What's good about this football season so far

The best thing so far this season is Notre Dame is bad. Really bad. Bad like the Huskies were when Gilbertson was the coach. Washington's excuse then was that there was poor recruiting under Neuheisel and Gilbertson was put in a tough spot. I don't believe this excuse and feel that had UW not abandoned Rick (and/or Rick could keep out of trouble) there never would have been this bad stretch for UW because Rick could win with the guys he had and nobody outcoaches him on GAMEday. Notre Dame has no excuse: they have had highly rated recruiting classes for several years. Tyrone Willingham's classes were pretty highly rated, and Charlie Weis's classes have been highly rated.

I should clarify that I have always hated Notre Dame. I hate how they are always overrated. I hate that they are always on TV. I hate that occasionally a good recruit from Washington who is Catholic will choose 4 years out in the middle of Indiana over Montlake. I hate that they had to make a rule about minimum wins to be eligible for BCS games because Notre Dame makes a BCS game if they win 6 games. I hate that Notre Dame is almost guaranteed 6 wins a season because they usually play that many teams that are horrible. They don't have to deal with the grind of playing a tough conference schedule. I hate Notre Dame because they produced Rick Mirer and inflicted him onto me for several years of awfulness:


I liked Bob Davies because Notre Dame wasn't very good while he was coaching. But, they finally fired him. Then they hired George O'Leary. I thought that was a great hire for Notre Dame because they would probably continue to suck under O'Leary. Then, they found out that O'Leary fabricated his resume and they un-hired him. I didn't like that because I was afraid they would get someone good with a second chance. Then they hired Tyrone Willingham and I was dejected. I regarded Willingham as the second best coach in the Pac-10 behind Rick. He took Stanford to a 9 win season season. Another season he took them to the Rose Bowl. Stanford! In the Rose Bowl! As I feared, Willingham took Notre Dame to a 10 win season right away. Then he had a couple down years. In his third season, Notre Dame won 6 games, but still went to a bowl game. At this time, Washington was looking for a coach. I was hoping that UW would re-hire Rick, but knew that would not happen. The next best thing would be if Notre Dame lost their mind and fired Willingham. Despite the fact that of Willingham's own recruits that redshirted, he only had sophomores that season, he was fired by Notre Dame. Washington hired Willingham right away. Jim Mora Jr. had just taken the Falcons to the playoffs and couldn't leave then so it was an easy call. The Huskies are getting much better after being completely decimated by the loss off Rick and the transition to Gilbertson.

Notre Dame hired Charlie Weis with to a big contract:

He has since gotten the stomach bypass surgery and his frontbutt is now down to the size of a Newfoundland.

So what did Charlie Weis do? Well he inherited Brady Quinn and Jeff Samardzija from Willingham. They were good enough as juniors to make the Irish pretty good. After ONLY 7 GAMES AS HEAD COACH Notre Dame gave Weis a 10 year, $40million contract extension.

Whuuuuuat?!!

They won 9 games and went to the Fiesta Bowl with those guys. Last year they started out well and were even ranked as high as #2. Ah, but #2 of a different sort was how they played at the end of the season as Notre Dame lost its last two games by at least 17 points.

This season, the coaching genius of Charlie Weis is really carrying Notre Dame. He is such an offensive master that until last week, the Irish had negative yards rushing for the season. Here's how the season has gone so far:
Georgia Tech 33- ND 3
Penn State 31 ND 10
Michigan 38-0 (pssst, they lost to Appalachan State...at home)
Michigan State 31- ND 14 (Weis told a group of boosters that they would never lose to MSU as long as he was the coach)
Purdue 33 ND 19
That is 0 and 5 without Samardzija and Brady Quinn. Weis needs the Quinn. At least Notre Dame doesn't have to worry about looking for a new coach though because they already committed to that 10 year $40M contract.


Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyaaaaaa!

It is almost GAMEtime for the Huskies vs. USC. You can't spell suck without usc so I'm revising my prediction:

UW 37
USC 35