May all the losses be forgot,
and never brought to mind.
May final second heartbreaks,
be gone til the end of time.

For Ole Notre Dame, my friends,
for Ole N. D.,
we’ll swig a cup of booze my friends,
to Ole N. D.

We all have toiled in the stream,
of med-i-o-cri-ty;
With Weis, Willingham, my friends
and “footbaw” coach Da-vie.

But now there’s a trusty leader friend!
With the W’s, and Irish pedigree!
And we’ll get RKGs, tough gentlemen,
and WIN for Ole N. D.!!!!

And surely you’ll buy your Kelly shirt
and surely one for me!
And we’ll cheers to the real return of glory
for Ole N. D.

For Ole Notre Dame, my friends,
for Ole N. D.,
we’ll swig a cup of booze my friends,
to the NEW N. D.

And we’ll take a right good-will draught, my friends
for the NEW N. D.!!!

Happy New Year HLS.

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If you can stomach it, here’s a look at ND over the “noughties” in “talkie” form. One of my 2010 resolutions was to lose some weight, so this was a beneficial exercise.

Enjoy?

2000

2001

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There’s not a lot that can be said on this site that hasn’t been said already when it comes to the utter disbelief we have in anything Urban Meyer says. For all the skewering and filleting of Michigan and Southern Cal on this site, only one program is lead by one man who gets the same level of vitriolic attention here as those two programs: Urban Meyer. And while we spent most of the day stuck in hellacious traffic, mentally penning our farewell and wishes of good luck to Mr. Meyer, seeking ways to find the high road while we also sought open road, we forgot one simple thing: Never trust Urban Meyer.

There are a lot of things that might actually be happening while Urban is busy letting the world know (with impeccable timing) that he’s leaving coaching and then, well, maybe not so much leaving coaching as manipulating the press for his own good. But whatever is actually happening, and whatever may actually be motivating his decision to leave coaching for his faith and family and then come back to coaching within a 24 hour period “for the players,” there’s only one thing we trust – the knowledge that Urban’s essentially playing dirty.

Should Meyer drop dead on the sidelines of the Sugar Bowl, or even actually suffer a serious, acute attack of some kind, then we’ll feel bad for him and his family. We’re human, so too is he. But there’s no way in hell we’re going to accept anything as “fact” if the only source of such “fact” is Urban Meyer’s mouth.

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Dying? Already dead? Because pretty soon you’re going to die from smoke inhalation, as USC has been burning non-stop for 3 years and you do nothing.

How much smoke indicates fire already? The Reggie Bush allegations? The ones that just kept happening over and over and over and getting more and more obvious? The time where he brings an armed thug to a meeting isn’t a tip-off at all? No? The minor violations? No, not enough? The Mayo stuff comes in? Okay, now you’re ‘looking into it’ for over a year and nothing’s happening? Now, Mcknight’s thing? Where he’s not traveling with the team because of his joy rides in a dealer-owned car? Is that finally enough for you to freaking do SOMETHING?

Maybe? I mean, c’mon, at this point it’s just getting stupid.

Mcknight is literally following in Bush’s footsteps – on and off the field. He’s the Trojans’ leader in the backfield. A dynamic runner. And off the field, he’s taking advantage and getting the perks.

After including a few remarks about how Bush talked him into going to USC when he announced a few years back (which is a no-no, and is documented HERE), and after his recruitment warranted a little extra scrutiny, Mcknight is taking that advice to heart, apparently. You can’t say he wasn’t paying attention I guess.

I’ve been burned before (ha, pun!) in thinking that the NCAA was actually going to do something. At this point, I doubt anything will happen ever. But it doesn’t make it right.

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“Abilities” now a good fit for never writing again.

David Haugh. Puh-lease.

I link to this crap so you can go and comment and rip him apart. Have at it.

Where to begin? Where to begin?

Let’s start here: Mr Haugh, you have no idea what Notre Dame is, what it means, and how it operates. Okay, given that we’ve now completely disqualified you from commenting on the topic, let’s check out a few specifics.

Let’s start with this gem:

“Don’t make the Big Ten wait because Delany won’t.”

