This Week In Schadenfreude: Cue the Crying Leprechaun, Then Watch Him Explode

Oh, there's more Notre Dame spleen, youbetcha. The craziest place on the internet, ND Nation, went from this in the pregame:

Syracuse is terrible. They are ass on a stick. No good. That's the problem. They are so s----y that the result of this game will not be a good indicator of ND's progress.

Nope. We'll have to wait for the USC game to see how much (if at all) this ND team has grown since SDSt.

To this in the post game:

If Weis is retained, it will be a 12 game death march next year. It will be a malignancy the likes of which ND has ever seen. The media and our bloodthirsty competition will feed on our manifest incompetence. Weis will suffer a long and public public humiliation. His family will suffer greatly as they watch him founder. ...

And you panty-waisted lace curtain milquetoast Irish f---ing pansies better shut your f---ing mouths about how dirty this candidate or that is. There are no Barry Switzers left in college football. No top coach is unfit for ND. We would be lucky to get any of them - Saban, Meyer, even Spurrier.

This University, its administration, its alumni - a total f---ing disgrace.

Okay, maybe that's too wordy. How about this zinger?

He's not, as Andy called him, Faust in a fat suit. He's not even that good.

Oh, snap. If Weis returns next year-and given reports that his buyout is something absurd he just might-this will be Bruins-Nation-vs-Karl-Dorell juicy.

Most Embarrasing WIN in Wisconsin History

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We need OT and 3 missed XP's to beat a 1-AA team at Home on Senior Day.

Pathetic.

11 - 9 - 7 wins since Barry chose his successor, I see a pretty disturbing trend here.

WHAT THE F--- DID YOU DO TO MY FOOTBALL TEAM?

Turn it into a heap of poo, apparently.

Then there's this guy:

This. [DC] Doeren should be fired immediately. No adjustments whatsoever. Linebackers lined up so far off the ball they were in Janesville. This idiot is one of the most incompetent coaches I have ever seen. This moron makes Kevin Cosgrove look like a Rhodes scholar. Get a D Coordinator who doesn't have his head up his butt. I actually want Cosgrove back at this point, thats how bad this clown is. Coach Hank should be laughing his ass off right now. Pathetic.

I wonder if he knew what a Rhodes Scholar was before Myron Rolle won one?

1-17 on 3rd downs....how can that be? I don't care if Captain Kangaroo was the QB.....1-17 is impossible unless you are Trying not to convert.

Its not like OSU was a NFL defense and Michigan was a freshman high school team from Ann Arbor Pioneer.

Thats freking pathetic.....RR needs to look at EVERYTHING he does now and reasses it. because whatever he did this season DIDN'T WORK

Washington State won the Winner Gets To Not Be The Worst Team In Pac-10 History Bowl, leaving Washington in the dust with a flurry of... missed Washington field goal attempts. Yea, truly, the 2008 Apple Cup could not have ended any other way.

But Ty Willingham is done, the 0-12 season is over, and things at Dawgman are looking up!

UW football is dead

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Face it. If we offered Muschamp then Mora is off the table and really has no interest. And if Muschamp declined our offer and took $900k what the hell are the scarves offering. Be prepared to welcome some fired coach from some hell hole college. They will eff this up and I will be done. I have to find someone who cares about football to root for. I think it will be an SEC team. They seem to get it down there. Anyway, we are effed!

Um, well... someone's probably looking on the bright side?

Seriously..............who would take this job right now?

Uh.

Any grifter looking for a way to scam 4 million bucks and get away with it.

Guys?

Hugh or Matt Millen?

!!! Step away from the keyboard, put it down, and go do something else. I beg you.

Elsewhere, someone responds to the idea of Dennis Franchione reasonably, an opposing fan asks if UW fans are sure they've even got an athletic department (and is mostly agreed with!), and, we've got further justification for our TOIS pick this week:

Just took a quick trip over to Irisheyes.com

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Felt like I was at Dawgman.

It's one thing to barely escape a thunderous first half from Troy and another to completely fail to escape from Ole Miss, which we remind you is Ole Miss. (And, shockingly, is 7-4!) LSU fans are displeased.

I would like to remind readers that LSU did this last year:

Now, uh, what?

I think Les Miles has been a good coach for us, and he will certainly have an opportunity to right the ship here. But he MUST right it, or at the very least he must do something that will have a good chance of righting it. If Les Miles sticks with the status quo, he is betting his job on the gamble that the secondary play will improve dramatically next year.

(Emphasis mine.) 2007: win national championship. 2008: lose nutball quarterback and seriously consider starting a Harvard transfer. 2009: job under threat? What planet is this? Oh, it's the planet of people who can't remember anything that took place longer than three months ago. Carry on.

And this guy, well:

Everybody gets an F. Everybody.

Based on the effort I saw out there on Saturday, I'm not going to waste my time trying to find any value in what I saw. It was a purely failed effort across the board. Even the players you might say weren't totally ineffective out there still weren't good enough in any phase of football to make up for the hideous performances of the rest of their positions.

The biggest F goes out to LSU's seniors, who put forth a totally disgusting and disgraceful effort in their last game in Tiger Stadium.

Arrrrrgh... must... avoid... all... caps... fail! THOSE SENIORS WON YOU A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP LAST YEAR. Argh argh argh argh.

If there's one thing TWIS has done for me it's clarified which fanbases are the absolute worst in terms of respect for the guys on their team when things are going poorly: Alabama and LSU.

Syracuse 24, Notre Dame 23. Cue the crying child:



Wait, what? I guess I shouldn't have written this section first.

Texas Tech saw its national championship dreams go up in smoke-no, check that. Texas Tech as its national championship dreams riddled by bullets, stomped on, scalped, dismembered, put through a wood chipper, and shot into the sun by Oklahoma. And even during the brutal second quarter this is the kind of stuff you get in an open thread:

This is one of the hardest things i've ever watched.

I'm still VERY VERY VERY proud of our team and the things they have done... the enjoyment i've gotten from this team and this school up until tonight has been one of the best things in my life so far. we KNOW our team is good, we KNOW we can compete...

There's no meltdown here, just the occasional downer. In the aftermath people are still sunny about this year and the future.

Great title from Canespace on Miami's blowout loss to Georgia Tech:

Embarassed, Humiliated, Defeated

Though the rest of the blog entry follows apace:

He [Paul Johnson] also showed why he and his staff in their first year are so far ahead of Canes head coach Randy Shannon, offensive coordinator Patrick Nix and Defensive Coordinator Bill Young that it is just astounding.

Can you imagine anyone saying this about Miami (Miami!!!) as recently as 2004?

it has become painfully obvious that these Canes have so much work to do before they can truly compete with the big boys.

Times change fast when you've a school with no money and no fanbase, I guess.