The fans don't like KW because his idea of improving the football team is playing weaker competition. He's said the teams recent travails were due to scheduling, rather than to his hiring of Tyrone Willingham. When he was forced to can Willingham by the board of trustees he defended Willingham with the faint praise that he was a great football coach Monday through Friday. What? Maybe Tyrone wrote that for him - Chauncey-ish enough. Of course he'd had to make a hire in a hurry, because Notre Dame had just revoked their offer to George O'Leary when it turned out Kevin hadn't reviewed George's resume very carefully.
OK, we're a three and nine team - So is the way to fix that to schedule a few patsies and climb up to 7 and 5. Kevin seems to think so. Look at this:
Phil Steele ranks ND's 2008 schedule as the 67th toughest in the nation. That's disgusting. When I was a freshman I sat through a two and seven season. The next year they bought in Parseghian and the year after that the Irish were national champs. That's a great story, but it's not Kevin's story,
Kevin has another angle - it's financial. If you play a lot of second tier teams you can tell them we'll play you at Notre Dame but we're not coming to Podunk for a game. More home games, more money.
I hope the honcho's at ND canned Kevin because they were embarassed by his striving for mediocrity, I'm afraid they fired him because he screwed up the renovation of Rockne Stadium and they're going to have to spend million more fixing the foundations and they're pissed off about it.
Anyway I leave you with this
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