Dude, the Big Televen has been waiting on ND since my freshman year (and that was a while ago). Didn’t happen then, ain’t gonna happen now. They’re not gonna wait? Are you kidding me? If they add another program now to even it up, and then 10 minutes later we say ‘hey, can we join?’, the Tweleven would probably boot the new kid out and make space for us. You’re nuts to think that the conference wouldnt let ND in. Pretty much any time. That’s not arrogance, that’s just fact. ND as a member is worth more to them than you can even imagine. And it’s worth less to ND than you can ever imagine.

You even state this same opinion:

With due respect to Missouri, Pittsburgh and Rutgers, no potential additional member benefits the Big Ten more than Notre Dame

So, let me get this straight: ND should hurry up because the Televen won’t wait for us, but ND has all the power because there’s no one else that will help the conference more than ND. Hmmmm, yes, quite logical…

Next…

The Notre Dame that Swarbrick and other idealists describe is a place where no coach could have resisted the chance to walk the same sideline Rockne and Leahy and Parseghian walked. But it hasn’t been that place since Davie and Willingham and Weis walked there too. That’s the point.

Wrong. The people that really know Notre Dame know that not all coaches would just drop everything to take the job. Especially top-tier coaches in good situations with a lot of success. Tell me my man, how often do top-tier big program coaches that are winning leave to go somewhere else to start over? Ummm, never? That’s right. This has nothing to do with ND not being a top job. It’s clearly one of the top CFB jobs in the country (if you consider money, exposure, ability to get talent and tradition as key criteria). It’s not THE ONLY really good job, and it’s probably not the best when you talk about lifestyle (the way-over-considered weather angle – half the programs in the country are in cold weather climates – and the need to recruit nationally) and scrutiny, but it’s certainly a top job. You and other media guys that ‘know’ things love to ascribe to “Notre Dame” that we all think that our coaching job is so much better than everyone else’s. The reality is that we know we have a special place, and that there are parts of ND that make the job super attractive to some people, and really not interesting to others. For example, Urban Meyer can’t play gang members at ND and can’t have his entire team in jail at ND and get away with it. Hence, it’s not that attractive to him. The truth is somewhere in the middle. ND is a top job, but not the end-all-be-all of coaching for all people. For some it is, but for others it’s not. Most fans know this, and are fine with it. Just because non-fans say that we believe this fallacy of ND being the dream job of every coach that’s ever been born, doesn’t mean that we do.

University leaders need to learn from the lesson of hiring Kelly and let it guide them in deciding whether to pursue Big Ten membership. Out with self-aggrandizement, in with self-awareness.

And this is where you go way wrong. I mean, could you understand ND any less? Being independent is a matter of pride and tradition at Notre Dame, yes. Can’t dispute it. But saying it’s all about self-aggrandizement at the expense of awareness is just a cheap shot. (You stink and your skin is pimply too, so there!) Do you have any clue about how ND operates? Its mission? Its values? ND remaining independent is core to the identity of the SCHOOL. The institution. Not just the football program. Joining the Big 10 doesn’t just compromise a long-standing tradition of independence in football, it compromises the ability of the school and institution to fulfill its mission. I know you don’t get this, you pretty much can’t.

And then you make the leap that fully proves that you literally have NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE FREAKING TALKING ABOUT!

Don’t kid yourself. This is solely a football argument.

Dude, you literally have no clue. How you’re not working in the mail room is beyond me.

The reason ND was considering joining the conference in the late 90’s was because of ACADEMICS. Resources, consortiums, etc. The reason ND didn’t join was because of FOOTBALL (and all the alums and students, etc that wanted to maintain that independent identity). This is in no way solely a football argument. ND’s football program is extremely important to the identity of the school, but it is NOT the school.

The independence argument is both a football and non-football one. In the 90’s, it was the non-football side that caused the flirtation, and the football side won out. Today, both sides are anti-Big-Televen. Sorry man, it just ain’t happening when all sides are aligned.

