In case you missed my tweet earlier, it seems there are some rather salacious rumors floating around South Bend about Notre Dame men’s basketball coach — and legendary on-again, off-again BrendanLoy.com Whipping Boy / Silly Meme Generator — Mike Brey. While this is still mostly in the realm of rumor and “undernews” for now, it appears there is some possibility… Read more »
Bubble guru Andy Glockner says Notre Dame’s win over UConn yesterday gives the Irish some much-needed “wiggle room” — and means UConn is in “a lot of trouble”: Notre Dame (20-10, 9-8, RPI: 61, SOS: 54): The Irish’s unexpected push without Luke Harangody continued on Wednesday with a so-ugly-it’s-beautiful home win over bubble rival UConn. Now even if the Irish… Read more »
ESPN is reporting that two sources have confirmed to them that Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly will be the next coach at Notre Dame. UPDATE BY BRENDAN: Now confirmed; question mark removed from headline. 🙂
On Facebook yesterday, one of my law-school classmates made an observation about Charlie Weis’s then-imminent departure that I suspect will be heard in certain corners the sports media this week, as Weis’s firing is used to advance the evergreen storyline of Notre Dame’s fall from grace. (The only story the sports media likes better than “Notre Dame’s fall from grace”… Read more »
Okay, time for a little blog prediction contest… QUESTION: Who will be the head coach of Notre Dame’s football team next season? TIEBREAKER #1: On what date will Notre Dame announce its decision with respect to Charlie Weis? TIEBREAKER #2: On what date will Notre Dame announce Weis’s replacement (if applicable)? TIEBREAKER #3: What will be the margin of victory/defeat… Read more »
Should they? Of course not. Will they? Quite possibly, writes Stewart Mandel: Is the loser of the Pitt-Cincy game really going to end up in the Meineke Car Care Bowl? Really?? — John, Chicago If Notre Dame finishes 7-5 [or 8-4], most likely. The Gator Bowl has first choice of Big East teams after the BCS, but it’s also allowed… Read more »
Most Trojan fans consider a “perfect day” to be a day when USC wins, and Notre Dame and UCLA both lose. As an “Irish Trojan,” I have a different definition: a Brendan Loy Perfect Day is a day when USC and ND both win, and UCLA loses. That’s happened a bunch of times since I enrolled at Notre Dame. What… Read more »
In the wake of the Eugene Massacre, my posts on the BCS championship game “pecking order” have lost all significance for USC fans. It would take a nationwide collapse of utterly epic, cataclysmic proportions — making the BCS chaos of 2007 look like a day at the beach — to get the two-loss Trojans back into the national championship picture…. Read more »
First things first: Charlie Weis is a complete and utter moron. His inexplicable and indefensible decision to go for it on 4th-and-goal, instead of taking the chip-shot field goal to tie the game with 11 minutes left, was the last straw. It convinced me, once and for all, that Charlie Choo-Choo should be fired. Enough is enough. (And yes, I… Read more »
