Notre Dame Fighting Irish News

When Bob Davie took over for Lou Holtz before the 1997 NCAA football season, nobody knew it was effectively the end of Notre Dame's reign amongst the nation's elite college football programs.

Since Notre Dame signed the contract with NBC to broadcast every Irish home game to the entire nation in 1991?yes, it?s been that long?these games have become marathons, usually lasting well over three hours and sometimes approaching the four-hour mark.

Firstly, let me just say that I will be happy if either team wins (BLASPHEMY!), given what happened to UCONN this year.

Everyone inside the college football world seems to?agree that this will be Charlie Weis' last season as head coach at Notre Dame. After only two and a half weeks of red hot speculation,?dozens of coaching candidate replacements have been scrutinized and debated without end.

I just have to vent here.

Forget Pacquiao v. Mayweather. Stop talking about Colts-Pats. Don?t even worry about the Ohio State v. Michigan game this weekend.?

SOUTH BEND, Ind.-Notre Dame and Connecticut keep coming up a play short.

SOUTH BEND, Ind.-Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick plans to make a decision on the future of coach Charlie Weis within days of the season's end.

The mental state of humiliation doesn?t settle too well in the scenery where mortals are a theme now, tattering respectability for Notre Dame believers witnessing yet another hopeless season.

1) The SEC, Big Ten, Pac-10 and Big 12

With a 35-25 record, one bowl victory, one BCS appearance, no national titles and only one 10 win season at Notre Dame, Charlie Weis is on track to become yet another head coach in South Bend that could not get the job done. Although Weis' recruiting classes have been rated high, he has not turned that into success on the field. Some even argue his first two winning seasons should have an asterik by them because most of those players were recruited by Ty Willingham. Since Notre Dame Athletic... Director Jack Smore>>