Will Urban Be Tempted By Notre Dame?
Ah, the opportunities for metaphor-speak, puns, and double entendres abound. I’ll try to keep it straight here. Try not to read between the lines. I mean it.
Notre Dame is one of the most successful college football franchises in history, although recent years would make you wonder how it could have ever been so great. Once as lofty a program as a gargoyle perched atop a cathedral, Notre Dame has fallen harder and faster than the priest Frollo did after being pushed by Quasimodo. (I couldn’t help it.)
Charlie Weis should have been the savior of the franchise. Indeed, in his first year it seemed so obvious that he was an excellent, even fortunate, choice that they extended his contract ten years. And then the bottom fell out.
So now we’re about halfway through that contract, but it seems pretty apparent that Notre Dame is going to buy Weis out and go hunting again. The common rumor is that Florida coach Urban Meyer heads the shortlist for Notre Dame.
Urban has previously said that coaching Notre Dame would be his dream job. Wait — when did I last hear him say that? Oh yeah. It was the same year Notre Dame hired Charlie Weis instead, and Meyer went to Florida. Since then, Florida has won two national titles, and Notre Dame has fallen out of the polls.
Florida has been a great team for decades, but they are an absolute football dynasty right now. Notre Dame is a mid-pack team with troubles. I can’t imagine things getting any better for Meyer than they are right now. There’s no way he should leave Florida for Notre Dame. No way.
Plus, I like Florida, and Urban Meyer. So this might ruin a good thing for me.
I have a great idea: Notre Dame, hire Les Miles. Or Pete Carroll. I want to like LSU and USC, but I can’t like them because I can’t stand those coaches. Moving one of them to Notre Dame would help me like college football better. This is a much better idea.
