Sunday, November 15, 2009
The ND Domino Effect Is In Effect: Next Up- Stanford
With the winds of change circling over Notre Dame like a Midwestern tornado, several schools are in back office talks to fish or cut bait with their coaches. Pat Fitzgerald's name was mentioned several times before this season and Jim Phillips delivered with a contract extension. Now, Jim Harbaugh and Stanford are set to announce a significant contract extension - click here to read about it on ESPN.com. As I mentioned yesterday, I've voiced my displeasure repeatedly with Harbaugh's negative recruiting tactics, but I have to admit Stanford is playing at a whole 'nother level than the 'Cats this season. If you've actually watched them play you would agree. Regardless, they're still not filling their 50,000-seat stadium, until this week when they play 'Cal and then next week when they face Charlie Weis. Ironically, I predict a Stanford slaughter will be the end of the Weis era, unfortunately (as in keep him there and let mediocrity reign!). I wonder what conversations are happening behind closed doors in Iowa City and Norman, Oklahoma?
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From the SF Chronicle today re Harbaugh:
When Jim Harbaugh and Pete Carroll met at midfield after Stanford completed its 55-21 defenestration of USC here Saturday, their conversation was brief, pointed and seemingly unsatisfying.
"What's your deal? What's your deal?" Carroll said, according to two sources near enough to hear.
"What's your deal?" Harbaugh retorted, and that was that.
Now there's the brevity of wit for you. It is also evidence of what will be a lingering dislike-a-thon between the two men, punctuated by Harbaugh's impish yet gratuitous two-point conversion attempt after Stanford's seventh - yes, seventh - touchdown. It looked like what it was, Harbaugh putting a knee in Carroll's exposed coaching nethers.
Jim Harbaugh would have to be absolutley crazy to leave Stanford for SoBe. Witness: January on the Stanford campus, a bit damp and cloudly, vs January in SoBe, frozen tundra buried under a hundred feet of snow... and winter just beginning.
Beano Cook announced on espn radio yesterday morning that the Fitzgerald fellow from Northwestern was going to be the Domers' next coach. No, he admitted, he's never spoken to anyone at either school, that's just what he "thinks." Why is this idiot still on the radio???
Harbaugh's two point conversion was further illustration of a lack of class. His team may well be very good, but he's an a-hole.
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