And your assertion that a ‘philosophical line’ has been crossed is just as full of bunk as the rest of your article. ND belongs to the Big East in name only. The school isn’t a formal member of the conference. We just get to hop in and join them for non-football sports. The alliance doesn’t really go beyond that. There are no other ties. Did you seriously do any research for this article?

A key thing Notre Dame must consider: Realistically, the Irish could gain easier access to the Bowl Championship Series games as a member of the Big Ten than as an independent.

So if we completely ignore the entire identity and mission of the school, and just look at football, as you start to do here, your argument still falls flat. First, your statement above is hardly fact. ND has a sweet BCS deal right now. A highly ranked 2 or even 3-loss ND team can still qualify for a BCS game. Without winning a conference, there’s literally NO guarantee like that with the Televen. How does that make it easier? I don’t get it. If ND comes into November with 2 losses as a conference member, we’re probably behind 1-2 teams in the pecking order, which likely leaves us out. In a conference of one, we’re in. Can you do that math?

And your motivation for this need to affiliate is that we’d then have a conference championship to play for mid-season when we have 2 losses? Two things on that. 1) You assume that ND’s subpar record of late is because a 2-loss team, mid-season, has nothing to play for. ARE YOU ON CRACK? HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF BCS BOWLS? OR MAYBE HOW ABOUT JUST WANTING TO WIN? OR EVEN BASE PRIDE???? There are plenty of things to play for at that point. Just because recent teams (and their coaches) haven’t performed later in the year, doesn’t mean this is an institutional issue. It means we needed a new coach. Check. 2) What’s the message sent, if we make this move for this reason? “Eh, we give up on being a school that aims for BCS Bowls and MNCs. We’re just aiming for a nice Conference Championship to settle for”? That’s just weak. That’s about as anthithetical to ND as atheism. ND stakeholders, regardless of the realism in today’s world, aim for something higher. We push for that higher goal. Yeah, it’d be easier to win with no restrictions. We want to win with them. Doesn’t make it easier, but making it EASIER isn’t the point. Doing it in the right way IS the point.

But you’d have no clue. You went to Ball State.

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I figure, hey, I’ve finally not got a ton of work this morning, and, frankly, neither do you, so let’s do a roundup!

The Roundup:

• Nobody was really paying attention to this when it was happening because it was happening in Minnesota, and they practically play Canadian Rules football there, but it’s still sort of happening and apparently really could happen.
• Feel like the “search” for a new DC at Notre Dame is dragging on. Georgia fans are charter members of that club and welcome you and your dues.
• Bad Kermit was on the Radio talking Cubs. In Chicago. On an actual, legally licensed station.
• Zibby
• Trial lawyers in Alabama realize that it’s not every day that Nick Saban will have their team in the national championship game.
• If you don’t enjoy winning, well then you won’t enjoy the God Blesse USofA! (HT: Orson)
• Twitter was “hacked” last night by “Iran.” Nobody noticed because nobody actually goes to the Twitter website to use Twitter. Lesson Learned: Iran’s run by a bunch of incompetents with a penchant for sex slaves and booze they get to hide behind a facade of religious zealotry (regardless of whether or not “Iran” actually did the hacking).
• Prime Rib Primer.
• Arizona Teacher takes 40 Choir Boys to Hooters. What could go wrong?
• Ah. Finally. Some explanation as to why I’ll never look like a NFL player. Now, where are those bon bons?
• I think Conquest Chronicles is less interested in this bowl season that we at Her Loyal Sons happen to be, but here’s a bunch of stuff about their Walnut Bowl or whatever it is.
• We all just knew the Fiesta Bowl was too good to be true.

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Since ND isn’t bowling (sadly in my eyes) I thought I’d put together our perspective on the upcoming bowl season and what you should watch, and who you should support as an ND fan (and why). Feel free to disagree, this is just one blogger’s take on a select set of bowls…

St. Petersburg Bowl Presented by Beef O’Brady’s. UCF vs. Rutgers.

Support: Something more exciting. The battle here is against boredom of Purdue-like proportions. Go out and play in the snow or something instead. Anything sponsored by “Beef O’Brady’s” should be banned. Forever.

