It still hurts.

The Roundup:

• Bob Davie is sitting tall on his high horse today after the Irish got their butts whooped by LSU. Apparently Davie forgot his own personal records at ND, including the fact that he had the worst single-season start in the history of the program, or that he lost a Fiesta Bowl appearance by some ridiculous score to powerhouse Oregon State 17,245-9 - and it wasn’t even that close. Hey Bob, how’s that coaching career working out these days? Oh.
• Meanwhile, besides that whole “actually winning games” thing, there is plenty that differentiates Bob Davie and Charlie Weis. Probably chief among them is this: Charlie isn’t satisfied with the sorts of records that Davie used to brag about.
• While the Irish begin their offseason and work their way back towards exuberant, hyper-level over-expectations, Columbus, OH is working on a disaster response plan in the event that Ohio State actually wins the National Championship.
• The Rock Report puts on their sober, hind-sight glasses for a dose of reality against the pre-season expectations for the Notre Dame Football Team, 2006 Edition.
• Speaking of sober, Gary Barnett really needs to lay off the fire water. Calling the Minnesota job “intriguing” is like calling the girl with head-gear “hot for a girl with head-gear.”
• Kenny Mayne is apparently not long for The Dear Leader of Sports. I’m not surprised he’s gonna get the boot. He always seemed to get that he’s sort of ridiculous in a dancing-circus-bear sort of way. That’s probably what got him fired. ESPN is too self-important to get that they’re just a big circus.

That’s about it, except for this nice little bit from HeyJennySlater on the 50 Most Loathsome People in CFB:

42. Craig James
Charges: A cross between the high-school class clown and the douchebag uncle who embarrasses you at family gatherings and then chides you for not having a sense of humor, the former tailback trivializes games with his mere presence. Greedily sucks the gravitas out of even the most important games by veering off into barely relevant tangents and stories of his days at SMU; God forbid he gets assigned a lesser-conference game, which he’ll probably just ignore entirely so that he can turn the whole thing into his own personal open-mic night at the Improv. Played for SMU during what would’ve been the height of the booster scandal that later earned the Mustangs the NCAA death penalty, yet somehow nobody ever asks him about this.
Exhibit A: Made even hulking man-child Aaron Taylor look like the pinnacle of wisdom and conscientiousness when they were paired up in ABC’s studio last season.
Sentence: Knocked back to a newly formed Lincoln Financial “B” team alongside play-by-play announcer Chuck Amato and sideline reporter Star Jones.

Amen.

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