Insurance Claims And Issues

Notre Dame's Ninth Loss, Coach's Five Fumbles ...

                              ... All In the 2007 Football Season.

Top Five Fumbles by a Notre Dame Head Coach in a Single Season, 2007:

1.  First Notre Dame football team to lose 9 games in one season, ever.

2.  First Notre Dame football team to lose back-to-back games to service academies since the Normandy Invasion in World War II.

3.  First time since the year that President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated, that a Notre Dame football team lost to a service academy by a margin so big.

4.  Two more sacks allowed and this Notre Dame football team will set a record for most sacks allowed in a single season (a record which has only been kept since 2005); and

5.  Three more losses at home with this head coach in just his third season (which is not over yet), than Head Coach Ara Parseghian's teams had in his 11 years as the Notre Dame Football Team's Head Coach.

Memo to the head coach at this time:
For God's Sake, Go. 

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Notre Dame Says: "Charlie, you're doing a heckuva job!"

 First U.S.C., now this.  There have been so many amazing developments to my beloved alma mater's football team this season, that I cannot remain silent and comment professionally only on Insurance Issues.  Occasionally, I cannot remain silent about my beloved Notre Dame.  Did I mention that I was a Quarterback at Notre Dame when Ara Parseghian was the Head Football Coach?  More on that another time ....

     For 43 games in a row, until yesterday, Notre Dame beat Navy.  You know, I almost rooted for the Navy football team, but I did not I will confess.  I still rooted for Notre Dame.   It is like rooting for the people of the Gulf Coast to outlive the Hurricanes, the damage, and the Brownies too.  You root because for you, that is the right thing to do.  Speaking of right things to do, what is the right thing to do when you are the head coach of a great University football team, you are in your third year, your won-loss record is 1-8, and ... you lose to a team your team has beaten 43 times in a row? Read comments to this article published by The South Bend Tribune, "This Ship Has Sunk".

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Notre Dame's Offense.

    The Notre Dame Fightin' Irish have not begun a football season with a record as bad as their present record, since 1960.  I yield to no-one in my support for the University of Notre Dame (Class of '73) and all things Notre Dame.  I even played Quarterback under Coach Ara Parseghian (more about that another time).

    This is the first time since I began my Web Logs many months ago that I am writing a post about something other than Insurance.  If my readers look for a "hook" to insurance, then there is this:  The shameful way in which the present leaders of the University of Notre Dame let Coach Tyrone Willingham go, after 3 years of a 5 year contract and with a better record than the present football coach, is the best 'insurance' for the job security of the present football coach. It is not likely that the people currently making decisions for the University of Notre Dame' will summon the courage to fire the current coach also after 3 years.

     Notre Dame's Offensive Coordinator of the recent past left to go to another university or college this year.  Notre Dame's offense is nonexistent this year.  The latest debacle came last Saturday at the hands of U.S.C.  "The score became lopsided thanks to Notre Dame's conservative offense, disjointed special teams and offensive linemen who at times were little more than turnstiles."  Pete Thamel, "Easy Win Over Irish Does Little For Trojans" (New York Times Sunday Nat'l Ed., Sports Section, P.7 col. 1 (Sunday, October 21, 2007).

    Coach Tyrone Willingham's recruits for Notre Dame's football team have almost all graduated after last year's comparatively successful football season.  This would be the first season of the current coach's recruits.

     Yet it all comes back to the coaching.  Does anyone have Tyrone Willingham's telephone number?  If you do, please give it to Notre Dame.

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