R+L Carriers Bowl. Southern Miss vs. Middle Tennessee

Support: This really depends on the strength of your affinity for general directions. Personally I’ve always preferred “Yonder”. Always seems awesome and romantic. In this game, Southern has a good ring to it. Typically means warmth, vacation, and a thick accent. Middle is kind of bland. No one really wants to be in the middle. Plus, DMQ is from the South, so we’re going with supporting Southern Miss. Go SOUTH, beat MIDDLE!

MAACO Las Vegas Bowl. Oregon State vs. BYU

Support: I think you have to go with the Mormons in the City of Sin. I mean, taking the Beavers in the middle of Vegas is just wrong. (although many do, zing!) Let’s support the mission-takers as they try to squash the evil inherent in Vegas. Yes! All that bad fun, drinking, hot dice and drinking is NO GOOD! Go Cougars! Beat Beavers and all licentiousness!

Meineke Car Care Bowl. Pitt vs. North Carolina

Support: Pitt fuh sho. A strong Pitt helps the strength of the ND schedule, and makes them more likely to join the Big Tweleven and add another L to the Skunkbears annually. So cheer on the Panthers for both reasons.

Emerald Bowl. Boston College vs. USC.

Support: Ugh. Let’s root for a permanent rain delay. No one here should ever win again as far as I’m concerned.

AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl. Texas A&M vs. Georgia

Support: The economy! Because really. Advo-FREAKING-Care V100? THAT’S a Bowl sponsor? Really? We need to support a turn-around here folks. Because that means money starts flowing, and that means prices on Bowl Sponsorships go up, and that means that AdvoCare (whatEVER it is) will no longer be able to afford a bowl sponsorship. And that’s a good thing. Because when a company with such a lame name that no one knows sponsors a bowl, it brings all of CFB down just a notch. So let’s root for a big old economic recovery in 2010, and get a REAL bowl sponsor like Mr. Clean in there!

EagleBank Bowl. UCLA vs. Temple

Support: Gotta go with Temple here. Not only because of the great turnaround this year, but also because UCLA has actually been trying to claim some kind of football legacy lately. And that’s just weird.

Bell Helicopter Armed Forces. Houston vs. Air Force

Support: Now this one seems obvious at first. It’s a freaking armed FORCEs bowl sponsored by a maker of things that fly in the AIR. But, but hold on there a second. It’s being held in Texas. Might make you think for a second that maybe your support swings the other way, but, but…oh, wait. Tons of military from and stationed in Texas. Air Force wins our support! Go Mavericks!

Brut Sun Bowl. Oklahoma vs. Stanford

Support: Another tough one. First, you have to consider that Bob Stoops messed with our heads during the search. Ding one on Oklahoma. But then you have to think that Harbaugh pretended like we wanted him, when we didn’t. Ding Stanford. Then you give OK points because they’re much less pompous (yes, I know, Pot. Kettle. Black), but then you hate Stanford more for us losing to them. And because they have Harbaugh as their coach…yeah, OK it is. Clearly.

Chick-fil-A Bowl . Virginia Tech vs. Tennessee

Support: Va Tech in a second. Kiffin is a Grade-A d-bag. Plus, a Hokie is way cooler than a Volunteer.

Outback Bowl. Northwestern vs. Auburn

Support: This one was a bit tougher. On the one hand, NW does things right. They maintain academic standards, have good kids that stay out of trouble, etc. But at the same time, their coach called ND out for no reason other than spiteful jealousy this year. “Wah wah, why doesn’t anyone in Chicago care about NW football?” Yeah, let’s go Auburn.

Capital One Bowl. Penn State vs. LSU

Support: It’s kind of tough to pick either here, but I gotta go with JoePa and PSU over LSU. Why? Simply because I was taught to respect my elders. And especially the walking dead. Because they’ll bite your face off if you don’t respect them.

Konica Minolta Gator Bowl. AKA “We Have No Chance in Keeping Up with Modern Camera Companies So we’ll Sponsor this Bowl Gator Bowl”. West Virginia vs. Florida State

Support: WVU. Bill Stewart is an aw-shucks nice guy who may or may not have any clue on how to coach. But he picked up where RR left off and has done okay. And the more he wins, the more the myth of RR is debunked. So rooting for Bill and WVU is rooting for a nice guy and against RR. Win-win to me. Plus, Bowden was trying to cheat to catch up/beat JoePa on the all-time Wins list, and that’s just lame. So let’s send him out with a loss.

