Didn't we know that already?
Yesterday, Gene Wojciehowski writes:
"By ridding themselves of Willingham....[Notre Dame] ended the very thing that differentiated it from everyone else: a five year commitment to its coach. Now it's like everyone else..."
During Charlie Weis's first season with Notre Dame, some guy who writes for BSO (OK, it was me) said:
"A group of alumni and boosters who weren't even employed by the school in any capacity got Willingham fired, two years before his contract was to expire. The transformation was now complete, like Anakin Skywalker turning into Darth Vader. Notre Dame had eliminated the one thing that continued to separate it from other schools. They'd become a knee-jerk, fire the coach right now type of institution, just like all the schools they claimed moral superiority over."
I'm not claiming plagarism; Gene probably never saw that when it ran and has probably never heard of us here. What I am claiming is that the ESPN universe and the Notre Dame-loving media are just now catching on to what was obvious a few years ago. It was sad to see them sell out back then; now it's just par for the course. Weis will be getting run out of town soon and it will be on to the next guy.
Don't blame Donovan, blame the front office.
The first story I wrote for this site four years ago was on Donovan McNabb and T.O.; you could say that my first year on the site was spent chronicling their ups and downs with the Eagles.So to see Mcnabb on his way out doesn't come without some sense of irony. It's been in vogue lately for darn near everyone to blame McNabb and call him a bum that can't play anymore, and wasn't much good anyway. Those people are idiots. If you want to blame anyone, blame the Eagles front office. That crew seems to do the same thing every offseason: draft lineman, sign defensive backs, and sign someone else's third or fourth receiver to be their number one receiver. And yeah, every other year or so they manage to draft a good number three receiver and put him next to the number three guy they signed in free agency with the hope that together they can impersonate a number one receiver. You getting my drift here? They always have some guys who either catch ten yard passes and get tackled, or who can catch a deep ball one out of every four times it's thrown to them. And every year it starts out well enough until people figure out that the new receiving corps is as mediocre as the previous one and shut them down. And that usually happens around the same time that Brian Westbrook goes out for the year with and injury. You wold think that after seven years of this, they'd finally figure out what to do. And the T.O. experiment probably made them dig their heels in even more. You give Peyton Manning this same group of receivers and his head would probably explode in frustration at the sheer suckitude they display late in the season. And yet, we blame McNabb year in and year out. He's probably done in Philly, but don't think for one minute that a team with good receivers and no QB wouldn't love to have him, right now.
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My thoughts exactly. I didnt write on this situation this time because I come off as an apologists. But I say release him in the offseason and let him go to Minnestoa or some team who just needs a solid QB to get over the hump. I look for McNabb in Minny next year if he isn't in Philly.
My thoughts exactly. I didnt write on this situation this time because I come off as an apologists. But I say release him in the offseason and let him go to Minnestoa or some team who just needs a solid QB to get over the hump. I look for McNabb in Minny next year if he isn't in Philly.
Hey, I'm a Skins fan so I can call it like I see it. Plus, we're every bit as unfair to our QBs as Eagles fans/media are. I know Heath Shuler ultimately sucked, but while he was in DC there wasn't a damn bit of legit difference between him and Gus Frerotte other than their paycheck but people acted like Gus was all that simply because they were mad at what Heath was making.