Phoenix, AZ - Bob Davie, former head coach of football at the University of Notre Dame and current analyst for ABC on ESPN or ESPN on ABC or EASBPCN, as the cool kids like to call it, set a world record today when he withdrew his name from consideration for a record-setting number of collegiate football head coaching positions.

Observers were stunned as Davie withdrew himself from consideration for 8 jobs in under 15 seconds. Oddly, nobody had asked him if he was interested in the jobs, but Davie found a sports journalist from Arizona Republic walking into a Walmart in Phoenix, and before the journalist could place his hands over his ears in an “earmuff” fashion and start humming the theme song to The Smurfs, Bob Davie withdrew himself from consideration for the following jobs:

• University of Miami
• Michigan State
• North Carolina
• North Carolina State
• Arizona State
• Iowa State
• Alabama
• Washington

Oddly, the Michigan State, North Carolina, and Iowa State jobs had already been filled before Bob Davie withdrew his name from consideration. Also of note, despite it being completely understandable if it were to occur, the current Head Coach of Football at Washington, has not been fired. When HLS asked Washington’s coach, Ty Willingham, what he thought of Bob Davie removing his name from consideration for the Head Coaching job at Washington, Willingham missed an easy 2-footer and then asked, “Why? What have you heard?”

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