Atleast someone was watching the same game
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=358…
I normally don't like Pat Forde but this is a great review of the game by a national media member. Someone who actually saw that Notre Dame was given that game by Michigan and they should be lucky to be 2-0 and not 0-2.
September 15th, 2008 at 4:37 PM ^
is a UM tradition thats about as old as The Victors, Yost Arena and Bob Ufer.
Glad the new guys were able to add to the legacy!!
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Willinham: 21-15 after 3 years
Weis: 22-15 after 3 years.
September 16th, 2008 at 1:36 PM ^
Weis has been given lenience because he has a bunch of years left on his absurd contract, which Notre Dame felt forced to give him because before the 2007 season, Weis was widely considered to be a prime candidate for an NFL job. Notre Dame showed poor judgement by overreacting to Weis's first two years and getting caught up in the hype that he made Tom Brady into a star, but it isn't relevant to what happened to Willingham.
And if Tyrone Willingham got a raw deal, then what about Bob Davie? He had about the same winning percentage, played tough schedules, got fired only one year after making a BCS game, and when his teams lost they got blown out less often.
September 16th, 2008 at 2:25 PM ^
Hannibal -- the reason I felt Willingham got a raw deal is that he only had three years as i recall and at the end of the second, some very influential boosters started a letter writing campaing that made it into the media that they wanted him out. Recruiting into that environment would be difficult.
My belief is that the reason Ty got canned at the time that he did was that ND wanted Urban Meyer and thought that they were the front runner to land him. I obviously was not in the conference room when the decision to fire willingham was being made, but I am basing my opinion on all of the media bluster that Meyer was the leading candidate for the ND spot.
Again, MSM is not the greatest source of accurate info, but it was all that was available to someone who wasn't going to spend a lot of time trying to learn about the inner workings of the ND AD.