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11-02-2005, 02:26 AM

Notre Dame Football Announces Improvements To Its Storied History
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SOUTH BEND, IN — With their football renaissance derailed, at least for the moment, by a current 5-2 record that includes losses to rivals USC and unranked Michigan State, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have elected to improve in the one area where they still outclass all other college football teams: their legendary history.
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"Although we have great hopes for the future of our football program, Notre Dame has greater hopes for a facet of that program that is far more important to our university: our past," Notre Dame athletic director Kevin White said in a press conference Monday. "With that in mind, we will be making improvements, additions, and revisions that, like our history itself, have been 118 years in the making."

Notre Dame's history, perhaps the most storied in sports, already includes such legends as Knute Rockne, George Gipp, and Joe Theismann. However, once the program's history has been revised, it will also include Hall of Famers such as Bo Jackson, formerly of Auburn; Archie Griffin, formerly of Ohio State; and Red Grange, formerly of Illinois.

"All these Hall of Fame players are definitely worthy of going down as the greatest in history," Notre Dame coach Charles Weis said. "And since the College Football Hall of Fame is right down the road from us here in South Bend, we can easily make sure that the history they go down in is Notre Dame's."

Weis said that, while he certainly inherited a good history when he took the coaching job in South Bend, he wants to make that history a great one.

"I fully intend to be the primary architect of Notre Dame history's return to prominence and relevance," Weis said. "I inherited a program that had only won 11 national championships between 1924 and 2005. I promise you that, by this time next year, the Fighting Irish will have won at least 10 more in that same time period."

Director White and Coach Weis said that although the improvement of the 1887-2005 seasons will not be finalized until later this year, they have already begun drawing up plans for the historical revision.

Some of the highlights of Notre Dame's new history:

1869: The first college football game is played this year, on Nov. 6, between Princeton and Rutgers, with the understanding that the winner will go on to play Notre Dame later in the afternoon for the national championship

1887: University board approves the Athletic Department's request for a new sports team, and Notre Dame football is officially born on the playing fields of South Bend, IN, the same year as future Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz is born in West Virginia

1936: The Fighting Irish football squad travels to Nazi Germany to represent America at the Berlin Olympics; ND split end Jesse Owens gains 187 yards and scores three touchdowns in a 42-17 gold-medal-winning rout of the heavily favored Rommel-coached SS squad

1943: With the boys fighting World War II overseas, the women of Notre Dame take the reins of the football team and pummel the notorious draft-dodging Michigan Wolverines to bring home another national title to South Bend

1944: In December, the Notre Dame defense successfully holds off a German advance to win the Battle of the Bulge; meanwhile, in the Pacific theater, the Irish offense invades and retakes the Philippines; the team finishes the season ranked #2 in all polls

1956: Future Notre Dame quarterback and six-time Heisman Trophy winner Joe Montana is on June 11 in New Eagle, PA of a vestal virgin born

1957: Notre Dame quarterback Paul Hornung, in a vote that remains controversial to this very day, splits the Heisman Trophy with the man who is now widely regarded as the best football player of all time, halfback Jim Brown of Notre Dame

1961: 31 points down in the fourth quarter of an away game against highly ranked Ohio State, Notre Dame, led by 12-year-old freshman phenom Joe Theismann, scores 42 points to win in overtime

1970: Notre Dame turns down offers from the ACC, the Big Ten, and the National Football League, electing to remain a Division I independent

1975: Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, an undersized fourth-string transfer student, is allowed to dress for and play in the last and only game of his college career; in the final moments of the game, "Rudy" tackles the Georgia Tech quarterback, forcing a fumble which rolls into the end zone and is recovered for an Irish victory; Notre Dame jumps up 23 spots in the polls for a share of the national championship; Ruettiger is awarded the Butkus and Nagurski trophies

1984: In the last seconds of the national championship at the Orange Bowl, Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie's last-second Hail Mary pass is intercepted in the end zone by Notre Dame cornerback Deion Sanders and returned 106 yards for the winning touchdown

1991: All-time Notre Dame scoring leader Jerome Bettis is given the nickname "The Bus" not only for his great size and reliability, but also for his ability to put the entire Fighting Irish team on his back and carry them to away games as far away as Florida and California

2005: The Oct. 15 victory of the Fighting Irish over #1 ranked USC, 27-31, is marred somewhat when Trojan Matt Leinart, who attempts to run the ball into the end zone in a last-second quarterback sneak, gets hit by the entire Notre Dame defense and is killed instantly as time runs out

Beebs · 11-02-2005, 02:55 AM

I showed that to your roommate, I get all of the credit, all of it.

11-02-2005, 11:25 AM

Damn. They didn't show it to me.

Ugly Bastard · 11-02-2005, 12:37 PM

You guys are so gay.

