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Number 1 Undergrad Business School

Businessweek just named the Mendoza College of Business the best undergrad business school in the universe. It is the first time Businessweek has bestowed the top spot to Notre Dame. Clearly, they didn’t perform these rankings when I was there.

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Been working a ton and haven’t had time to follow ND sports much. Hopefully Spring practice gets here soon.

The Notre Dame Marching Band, The Band of the Fighting Irish, is featured in this kickass video by OK Go. Check it out:

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It is laughable and embarrassing to hear some Notre Dame fans call the coaching search a failure since ND did not secure one of the big three(Saban, Stoops, and Meyer.) Fans that feel the Kelly hire is a “disaster” or “failure” are idiotic. If you want to see a failure, watch how USC conducts its coaching search to replace Carroll.

Meyer’s health issues show that the average message board fan knows about 5% of what they need to know about assessing a coaching hire. Regardless, Kelly at $2.5mil a year is a much better hire than Stoops at $5mil and concessions.

We normally like NdNation.com but they can get it wrong often. The Crow of Truth calls them out on the IRT shoutbox on the assertion that Notre Dame failed by “settling” for Kelly and not getting one of the big three. Here is the Crow’s rant in full. Read it from the bottom up:

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o crowoftruth : End of rant.
o crowoftruth : And hopefully some ND fans will be slightly smaller D-bags in the future.
o crowoftruth : ND is great, has many special things, and can play pretty good football again on a consistent basis with the right coach. Hopefully Kelly is that guy.
o crowoftruth : Then, they puss out and just delete any thread that points out that they were f’ing stupid and arrogant to think that we had a God given right to get him.
o crowoftruth : But the people that really think we have a God given right to get him, and that failure to get him was a failure of the University is f’ing stupid.
o crowoftruth : Summary: I wanted Stoops. I was excited when it looked like that may be a possibility (mostly because it would be such an unprecedented coups).
o crowoftruth : You can’t beat my at my own game, so I’m quiting and taking my ball home.
o crowoftruth : But what a bunch of pussies.
o crowoftruth : I know it is their website so they can control whatever is said on it. I’m all for private property and I have no right to complain about what they do with their private property.
o crowoftruth : And they don’t even have the integrity or balls to listen to someone raise a valid question about their view about how things should go.
o crowoftruth : They have a completely unrealistic and self inflated view of the program.
o crowoftruth : That is why people hate Notre Dame fans.
o crowoftruth : So what does ND Nation do? Promptly take that shit down.
o crowoftruth : Again, assuming no sanctions, USC is an objectively better place to coach in just about every facet that I can think of. And they certainly are serious about doing whatever it takes to win football games (like paying players).
o crowoftruth : So someone astutely asked, assuming nothing major comes from the NCAA, why USC shouldn’t expect to hire one of the big three?
o crowoftruth : They pissed and moaned that Kelly was “2nd Tier” and “small-timey” and that if ND did get one of the big 3 it wasn’t serious about winning football games.
o crowoftruth : As I assume many IRT readers are also ND Nation readers, I assume you saw the extensive “If we don’t get Stoops, Meyer or Saban, ND has failed and should quit playing football” shit spouted by the powers that be there.
o crowoftruth : I’m squarely in the wait and see camp on Kelly.
o crowoftruth : So I’m going to go on a rant against ND Nation here because if I do it there, they’ll just delete it.

Pete Carroll is heading to Seattle in one of the most baffling hires of our generation. Petey is getting out of Troy while the getting is good. It is only a matter of time before the NCAA drops the hammer on the cheating Trojans.

First, the Seahawks have made a terrible hire. Pete was “successful” at USC only by breaking the rules. And was he really that successful? The supposed domination of the Trojans brought USC only one National Title in all of those years. Yeah, they owned ND during his time there, but, again, when you are breaking the rules and cheating at every turn, it isn’t quite a level playing field.

Second, you would have to be a fool to go play for USC right now. The NCAA is breathing down their neck and any ill-gotten payoffs(see Bush, Mayo, and McKnight) are surely not going to go unnoticed. Any recruit that is considering USC better take another long, hard look at the situation.

Third, who in their right mind would go coach at USC right now? Sanctions. Unrealistic expectations. Terrible campus. USC is going to get stuck with a grade C coach. Another reason recruits and current players should rethink their situations.

Fourth, Notre Dame needs to take USC off the schedule until they get their act together. Under Petey’s reign they have become the “U” of the 2000s. With a rap sheet like the one Pete’s thugs have compiled, USC doesn’t deserve the privilege of playing Notre Dame every year.

USC is Doomed

The L. A. Times is finally realizing what we’ve been saying for years: “USC football is dirty, crumbling or has lost its focus”

It’s funny how people around the country are just now waking up to the fact that USC is corrupt.

Reggie Bush getting paid to play is a fact. USC owning the police is a fact. Joe McKnight receiving a car from a booster is a fact.

All these facts along with many others add up to a program that has spun out of control under Pete Carroll’s watch.

USC needs to clean house. Pete Carroll and the AD should be let go immediately. The NCAA should step in finally and do what it should have done years ago. Until USC cleans up its mess, Notre Dame should cease playing the Trojans.

Merry Christmas.

USC is the Tiger Woods of college football. How many more ways can they cheat?

This is getting old and silly at the same time.

Joe McKnight has been getting illegal benefits while at USC. Wow. Shocking.

USC is the Ohio Stat of the West. Here’s another feather in Pete Carroll’s out-of-control program.

When is Notre Dame gonna stop playing the crooked Trojans?

USC tailback Joe McKnight has been driving a 2006 Land Rover owned by a Santa Monica, Calif., businessman, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday.

USC is investigating McKnight’s use of the vehicle to find out if it is in violation NCAA rules. It is against NCAA rules for athletes to accept benefits from agents or marketing representatives, or to accept “extra benefits” based on their ability.

I’ll bet anyone a pair of diamond earrings the NCAA looks the other way.