Rose Bowl Game presented by Citi. Ohio State vs. Oregon

Support: Tough one as Oregon is a team led by a dude that sucker-punched a dude after the game as over, and Ohio State is, well, Ohio State. I gotta go with Oregon here no matter what though. Ohio State, its fans especially, suck almost as much as Michigan sucks. So gotta go Ducks here. I also like a new coach with the last name Kelly having success (wonder why?), so gotta go Ducks.

Allstate Sugar Bowl. Florida vs. Cincinnati

Support: Mmmmmmm, sugar. Tough at first glance. Do we want Cincy to fall apart to prove that it was all about Kelly? Or do we want to see Tim Tebow cry and Urban Meyer head to the hospital for being so grief-stricken again? Tebow was just so sad, I almost felt bad for hi…wait, millions of dollars and glory and fame and THAT girlfriend? And Meyer’s been rewarded time and again for doing it the wrong way. Forget it, let’s support Cincy in their quest to prove that Kelly built a winner there – built it up so strong that they simply destroy UF and the LIAR.

NOTE: All BCS bowl games on Fox are a disaster. Pay attention this season, you’ll be SO happy when they lose these games in a few years. LORD, I hate that they have all these good games. ANGER.

International Bowl. South Florida vs. Northern Illinois

Support: First, “International”? Canada? And even moreso, Toronto? That’s as International as CFB gets? Second, another battle of the directions. South beat out Middle earlier, but the North needs to even things out here. NIU it is.

AutoZone Liberty Bowl. Arkansas vs. East Carolina

Support: A toss-up at first glance. Kinda like ARK because Mallet bailed on RR and the Skunkbears, which wins him big points in our eyes. But, there’s a Holtz leading ECU, and he’s been doing a good job at helping them turn things around. Gotta go with a Friend over an Enemy of my Enemy. Plus, they’re the Pirates. Argh, matey, beat Arkansas.

Valero Alamo Bowl. Michigan State vs. Texas Tech

Support: MSU. Helps our SOS, shows that our sked this year wasn’t all that weak (it was actually fairly top-tier in terms of difficulty, thank you very much), and will help our computer numbers more when we whomp MSU next year.

Note: BTW, on the sked. ND ended up with a SOS ranked #31 by Sagarin. That’s not some weak schedule loaded with weak opponents. Plus, Pitt, BC, USC, Stanford, Navy, UCONN, MSU, and Nevada all are in bowl games. That’s 8 out of 12 opponents in bowls people!!!! That’s not a cupcake sked any freaking way you slice it. This is another reason why I think ND is close to ‘being there’. We went 6-6 against a tough schedule, with a one-dimensional team, and were in every game down to the wire. This is why I think we’re on the cusp of being a solid, perennial Top 20 team. We may be a few years from MNC/BCS, but we’re on the bubble of ‘being back’ regularly.

Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Boise State vs. TCU

Support: Virtual learning. Isn’t it kinda NUTS that two of the top undefeated teams of the nation are playing in University of Phoenix Stadium? A stadium named for a school that doesn’t exist in a physical form ANYWHERE? Yay Interwebs.

FedEx Orange Bowl. Iowa vs. Georgia Tech

Support: Georgia Tech. We like Paul Johnson, and Tech seems to do things the right way for the most part. Iowa football is also god-awful boring except when they beat Penn State all the time.

Note: This bowl takes place in “Land Shark Stadium”. WTF?

GMAC Bowl. Central Michigan vs. Troy Mobile, Ala.

Support: First, why is this bowl interspersed with all the BCS bowls at the end of the cycle? This makes zero sense. It’s freaking CMU vs. Troy. It’s in Mobile, Alabama. And it’s the last bowl before the BCS MNC game? WTF Part II. Second, you root for CMU. Why? Because we stole their coach from Cincy who stole that same coach from CMU, and now is stealing the replacement of our new coach from CMU. Brutal. They deserve a win for providing such a good training ground for coaches to move on from. They’re like the Pittsburgh Pirates – a farm team that’s not a farm team.