-UB

BigDongedHoe · 11-02-2005, 06:46 PM

Notre Dame is so fuckign gay, the fans are so cock in the ass obsessed with their history and tradition its mind boggling.

I'd like the whole entire University to please remove there lips from Charlie Weis' ass and leave there ego's behind them because they are a low classless university.

An african american Willingham goes 8-0 and nothing happens.

A caucasian Charlie Weis goes 5-2 and the sky is falling, the planets are aligning, Notre Dame will dominate college football for the next century, and he gets a contract extension.

Fuck the Irish and fuck the crew cut.

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 11-02-2005, 07:08 PM

So you do admit willingham was black?

Ugly Bastard · 11-02-2005, 08:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BigDongedHoe:
An african american Willingham goes 8-0 and nothing happens.

A caucasian Charlie Weis goes 5-2 and the sky is falling, the planets are aligning, Notre Dame will dominate college football for the next century, and he gets a contract extension.

I enjoyed reading that.

-UB

GNasty · 11-03-2005, 01:20 AM

I think Ty got what he deserved. Started 8-0, big deal. Coach of the year, who cares. Sure he won some games, but do you want your team coached by a Negro? Bring in the fat white guy. Give him five years. I mean, he lost two games at home but still, look at all the ranked teams he beat. Michigan, Purdue, Pitt. None of them turned out to be frauds. Shake down that thunder! Plus Weis won superbowls in the NFL as a coordinator, thats worth another five years (don't want him to go pro along with Quinn).

BigDongedHoe · 11-03-2005, 01:28 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by GNasty:
[QB] I mean, he lost two games at home but still, look at all the ranked teams he beat. Michigan, Purdue, Pitt. None of them turned out to be frauds. QB]

Might I add to now non-ranked Michigan State.

You're right Pitt wasn't a fraud they only lost to Division 1-A Powerhouse Ohio University.

Notre Dame is, was, and always will be a racist school. I'm not saying Willingham was the best coach I honestly feel Weis is better. Can you really sit here and defend the fact its not racist that TW stared 8-0 and CW started 5-2 and look what happened afterwards?

Didn't think so.

Beebs · 11-03-2005, 02:31 AM

Is was and always will be a racist school because they give a guy with multiple super bowl rings a 10 year deal.

Niger Angelus · 11-03-2005, 02:38 AM

They are catholic, seriously what do you expect?

buckeye · 11-03-2005, 03:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Beebs:
Is was and always will be a racist school because they give a guy with multiple super bowl rings a 10 year deal.

A 10 Year contract i about shit myself when i saw the news. 10 year contracts are unheard of, its double the typical 5 year extension. The only other coach that has a 10 year contract is Mack Brown, and he has already proved himself in the realm of college football. Like BDH said, aside from USC and MSU whom ND both lost to, they dont play anyone with any credibility.

Ignoring the "race" issue think of everything Charlie has yet to prove, and what these coaches already have, how can you possibliy justify it? You simply can't unless he starts to win on a level consistent with Pete Carroll, Bob Stoops, and Mack Brown.

Edit: On a sidenote, it was a last minutetouchdown pass that preserved OSU's win over Purdue in 2002. But i dont think i heard any analysts try and put Purdue on OSU's level, thats why i dont understand the justification of the USC game as a reason for the contract extension/high ranking.

[ November 03, 2005, 12:23 AM: Message edited by: buckeye ]

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 11-03-2005, 03:38 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by buckeye:
10 year contracts are unheard of, its double the typical 5 year extension.

I heard it was actually triple!

victim · 11-03-2005, 03:42 AM

Wah wah wah... and we were racist when Ty Willingham got hired in the first place too, right?

No respectable journalist, or anyone else familiar with this situation would call Weis's extension a racist move. A little excessive, perhaps, but regardless of skin color. You can't be serious.

Ty Willingham didn't have the NFL pursuing him (a lot of college coaches don't). Charlie Weis does. Rumors that your head coach is grabbing the money and running at the end of the season are bad for morale and dreadful for recruiting. From day one, Weis expressed his plans to finish out his career here, so why not put in paper? And while you're at it, why not use those NFL flirtations as leverage when negotiating your contract?

The claims of racism against an institution like Notre Dame are sensationalism. With the accusations some throw around, you'd begin to think there were segregated bathrooms in the stadium. Across the quad, Touchdown Jesus is saluting a confederate flag as minorities are lynched at his feet. Shut up.

edit: the onion article is hilarious

[ November 03, 2005, 12:56 AM: Message edited by: victim ]

Beebs · 11-03-2005, 03:45 AM

Im sure people thought of Purdue as better than before that, which is reasonable no?

