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Originally Posted by Bogtrotter07
This is mind-numbing entitlement side-speak replete with circular logic:
I hear this kind of drivel all the time. Jack Swarbrick is the only non brain-dead admin Our Lady has seen in over a dozen years! Come on: With Kevin White and his predecessors, ND hired Bob Davies, Geo O’Leary, Ty Willingham, and Charlie Weiss! The only one that had a head coaching track record was a liar, and stupid enough to think he could get away with it. So your solution is to just let these idiots go on with their Three Stooges act?
If Charlie Weiss (not an idiot, but not a head coach either) were still in charge, there would be no defense, the players would have less motivation to play, wouldn’t be in as good of shape, and NOTRE DAME WOULD HAVE EVEN A WORSE DEFENSE IF THAT IS POSSIBLE. Who the **** would want Jon Tenuta back? You know, not only would he not recruit, he drove good prospects out of the door. Granted he wasn't as bad as Bob Davies who didn't think AJ Hawk had what it took, or Charlie's offensive guy who didn't think Dane Sanzenbacher could play at the division one level, but he was still really bad for ND.
Charlie should never have been given such a juicy contract after really not proving anything, and his new assistants should never have been given a one million dollar parachute, that’s right folks! Check out Jon Tenuta’s bank account, after one season, and what he did to us! Mark that down as Kevin White’s last act.
(I am so angry I could go out there and give them one good defensive play at the level of intensity they need.)
And if you think that Tate and Clauson’s staying or going had anything to do with Weiss’s firing, well then you are less intelligent than you sound. Tate had to go for the money, he said it there was nothing left for him to do but get hurt, and all Clauson was here for was the venue to reach the NFL on his terms. He saw the handwriting on the wall, with a new offensive line, (replacing three or four starters.) He would have been a moron to stay, and we definitely got his best play. Everyone was starting to figure him out. I like Jimmy, but he is slow and not really mobile. This year they would have killed him. (Maybe even worse that with Carolina, or his injury last year.)
I wish Jimmy the best, but he needs a really good offensive line, and he wouldn’t have had that with Weiss. Hell Weiss wouldn’t even give Martin a look, and he has graded out as our most consistent performer on the offensive line. Can you imagine the line without him this year? No decided schematic advantage there!
Above and beyond that, you are calling the man that has had arguably the greatest impact on college sports in the last ten years inept? Jack, with the help of Texas’s AD together changed the face of college football by not just preserving the current conferences, but made more room for other schools to declare their football independence, like BYU. Now Notre Dame can stay Notre Dame. Without their brilliant and courageous action, (they stood up to everybody, and that's a lot of money) there might not even be a Big East conference! Where would ND's great womens teams, and all other mens teams be without the Big East? In some stupid dictatiorial conference for all sports like the Big Ten. Right at this moment that would KILL Notre Dame Football!
You know what? We should revoke the fan-ship of people that express such ignorance. See my post earlier in this thread. That certain something that was a problem and RUIrish had a hard time naming it, I think is this mind-numbing idiocy!
First off, tone it down. Your rhetoric is obnoxious. What are you, Swarbrick's girlfriend?
Secondly,I never jumped to the defense of the A.D.'s that recently preceded Swarbrick as I know they all were inept starting around the time Lou left. He left in part because the talent level was dropping off and the recruiting was becoming abysmal. That was the period in time I realized how critical the A.D. job is in a college football program. (
Our inept A.D. should watch from another venue, like President of the NCAA or, whatever he's angling for next. The mess we're in is of his making . . . )
Swarbrick didn't create N.D. as an Independent with a great tradition, he came there with that tradition in place and his `courageous' effort to maintain that status is all but a mandate. He had no maneuverability on the issue and to pretend he did is just inaccurate.
I don't claim to know what Jimmy and Golden would have done with this year had Charlie remained in charge, (
His decision to fire Charlie last year sent Jimmy and Golden out the door precipitously into the arms of the NFL. They belonged at Notre Dame trying to finish something they started and had they done so I'm convinced we'd be no worse than 7 and 1 right now . . . ) some special clairvoyant knowledge you seem to be empowered with gives you all the answers to that so there's no point in any of the rest of us speculating I guess.
You don't have to ask for the revocation of my membership to whatever it is you get by writing your thoughts on this blog. I won't be checking in here anymore with the likes of `know it all' swaggering dolts such as yourself, frequenting it.
Get a life. And while your at it, switch allegiances to some other team like maybe So.Cal. The tenor of your prose would be a seemingly better fit amongst that lot.
Remember people; it's just a game! The most important byproduct of which is that it make for `good sports' and as importantly, good citizens. Something I would posit, bagbiter, or whatever she calls herself, is not.
