Hawkins is gone, so that shortens my list to Shanahan and Weis. i'll take either one! some say that ND is stuck up and we think too highly of ourselves and our football program. those people don't know football, they have no cognition of the kind of history that we have here. to that, i'd like to add the following...my time in texas taught me many things, among them - wise old cowboy sayings...
always drink upstream from the herd.
always drink upstream from the herd.
It was some Fighting Irish sportswriter who claimed that Stoops or Belichick would jump at the chance.
The guy who operates the Blue and Gold website stated that who ever it is, two-three years was an acceptable time frame to have a national championship as Stoops did it in two and Tressel at Ohio State did it in two or three. He stated that in every five year period, Notre Dame could have one "clunker," which he said was 7-4 or 8-3. Aside from this horrible season, it would be expected that they would have three finishes in the top ten, and one national title. The reality is in the last 20 years no team has this type of success over more than a ten year period. It just seemed like he was living in the '40s. You just can't do this these days with conference television contracts on several networks and cable stations and the sholarship reductions from the mid-1990's.