It comes down to a few simple things
1 Kevin White getting calls from NFL owners who wanted Weis
2 Weis stating he wants to retire at ND
3 ND and Weis do something big and showy, albeit pretty meaningless considering that ND can STILL fire him and Weis can STILL leave; sports contracts are contracts of convience and don't mean too much

There was no real reason to believe Ty was going anywhere, and everybody in the world seems to think Weis is simply a better coach. ND at least gave a black guy, with no real record of note, a shot, any other schools gonna step up and do the same?

Those schools also don't have the spending power of ND, or simply don't think their coach is worth what ND thinks Weis is, Economics 101 if you are interested.

11-02-2005, 02:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
DJ FC Guest Posts: n/a	Notre Dame Football Announces Improvements To Its Storied History <font size="1">October 27, 2005</font> SOUTH BEND, IN — With their football renaissance derailed, at least for the moment, by a current 5-2 record that includes losses to rivals USC and unranked Michigan State, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have elected to improve in the one area where they still outclass all other college football teams: their legendary history. <font size="1"> ENLARGE IMAGE</font> "Although we have great hopes for the future of our football program, Notre Dame has greater hopes for a facet of that program that is far more important to our university: our past," Notre Dame athletic director Kevin White said in a press conference Monday. "With that in mind, we will be making improvements, additions, and revisions that, like our history itself, have been 118 years in the making." Notre Dame's history, perhaps the most storied in sports, already includes such legends as Knute Rockne, George Gipp, and Joe Theismann. However, once the program's history has been revised, it will also include Hall of Famers such as Bo Jackson, formerly of Auburn; Archie Griffin, formerly of Ohio State; and Red Grange, formerly of Illinois. "All these Hall of Fame players are definitely worthy of going down as the greatest in history," Notre Dame coach Charles Weis said. "And since the College Football Hall of Fame is right down the road from us here in South Bend, we can easily make sure that the history they go down in is Notre Dame's." Weis said that, while he certainly inherited a good history when he took the coaching job in South Bend, he wants to make that history a great one. "I fully intend to be the primary architect of Notre Dame history's return to prominence and relevance," Weis said. "I inherited a program that had only won 11 national championships between 1924 and 2005. I promise you that, by this time next year, the Fighting Irish will have won at least 10 more in that same time period." Director White and Coach Weis said that although the improvement of the 1887-2005 seasons will not be finalized until later this year, they have already begun drawing up plans for the historical revision. Some of the highlights of Notre Dame's new history: 1869: The first college football game is played this year, on Nov. 6, between Princeton and Rutgers, with the understanding that the winner will go on to play Notre Dame later in the afternoon for the national championship 1887: University board approves the Athletic Department's request for a new sports team, and Notre Dame football is officially born on the playing fields of South Bend, IN, the same year as future Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz is born in West Virginia 1936: The Fighting Irish football squad travels to Nazi Germany to represent America at the Berlin Olympics; ND split end Jesse Owens gains 187 yards and scores three touchdowns in a 42-17 gold-medal-winning rout of the heavily favored Rommel-coached SS squad 1943: With the boys fighting World War II overseas, the women of Notre Dame take the reins of the football team and pummel the notorious draft-dodging Michigan Wolverines to bring home another national title to South Bend 1944: In December, the Notre Dame defense successfully holds off a German advance to win the Battle of the Bulge; meanwhile, in the Pacific theater, the Irish offense invades and retakes the Philippines; the team finishes the season ranked #2 in all polls 1956: Future Notre Dame quarterback and six-time Heisman Trophy winner Joe Montana is on June 11 in New Eagle, PA of a vestal virgin born 1957: Notre Dame quarterback Paul Hornung, in a vote that remains controversial to this very day, splits the Heisman Trophy with the man who is now widely regarded as the best football player of all time, halfback Jim Brown of Notre Dame 1961: 31 points down in the fourth quarter of an away game against highly ranked Ohio State, Notre Dame, led by 12-year-old freshman phenom Joe Theismann, scores 42 points to win in overtime 1970: Notre Dame turns down offers from the ACC, the Big Ten, and the National Football League, electing to remain a Division I independent 1975: Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, an undersized fourth-string transfer student, is allowed to dress for and play in the last and only game of his college career; in the final moments of the game, "Rudy" tackles the Georgia Tech quarterback, forcing a fumble which rolls into the end zone and is recovered for an Irish victory; Notre Dame jumps up 23 spots in the polls for a share of the national championship; Ruettiger is awarded the Butkus and Nagurski trophies 1984: In the last seconds of the national championship at the Orange Bowl, Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie's last-second Hail Mary pass is intercepted in the end zone by Notre Dame cornerback Deion Sanders and returned 106 yards for the winning touchdown 1991: All-time Notre Dame scoring leader Jerome Bettis is given the nickname "The Bus" not only for his great size and reliability, but also for his ability to put the entire Fighting Irish team on his back and carry them to away games as far away as Florida and California 2005: The Oct. 15 victory of the Fighting Irish over #1 ranked USC, 27-31, is marred somewhat when Trojan Matt Leinart, who attempts to run the ball into the end zone in a last-second quarterback sneak, gets hit by the entire Notre Dame defense and is killed instantly as time runs out
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11-02-2005, 11:25 AM	#3 (permalink)
DJ FC Guest Posts: n/a	Damn. They didn't show it to me.
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11-02-2005, 06:46 PM	#5 (permalink)
BigDongedHoe Sex Kitten Milf fuuucck Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 3,704 Internets: 55974	Notre Dame is so fuckign gay, the fans are so cock in the ass obsessed with their history and tradition its mind boggling. I'd like the whole entire University to please remove there lips from Charlie Weis' ass and leave there ego's behind them because they are a low classless university. An african american Willingham goes 8-0 and nothing happens. A caucasian Charlie Weis goes 5-2 and the sky is falling, the planets are aligning, Notre Dame will dominate college football for the next century, and he gets a contract extension. Fuck the Irish and fuck the crew cut.
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11-02-2005, 07:08 PM	#6 (permalink)
THEINCREDIBLEdork Emperor Meow Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 9,348 Internets: 290966	So you do admit willingham was black?
	#YOLO