Citi BCS National Championship Game. Texas vs. Alabama.

Support: This one’s tough. Alabama seems like the better team, as Texas hasn’t looked amazing all year and McCoy is way over-rated (yes, LH, way overrated). And it’s easy to root against Texas given all their recent success, and Mack Brown’s crazy ability to recruit the state like mad. But at the same time, Alabama likes to claim 44 MNC’s, and that’s just obnoxious. So it makes you kinda want to root against them to keep ND’s thin lead in total “Championships” there. But then again, maybe you just cheer for Bama, because even if they lose they’re going to claim one anyway, and we know Texas won’t do that….nah, cheer for Texas here, I don’t want Bama claiming 45.

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but to no avail.

“I tried to lock them in my office, but they wouldn’t have any part of that,” Kelly quipped. You know I put my best pitch on to try to keep them. I understand they’ve got a great opportunity. … It just means that their sideline passes are going to be more expensive when they come back.”

Though he was joking around a bit, I’m sure Coach made a serious pitch to the two, just on the off-chance that they’d change their minds. Course no one, including Kelly, expected or expect any change there, but you gotta take a shot at guys like Jimmy and Golden…

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In his introductory PC, newly introduced Coach Kelly alluded to his “media consultant”, or coach, or PR person or publicist or whatever.

My media consultant had all these notes for me, and I’m supposed to pay attention to all these notes that were drawn up for me, but there’s one thing that has driven me through my career is that I speak from my heart. I’m passionate about it, and I really want to talk to everybody out there about why I am so honored to be the head football coach here at Notre Dame.

Forget that we kinda like Kelly’s off the cuff, yet very polished, nature in front of the Press (refreshing after Weis’ foot-in-mouth-isms). But apparently, this media person isn’t great at his/her job, and/or Kelly isn’t great at delivering on what’s prepared for him. Because this ‘joke’ just didn’t work.

You know, there are some things that [Chuck Martin] needs to know. First of all, Father John’s salary is what he would get, and as Lou Holtz once said, he didn’t know it but Father has a vow of poverty, so if Chuck is willing to come for free, we’ll certainly talk Saturday night.

And I tried real hard to get that line in. That was the media stuff that was written for me. You can see it didn’t go over so good.

Cricket. Cricket.

We were thinking it had to be the former, given Coach’s pretty solid public speaking skills. And when you’re willing to call yourself (and that media consultant) out for the huge groan throughout the room, that makes me even more sure it was all about the prepared notes just plain old sucking. Cuz really, that was bad.

I wonder who this mystery person/firm could be, and whether or not we can hire them to, uh, help us out. Yeah. Anyone know? We have no clue. A guess…

Yeah, I saw Borat randomly on the US of A Network this past weekend.

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Louis Nix III committed to a coach-less ND because of his love for the school, and because of some good recruiting work by RB Coach Tony Alford.

Coach Kelly recognized what everyone should. That if you can bring in a BADASS like Louis Nix, from Florida, out of the hands of Miami and UF, when your team doesn’t even have a head coach, you should be hired IMMEDIATELY by the new coach.

Good work Coach Kelly, Congrats Coach Alford. Now get out there and get us some dudes to play alongside the world’s most dominating DT gentleman scholar ever.

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The press conference was great. The approach seems like a great fit. Of course, wins is the ultimate barometer.

But Coach Kelly scored some major points here, being the coolest coach ever by re-tweeting DMQ’s tweet about his AM breakfast ‘experience’ this weekend.

Awesome, coach, awesome. Never expected to get a response. Way too cool to get one.

Come do an interview here sometime. (Yeah, we’ll lob the softballs. We sold out before we even launched. It’s all good.)

UPDATE: It’s gone. Poof. Ether. You guys must have been sending him an awful lot of bacon.

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Coach Kelly tweeted that his house was egged while they were back in Cincy over the weekend packing.

HA.

