yea, and it would have been really nice to see Notre Dame do something incredibly Catholic with O'Leary.....like forgive him....instead, they humiliated him in the press. I am ashamed of how Notre Dame dealt with that situation.
You guys have it great compared to what the Oklahoma Sooners went through first with Captain Kangaroo (Snellenbarger whose wife danced with poms during the game), and then John Blake, nice guy, great defensive line coach, LOUZY head coach. Most games he won was five and we got blown out by the same Nebraska by over 60 points that now whines when we scored a touchdown late to get to 30 points.
OU hired a new athletic director who fired Blake (who was also black and a former Sooner) after one season and then hired Bob Stoops from Florida who turned the whole program around in two years and he is only getting better and better recruits with higher GPA's so they don't have to be concerned about not having good students to go with good football skills.
If I was recommending to ND -- fire your AD and then fire Willingham, and hire a very good coach. I saw too many missed assignments in that USC game to not think it was anything but coaching. It sure looks like ND has talent -- so did OU when Blake left but he didn't know how to use the talent. He had running backs playing quarterback and running backs that should have been defensive backs to name just a few things wrong.
Think you guys should have stuck with your original hire and forgave him -- look at Mike Price at UTEP after Alabama fired him. UTEP was really bad as we played them last year -- they looked horrible and now Price has turned that program around.