Notre Dame: Who Can Their Fans Blame Now? Ty's Ghost?

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Nine games done, three more to go and two of those will probably be loses!

As of today November 8 th 2009 , Notre Dame’s football team sits with a record of 6 wins and 3 loses.

Am I wrong on those stats?

So here we are, many year after the Notre Dame fans virtually ran Ty Willingham out of town without giving him the “full” opportunity to be a successful coach .

The opportunity part is my personal , god given right to an opinion.

Last time I wrote an article about this subject I was told by a ND fan I had no right to talk about that school because I was not a graduate, go figure.

Here is another personal attack by some ND fans:

“Can you read at an adult level? You seem to simplify everything. Did you graduate from an accredited university with a major requiring intelligence? From you post you sound uneducated.” (notice the “you post”, I’ll give an uneducated guess, It should be “your post” but hey! I didn’t graduate)

Just got to love that arrogance?

Oh by the way, I’m fluent in multiple languages, I can read at an adult level in two of them and at a child level on 2 others. (still learning)

Ok! Now that all those hart felt sentiments are out of the way, here is some questions.

What now my love?

Where do we go from here?

Should he stay or should he go?

Was the grass greener on the other side?

Can I get my money back?

So many questions and no real answers, just more excuses by the largest fan base in college football.

I still can’t get an answer to the question:

Is this team better off today than they were during Ty Willingham’s era ?

If I look at the stats the answer is a big no!

2005 and 2006 were coach Weis’s best years at Notre Dame, we can argue all you want, but facts are those were Ty’s recruits.

Agree? Am I making this up?

Those were the seasons Ty had been building towards, but he was cut short.

If you take those two years out of coach Weis record at ND, his record would look like this:

16 wins

18 loses

I argue that the 2007,2008 and 2009 are all on coach Weis, those are his players.

Agree?

What part of that is not true?

The record for the 2009 will probably be 7 wins and 5 loses, well maybe at best 8-4, if they can beat Stanford.

Give me your predictions, and we’ll compare at the seasons end.

I love stats, don’t you, it gives you a good tool to form opinions, here is some parting thoughts.

These are the coaching eras at ND starting from Parseghian:

Parseghian 1964 to 1974

Devine 1075 to 1980

Foust 1981 to 1985 (only had high school experience)

Holtz 1986 to 1996 ( best coach at ND in the last 30 years)

Davie 1997 to 2001

Willingham 2002 to 2004

Weis 2005 to ??

Just a thought , I think the lengths of those coaching eras were interesting.

We  can at least agree on that ?

Well maybe next year will be better.

Good luck with that.

Some of you may think I have a beef with ND, well I don't, this is just like in NASCAR, I like Dale Earnhardt Jr  but the JR nation is nuts. Nothing personal.

And as always laugh a little! is good for the soul.

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