For those who want ammo in their moaning about bad officiating, the ACC crew in the VA Tech-North Carolina game called a personal foul against Georgia Tech.
In other news, it’s a bad, bad, bad week to be in the Top 10: 3 Oklahoma lost, 4 Florida lost, 5 West Virginia lost, 7 Texas lost, 10 Rutgers lost. The other top 25s did marginally better, with 21 Penn St. losing, 13 Clemson losing, 11 Oregon losing (to 6, though), 22 Alabama losing, and VA Tech and Wisconsin playing close games that shouldn’t have been.
Notre Dame got thumped, taking the Fighting Irish’s first ever 0-4 start to an astonishing 0-5. Tyrone Willingham was a competent, clean image coach who didn’t win enough games for the Domers and got canned after just a few seasons. Weis is in his 3rd season and accomplishing things even Willingham didn’t manage, and doing it with consecutive Top-10 rated recruiting classes. If the White Whale Weis isn’t fired after this season, the serious questions I had about the Notre Dame administration’s race bias that first arose after Willingham’s termination will come roaring back to the forefront. When Willingham was fired, I argued adamantly that no coach should be fired absent serious misconduct prior to the end of his 4th season, when all but the redshirts are the products of his coaching and recruiting, and that Notre Dame was breaking with long-standing history by firing Ty after just three seasons. In fact, Willingham, the only black coach Notre Dame has ever had, is the first coach NOT to coach the Irish for at least 4 seasons since Hunk Anderson resigned after two seasons in 1934 (not counting interim coaches in 1944, 1945, and 1963). I truly hope those Irish are having buyer’s remorse hardcore right now over Weis’s contract extension given in the middle of his first season. (Note that Ty started his first season 8-0 but didn’t get an extension offer).
