The Golden Domers put forth another disgraceful display. Only this time, it came off the field.
Notre Dame announced yesterday that its football team will opt not to play in a bowl game, even though the team is "bowl eligible" with its pitiful 6-6 record (The criteria for being bowl eligible is the subject for another rip another time, but for now, I'll stick with skewering the Flighting Irish). Notre Dame hadn't locked into a specific game yet, but you can be sure they would have gotten into a better one than they deserved based on their gigantic fan base.
Seriously, who does Notre Dame think it is? The team has been mediocre for nearly two decades but yet it seemingly considers itself too good to show its face in the GMAC Bowl?
I guess playing in the postseason is old hat for this team after that monumental victory over Hawaii in last year's, you guessed it, Hawaii Bowl. Nevermind the fact that the Irish had lost nine straight bowl games before that, an incredibly anemic span stretching all the way back to 1995.
In other words, get over yourself Notre Dame! You're not a big deal anymore!
What makes this story even more distasteful is the fact that the players themselves had a say in this. This pervasive sense of unwarranted entitlement must have spread all the way down as the team took a vote in the past week.
Don't you have to question the mindset of a squad of college-aged kids that wouldn't want to take a group trip somewhere, get a lot of free stuff and get cheered on by screaming coeds to go play a football game on national TV? Man, am I thankful I don't have to do that.
Don't you have to question the mindset of a squad of college-aged kids that wouldn't want to take a group trip somewhere, get a lot of free stuff and get cheered on by screaming coeds to go play a football game on national TV? Man, am I thankful I don't have to do that.
Maybe Charlie Weis wasn't such a bad coach after all. Maybe his team was just a bunch of spoiled brats.
Well, check that. It was obviously a combination of those factors and others since Weis clearly stinks when running the show. He knows how to put up points (It helps to have Jimmy Clausen and Golden Tate -- best name in sports?), but when it comes to everything else, he is as lost as they come.
I would say I wish I could watch the fat fraud lose one more time, but he's already gone anyway. Hopefully, the football program will ditch its snotty attitude next.
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I'm leaning toward giving the players a pass. The Chicago Trib reported that Weis was already fired when they voted:
ReplyDelete"A no-go decision would come as little surprise, given the twin issues of motivation and location. Already reeling from four straight losses, the question is incentive in the wake of coach Charlie Weis's dismissal."
College players are taught (and therefore believe) that they have to be "loyal" to the coach. The players did what they were trained to do.
That's a decent point, but I hope they weren't doing it out of loyalty, because it makes no sense. Is not going to a bowl game some kind of protest of Weis' firing? You would think after all these years of coaches snaking out of town for a better paycheck these kids would wake up to the fact that this loyalty stuff is a bunch of nonsense.
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