We all know Lou Holtz was the last homerun hire, but why? It's easy to understand why the choices were slim and none -- bad pun -- when Weis got the nod. After 2 coaches and 8 years of mediocrity, the ND job had lost a lot of its luster, but how did it get to be that way? It's a pattern of settling.

I saw this article on O'Leary from back in the day, and it still stings. How did we go from Lou Holtz and NC talk every year to an internal promotion of Bob Davie, hiring of a mediocre...

The university's official press release:

Weis will not be retained as Notre Dame football coach

University of Notre Dame head football coach Charlie Weis will not be retained, University director of athletics Jack Swarbrick announced today (Nov. 30).

“We have great expectations for our football program, and we have not been able to meet those expectations,” Swarbrick said. “As an alumnus, Charlie understands those...

CW knew exactly what he was going to do, since the day he became Notre Dame's head football coach.

1. CW left a highly successful NFL team (New England Patriots) to become the head coach of a moribund college football team. Why would he do that? Money!!!!

2. CW promised the world would, once again, be Notre Dame's oyster. He did over and over again, from day #1. Remember, 6-5, nor 6-6, is not good enough. The implication was that Notre Dame would win national championships....

Let's talk endgame. It is safe to assume that Charlie Weis has coached his last game. The administration has the ball now and a fumble would be disastrous.

I wanted to write a blog to break down the positives and negatives and let the readers fill in the gaps in the comments section below.

To Bowl or not to Bowl?

What is the best case scenario for how the coaching change goes down? A tougher question than many want to believe it is. Nobody wants...

So what? 11.18.2009



So what? FOLLOW THAT PLANE!!!

Yep. It started! The obsessive Notre Dame Football fans are already following the jet to airports conveniently located near successful college football programs. Can’t say I blame them because I don’t blame the university administration for doing the due diligence.

We are in, again, a situation of perverse frustration. We...