Not so much... They go down in their last pseudo-real game to UCF. Good bye shot at MNC, good bye shot at Heisman. Oh wait... never really had either one. :roll:
Agreed on all counts, but it doesn't diminish the job Charlie Strong has done there. They will begin play in the ACC next year, which may or may not help his recruiting and may or may not end the team's solid run the past couple of years. Would Strong be a candidate for the Texas job.........or the Alabama job after Saban moves on to Texas? :lol: :lol: One final observation: If O'Leary had been honest on his resume, we might not have gone through the dark years of Willingham and Weiss. Who knows?
Not so much bad Louisville but a very good UCF. They won at Penn State...comfortably. They won at L'ville... ND has missed out on a couple of NC's because of a bad resume and political correctness.... Right now I rank the teams in Florida as: FSU UCF Miami UF
Sid I think you are right about O'Leary, he had some excellent teams at Ga. Tech and was probably the right man for the job at Notre Dame. I think he would have never let us go down the path that Willingham took us. As for Louisville, they are still an excellent team, we all know it takes some luck to go undefeated even when you have a schedule that people call weak. I remember well the year that W.Va had Pat White, Steve Slaton, etc and were predicted to go undefeated and they were exactly that and on their way to the BCS Championship game when they tripped up on Pitt at home in their last game of the season. Pitt was a .500 team or maybe not even that. They'll probably win the rest of their games now and still finish with a good ranking, top 15 probably. Charlie Strong will still be pursued by a lot of teams with bigger stadiums and bigger football budgets.