The Notre Dame Jet Has Landed in Florida!

A Cessna 560 twin-engine jet with tail number N42ND arrived at Vero Beach Municipal Airport in Florida at approximately 9:00am EST on Monday morning. That particular tail number is registered to none other than the University of Notre Dame.

This can only mean one thing, of course: Notre Dame Officials are out sneaking around behind head coach Charlie Weis’ back looking for his replacement! (1)

It seems so cliché...so "Auburn Jet Gate."

But who on God's Green Earth could they be looking for in Vero Beach, FL?

Is there some unpolished diamond-in-the-rough coaching prodigy on staff at Indian River Community College?

Or maybe they are checking out the Head Chef at the Culinary Institute of Vero Beach?

Or could the chosen one be residing at Vero Beach’s Truth Bible College & Seminary?

Another 0.22 seconds of diligent research told this so-called “scribe” that the University of Florida also has a branch in Vero Beach.

Wait another second—you don’t think...? No, it couldn’t be.

I will leave it up to the reader to connect the dots, but let me just add that the whereabouts of a certain coach, who happens to be named after a pope, could not be determined from checking either his MySpace or Facebook pages.

Coincidentally, there was also no comment on the matter from Notre Dame’s AD, Jack Swarbrick.

Wow! The dearth of information is both inadequate and lacking.

Undeterred and desperate for information, I asked Daisey Mae, an 82-lb. female American Bulldog, for her thoughts on the matter. She responded with a burp-like noise:  “bwuurmaff.”

Wait a doggone minute—did she say “BWUURMAFF”?

Could that be “Big Wins Under URban Meyer At Florida, Forever”?

Apparently Miss Daisey has been drinking too much orange Gatorade.  She is not up to speed on all the rampant speculation about the Prodigal Son’s planned return to polish the Golden Dome on Jan. 9, 2009.

I only hope for her sake that it does not come to pass.

Bwuurmaff, indeed, Daisey Mae. Bwuurmaff, indeed.

NotNotes:

  I m1. I must admit - the thought has occurred to me that this could just be a recruiting trip and that Charlie Weis and/or other Notre Dame coaches went to Vero Beach, FL to visit Zeke Motta the 6’2” 207lb S/OLB from Vero Beach HS who committed to Notre Dame in early October . The plane reportedly left Vero Beach at 11:41am that same morning and flew to Teterboro, NJ before going on to Newark, NJ the next day and then returning to South Bend, IN. That sure sounds like a recruiting trip to me. Plus do you really think Urban and Jack could really hammer out a deal from 9:00am to 11:41am on a Monday morning?