Friday Roundup: The “Probably Not Too Interesting” Edition

We do these Friday Roundups to give you, the Notre Dame football fan, some knowledge about and views into the college football world so that you, the Notre Dame Football fan, will be prepared for the weekend, when, inevitably, one or two of the stories will come up in polite conversation during one of your game watches, or black-tie dinners, or movie production meetings, or international espionage missions.

Unfortunately, as with any Purdue week, we find ourselves struggling to to serve up a steaming cup o'interesting because everything seems to be enveloped in a cold, clammy veil of boring. Purdue has that effect on things. They make everything boring. It's sort of like how Michigan (sucks!) tends to make things suck more, except not nearly as compelling.

Anyway, here's the roundup in case you don't have any IEEE standards to review in your spare time:

• Last week, James Aldridge averaged 4 yards per carry for 17 of his carries. He averaged 43 yards per carry for his other carry. Also and this is just incredible/sad, ND's juniors and seniors have gained a total of 33 yards.
• Bonger tries to explain why we feel so differently about Weis versus Davieham. Nobody's going to listen anyway.
• There's one Purdue blog on the entire internets, and they've got a bit of a sense of humor. After seeing our bit about Purdue being boring, they renamed the sight, briefly, to "Bored Sports." Anyway, he's not entirely sure Purdue's going to have a cake walk.
• We love to hate Whitlock, but sometimes he seems to be the only guy in the mainstream media that gets it.
• Ever heard the one about the scorpion and the frog? Meet the scorpion.
• The guys at Rakes of Mallow are all "big time" now that they got interviewed by The Observer. They also haven't fully embraced their nerdiness.
• Clausen speaks! But you'll need to click on this link using IE because UND.com is still getting familiar with this whole "website thing."

I could link more, but Purdue week is a buffet of tedium, and I can barely stand another bite right now.

The most interesting man in the world denies any knowledge of Purdue Football for fear of losing his title.