1987 Junior High called, wants its students back!

The evidence…

The perpetrators…

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Sometimes people don’t heed warnings. Sometimes they poke. They prod. They keep pushing, battering, attacking in small ways. Nothing that does too too much damage. Nothing that can ever shake the core. But they just keep at it. It’s just annoying. It doesn’t really do any damage.

But then, something starts to change. Something stirs a few hundred feet beneath the earth. Maybe a tremor here. A tremor there. Some force in the universe has had enough. Some unmeasurable metric has been measured.

And then, at last, the Giant awakes.

And wreaks havoc, laying waste to enemies in the name of its people!!!!!!

Notre Dame is a Sleeping Giant. It’s certainly seemed that way the last few years. The fits and starts, and the pain associated with the loss of what could have been, the attacks by the haters (and even those that profess to be supporters) seems to be a sign that the Giant has been disturbed from his deep slumber. The attacks were hot and heavy in 2007, but somehow seemed to come to a peak this fall. The Giant became restless.

And from my view, the hiring of Brian Kelly has finally gotten the Giant to the point where he’s about to sit up, look around, and think “It’s time for me to destroy something”.

And this is good.

ND is a sleeping Giant. It’s a program with the foundation to be excellent. Until Weis, the program lacked effort and exposure. It lacked talent. Check. Check. Check. No more. With Weis, ND only lacked the results, which kept the Giant in its slumber. Just on the other side of being fully awake. Fully aware.

Mark my words, Brian Kelly will wake that Giant. College football foes should run for the hills, hide in their shanties, because Notre Dame football, the sleeping Giant, is coming.

Finally, this program is complete. Facilities match the best in the world. Support from fans and alumni far surpass any other program. Financial resources and human resources abound. And now, a leader with the tools to succeed: significant experience as a Head Coach in the college game. significant experience WINNING. a strong understanding and respect for what ND stands for. a no-nonsense approach and a DEMAND for excellence. experience on both sides of the ball. and the Irish name to boot.

The hiring of Brian Kelly as the HC at ND is the turning point in this program. The pieces are in place. The Michigans, USCs, the whoevers of the world should run and hide. Notre Dame football is an awakened Giant.

Better run for cover, because this Giant is pissed.

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ohmygod, ohmygod, ohmygodohmygodomygdomgomgomgomg
omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg…

I think I agree with Brian Cook on something.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just looked outside. It’s not armageddon. I just called Bo, and he said that Hell hasn’t frozen over yet…so I’m not sure what’s going on…

But in the end, there are a lot of fools out there. And sometimes they get called out by even bigger fools. And I have to acknowledge it when it happens.

But again:
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Note: What I’m agreeing with here is the mocking of the extremely ridiculous assertions that some ND fans make, with a complete lack of facts to back them up. There’s a certain group out there that insists that they ‘know’ everything, and they insist they can comment intelligently on things about which they know not a thing. And they look stupid. I don’t agree with Cook that a coach like Stoops or Saban or Meyer just wouldn’t come to South Bend (I love how Cook acts like Ann Arbor is some paradise – HA, suburb of DE-TROIT) – I believe they would in a moment with the right situation and mutual interest – but I do agree with his mocking some ND fans for their ridiculous comments. That is quite deserved. But note: Michigan (sucks) fans are at least 10 times worse. Regularly. Daily. Minute-ly? Yes.

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Yep, we’re the very, very last to ‘report’ this. And very proud of it.

Not once did we announce some other candidate (well, we did try to get the “Louis Nix as Player-Coach” thing going). We didn’t just keep guessing, calling it fact, and we didn’t make anything up and ‘report’ it. (Yep, I’m tooting the HLS horn here, because I think we’re 1 of 3 that didn’t get all mixed up in it.) MANTRA was great, it served its purpose. I’m really happy it’s gone.

We’re 1 for 1 in calling who this would be, cuz we’re calling it now: Brian Kelly.

Lots more to talk about – with the search and the selection – but for now…Welcome to the Notre Dame family Coach Kelly!

(ps – if Kelly Green isn’t the formal ND fan color for games now – if we can’t rally the fans to all wear that color now- it will never, ever happen)

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