site stemmed from the belief that Twitter was the World's Best Sports Bar and sent #HLSrecap careening down the tracks to a land of lost productivity. To paraphrase the sage football pundit Ron Burgundy, "Sixty percent of the time, I'm serious every ...
What, your copy of NCAA '14 looks different?
Last year, I decided that the HLS Podcast needed to do something different to differentiate Shane & I from the crowd. The first phase of this was establishing a Twitch channel. I saw the live-streaming platform branching out into non-gaming endeavors like the NBA G-League and even Pro Wrestling. So why not college football? I'm definitely not the only one that felt this way as a certain society of banners recently did the same thing. While I'm not sure if we were the first college ...
Some people were born Notre Dame fans. They were bathed in the light of the golden years. Tanned and bronzed from the championships, the Heismans, and the fact that they are somewhere around 178 years old. I am not one of those children of the summer. Indeed, if I reflect back, I have a difficult time pinpointing the moment I became an Irish fan. There’s no obvious reason for it. I am a born and raised southerner. My parents are from the northeast. Sure, they’re Catholic, but my Dad’s a BC ...
Back in 2011, when I was pinged to write for HLS, I never imagined running the whole thing. Nor could I have envisioned still doing it seven years, a marriage, and two kids later (trust me, I've tried to quit twice). Yet here I still am and here we still stand since 2006. This latest iteration of HLS has by far been my favorite. Granted, we post less now. Our desire is to keep this at an obsessive hobby level so we don't lose our day jobs, family life, and sanity. However, that doesn't mean ...