Someone at Notre Dame should probably actually sue ESPN at this point. From ESPN's Team Preview of Notre Dame (done in conjunction with Blue Ribbon College Football Yearbook): Not only, however, was there a thought, there was an entire thought process, which Weis described in detail on Feb. 8, nine days after hiring Jon Tenuta as an assistant head coach in charge of the defense, a move that demoted former assistant head coach Bill Smith to the athletics community relations staff. To ...
Lazy Sports "Journalists"
Matt Zemek Lives in Glass House, Throws Stones, is a Giant Freaking Hypocrite Sucks at Life
Matt Zemek, blogger for Scout.com, and moral authority to us all, took Notre Dame to task, again, because taking Notre Dame to task is one of the 2 standard ways to ensure a lot of traffic to your "work," and thus a happy editor/employer. This time, he claims that not only has Notre Dame lost track of its Catholic identity, but Notre Dame is also hurting America. To quote the ignoramus, "The ultimate problem with Notre Dame football has less to do with the institution itself, and much more to ...
Another Missive from the Enclave: Flagellum Equus Mortuus
Salve, Magisterium. I was visiting with Brother Bernard, the Enclave’s archivist, the other night and beneath the full, silvery moon, with the sound of his rare, red piglets squealing in the background, Brother Bernard passed on to me a rare and unsettling manuscript. For centuries the Enclave has gathered every piece of writing in existence. Not just work that has been published, mind you, but copies of every scrap and doodle on earth are gathered, catalogued, and archived by Brother ...
Rothstein Never Took Finance
Generally speaking, I'm most-of-the-time okay with Michael Rothstein's writing at his "Irish Insights" blog. While not the most prolific/inspiring writer, he gets some good stories at times. And while he loooooves to cover the mundane during the off-season, so do we, so we can't knock him for it. But, Mike, seriously, you can't call out Tim Brown for his 'poor' stock picks one freaking week after he picked them! That's just not how the analysis of financial instruments works. Ever ...
Let’s Clear One Thing Up Real Quickly…
Chicago Tribune's own Notre Dame beat writer, Brian Hamilton, doesn't know much about the Notre Dame Football Program. In covering the news about Tenuta joining the Irish, he said (and I urge you not to click on that link)... What, exactly, does "assistant head coach/defense" mean -- especially for Irish defensive coordinator Corwin Brown, whom Weis lauded at every turn in 2007? We'll see. At minimum, it means that the defense's performance in '07 still wasn't good enough in Weis' ...
Irish Illustrated Strikes Again
As you've no doubt heard, Irish Illustrated is reporting that Jon Tenuta is joining the ND Football coaching staff. I'm not going to link to them. They've really ticked me off. This is just another example of Irish Illustrated being unable to act with any sense of responsibility to the program that essentially makes it possible for them to exist as a business. There's still not 100% confirmation from any ND officials that this is happening. If it is, in fact, happening, there area many ...
Pat Forde, Your Credibilty is Deader than Bo Schembechler
I tried telling myself, at the start of the season, that if and when things got a little dicey for Notre Dame, and the vultures started lining up to feast on the resulting carcasses like so many past office-mates with the promise of birthday cake, I would not take umbrage. I would not react. But then Notre Dame went 0-2 and Washington, coached by Tyrone Willingham, went 2-0. That last sentence just took me 4 minutes to type. I kept writing, "Notre Dame went 2-0 and Washington, coached by ...
AP Poll Goes All Stupid… er.
The AP Poll just announced that they'll allow "lower-division schools," meaning non-D1 schools, meaning App State, to be voted into their Top 25 College Football Poll. This is mind bogglingly stupid on a level usually reserved for contestants of Big Brother. Let's consider this new, improbable, but not impossible scenario for a moment... App State, riding the wave of excitement over the biggest upset in football history, gets voted into next week's AP Top 25. Michigan, now fully pissed ...
Dennis Dodd Just Making Stuff Up At This Point
We know it's slow during the offseason, but that doesn't give Dennis Dodd of CBSSportsline.com any excuses for the piece of fecal matter he's published on their site (fecal matter gets no link here (unless you count self-referential links, of course)). Then again, if we're looking for things that need an excuse, just about everything Dodd has ever done in his entire life needs an excuse of some sort. Anyway, here's what Dennis has pulled out of his "hat," and by "hat" we mean "butt." Bold ...
Jon Wilner of the Mercury News Should Consider A Trade School… (Edited with an angry word at the end.)
...Because this whole Journalism thing just isn't working out. Jon Wilner wouldn't know a fact if it beat him within an inch of his life with a lead pipe. And as a result, he's turned in this piece of detritus as his latest hack job. No link for Jon. The bold words are mine: Why does Weis get a golden pass? By Jon Wilner Mercury News Staff Columnist It has been more than a week since Notre Dame got hammered by Louisiana State in the Sugar Bowl, more than a month since it got whipped ...