“His biggest win was a close loss to USC.”

Can’t remember who said it (anyone know?), but sums it up pretty well.

“Nobody knows Notre Dame football like Tim Prister.” — REGIS PHILBIN

Best. Headline. Ever.

Is this an affiliate of Trash Talk at Emptywheel now? Cool.

So nice of ND to aid Snodfart’s Gerhart in his quest for a Heisman. That could be Weis’ biggest achievement if Gerhart actually wins it.

I wish they could have won a couple of big games this year, just enough to keep them inconsequential, and maybe they would’ve kept Weis another year. Nothing gives me more pleasure than watching Notre Dame fans cry in their beers… well except maybe Dallas Cowboy fans or Duke basketball fans or Yankees fans or Lakers fans. May they all be sent to a special place in Hell, where they are forced sniff Tom Landry’s hat for eternity.

This book is satire, right? RIGHT?

With an Afterward by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.

That’s what Mr. Biscuitbarrel said, when I asked him who Gerry Faust is.

The sharks are circling in South Bend…word on the street is that Weis had already cleaned out his office before he even headed for Palo Alto, that he canceled his post-Stanford recruiting trip, and his assistants are calling up NFL teams looking for work.

I’d be shocked at this point if Weis makes it to Monday evening before the ax falls hard.

Everybody always rags on poor Gerry Faust, but if it weren’t for his lackluster tenure ND would not have been so shitty that season ticket holders wouldn’t have just given tickets away to anybody who wanted them which allowed a young little Ugluk to actually see his first and only Div.1 football game, even thought it was A) Notre Dame and B)versus Navy, but to a 5 year old it didn’t turn out to matter anyway since the only thing I really remember was dropping my hot dog when a drunk guy in front of us spilled his beer on me. Oh, and it was kinda cold too. So, two things I guess.

Faust fever – Catch it! Modern coaches could learn a lot from Faust, like picking your recruiting targets based on the top twenty high school all-americans that he read about in Parade Magazine. If that’s not real dedication to mediocrity, I don’t know what is.

Seconded.

The book itself has the best title since “The Other Guy Blinked: How Pepsi Won the Cola Wars” or at least since “The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush.”

At the beginning of each NCAA season I build a little shrine and pray and hope that ND somehow goes to some bowl game (and which team doesn’t these days?) so we can all watch them get blown right-the-fuck-out of the stadium on national teevee….

Also, take the Palin-quiz! Thinking out-of-the-box is a must!

Newsweek

I refuse to take any Palin-quiz that omits the word “also”.

also…

too….

Goddammit!

I use “also” all too much. Now you have to remind me that that puts me in a “class” with Mme. Palin.

Shit.

I saw the tail end of that game out of self-preservation and could not feel sorry for Charlie Weis, not enough to root for him against Stanford. I was closer to feeling sorry for Mark Mangino, but he is the enemy.

(I saw Stanford in the Elite Eight game against Rhode Island in the days of Mark Madsen and Co. and in the Final Four game last year against UConn. They have great shtick. I was troubled by the thought that at least some of the women on the dance team were future Wall Streeters)

The contrast of the Stanford shtick and the Oklahoma shtick at that Women’s Final Four was really a sight to behold. The Oklahoma rooting squad was so clearly disciplined and spit and polish.

I had to look up Gerry Faust. I think this whole thing is one elaborate satire.

After not vetting George O’Leary properly, and the rush to fire Tyrone Willingham? No sympathy for Notre Dame from me (and I do hate USC that much). I hope they have to call Gerry Faust out of retirement because everyone else said no.

Satire?? That would never happen on this blog!