11-03-2005, 01:20 AM	#8 (permalink)
GNasty Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Btown Posts: 72 Internets: 10	I think Ty got what he deserved. Started 8-0, big deal. Coach of the year, who cares. Sure he won some games, but do you want your team coached by a Negro? Bring in the fat white guy. Give him five years. I mean, he lost two games at home but still, look at all the ranked teams he beat. Michigan, Purdue, Pitt. None of them turned out to be frauds. Shake down that thunder! Plus Weis won superbowls in the NFL as a coordinator, thats worth another five years (don't want him to go pro along with Quinn).
	G Nasty is the King of the Block!

11-02-2005, 02:55 AM	#2 (permalink)
Beebs Poor Sport Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Indianapolis / Middlebury / Long Lake Posts: 5,306 Internets: 127341	I showed that to your roommate, I get all of the credit, all of it.

11-02-2005, 12:37 PM	#4 (permalink)
Ugly Bastard Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 13,643 Internets: 247330	You guys are so gay. -UB

11-03-2005, 02:31 AM	#10 (permalink)
Beebs Poor Sport Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Indianapolis / Middlebury / Long Lake Posts: 5,306 Internets: 127341	Is was and always will be a racist school because they give a guy with multiple super bowl rings a 10 year deal.

11-03-2005, 02:38 AM	#11 (permalink)
Niger Angelus We still believe. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Indiana Posts: 4,697 Internets: 216	They are catholic, seriously what do you expect?
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11-03-2005, 03:42 AM	#14 (permalink)
victim Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 985 Internets: 10	Wah wah wah... and we were racist when Ty Willingham got hired in the first place too, right? No respectable journalist, or anyone else familiar with this situation would call Weis's extension a racist move. A little excessive, perhaps, but regardless of skin color. You can't be serious. Ty Willingham didn't have the NFL pursuing him (a lot of college coaches don't). Charlie Weis does. Rumors that your head coach is grabbing the money and running at the end of the season are bad for morale and dreadful for recruiting. From day one, Weis expressed his plans to finish out his career here, so why not put in paper? And while you're at it, why not use those NFL flirtations as leverage when negotiating your contract? The claims of racism against an institution like Notre Dame are sensationalism. With the accusations some throw around, you'd begin to think there were segregated bathrooms in the stadium. Across the quad, Touchdown Jesus is saluting a confederate flag as minorities are lynched at his feet. Shut up. edit: the onion article is hilarious [ November 03, 2005, 12:56 AM: Message edited by: victim ]
	get off my internet!!!

11-03-2005, 03:45 AM	#15 (permalink)
Beebs Poor Sport Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Indianapolis / Middlebury / Long Lake Posts: 5,306 Internets: 127341	Im sure people thought of Purdue as better than before that, which is reasonable no? It comes down to a few simple things 1 Kevin White getting calls from NFL owners who wanted Weis 2 Weis stating he wants to retire at ND 3 ND and Weis do something big and showy, albeit pretty meaningless considering that ND can STILL fire him and Weis can STILL leave; sports contracts are contracts of convience and don't mean too much There was no real reason to believe Ty was going anywhere, and everybody in the world seems to think Weis is simply a better coach. ND at least gave a black guy, with no real record of note, a shot, any other schools gonna step up and do the same? Those schools also don't have the spending power of ND, or simply don't think their coach is worth what ND thinks Weis is, Economics 101 if you are interested.