Was anyone stirred to their soul by yesterday's big Notre Dame victory over the Duke Blue Devils? Did anyone feel the echoes being woken up? The ghosts of the Four Horsemen and Knute Rockne and George "I Swear the Kid Wasn't Mine" Gipp rising again?
Funny how lame all that rousing, mythic B.S. starts sounding when a team is 2-9 and just happy to finally get a home win, isn't it? Here's the reality - Notre Dame is 2-9, and their wins were against a so-so UCLA and a typically dreadful Duke. They couldn't even beat Navy, a team they'd owned since fricking 1963.
Yet Charlie Weis doesn't seem to be on the hot-seat. Ty Willingham was shown the door after only three years, one of which featured 10 wins. Weis has now coached three years himself, and is 2-9 in his third. Does this mean Notre Dame has adjusted its expectations downward? Are the Irish faithful now suddenly willing to accept being mired at the bottom of the college football swamp with the Dukes and Temples of the world?
Or perhaps Notre Dame fans, good solid Midwestern folk that many of them are, just like Charlie cause he's fat and white. They surely seem to have bought into the idea that Charlie needs time to get this current crop of recruits up to snuff. So, one bad season is tolerable, if good old Charlie says things will be better next year.
I personally don't care if Notre Dame is ever any good again. The only reason anyone talks about them is because Boomers have this silly, misty-eyed attachment to things they remember being good when they were younger. Like Irish football. And Saturday Night Live. And 60 Minutes and Rolling Stone magazine. It doesn't matter to them that all those things suck now - it comforts them to believe that these vaunted institutions are somehow eternally relevant. But none of them are. Notre Dame football, like the network news, only matters to people who are old and out of touch. Charlie Weis is like Katie Couric - caretaker of a tradition that is all-but-dead.
Congrats to me for figuring out a way to work a Charlie Weis-Katie Couric analogy into a post. I can now cross that off my checklist of things to do before I die.
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Comments (1)
Dan,Are you having a... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Thomas Maher | November 19, 2007 2:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Dan,
Are you having a bad day? Is there anybody or
anything in this world you like, let alone love? It's been a long time since I've read such a bitter-nasty article-post.
Were you an redhead orphan beaten daily?
Just curious, who or what is worthy today of
your approval.
I'am going to resist the temptation to say
"you cant die soon enough" since you brought up
the subject of your demise. But really, chill out. You sound like a real hate monger.
1. Posted by Thomas Maher | November 19, 2007 2:38 PM |
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Posted on November 19, 2007 14:38