Winning football games is important, if you don’t win, they cut your coaching career short. Some coaches, I love, even when they’re not winning games. I’m a Notre Dame fan, but it makes me in a bad mood to watch them play. For the past several seasons I kept hoping Charlie Weis would turn it around and start winning football games. He just seems like a good guy, so I was really pulling for him to do something with Notre Dame. I like watching Golden Tate and Jimmy Clausen, and the close games are great, but losing by 7 points or fewer the last 4 games stinks! Last Saturday, against Stanford, with less than a minute to go, Notre Dame was down 7. Weis made the decision to let Stanford run the ball into the end zone with no defense so that Notre Dame could regain control of the ball one more time. Notre Dame lost 45-38. Weis was fired Monday, cutting short the remaining 6 years left on his contract.
I’m not as big of a fan of UVa football, I’m not the only one. I keep hearing that it’s soccer season at UVa because we’re all embarrassed with how badly UVa has been playing. It’s not a surprise that Al Groh was fired Sunday. Who would you like to see be the replacement?
It’s important who UVa picks as the new coach because it makes all the difference with recruitment and excitement toward the program. Living in Alabama for the last several years, I know it’s possible to turn the football program around quickly. We went through 4 coaches in less than a decade. There was Mike DuBose, Dennis Franchione, Mike Price, and then Mike Shula. It only took Nick Saban, a year to turn the program around ending the last two seasons 12-0. I haven’t missed a game all season and can’t wait for Saturday’s game against Florida!
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Mike London named new UVA coach: http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=10500