Close only counts......

I guess it was too much to ask that the Redskins pull out that game late last night. I loved the go for the kill shot at the end zone in theory. But I hated that Ramsey threw the ball to a double (and almost triple)-covered Chris Cooley.

But I loved the way Sean Taylor and the Skins defense laid a beat down on TO.

And if Shawn Springs plays this week, he'll get huge props from me. That his he took has got to show up on Jacked Up! tonight.

In other news, Charlie Weis gets the Notre Dame job. Maybe I can't hate them after all. And no matter what any talking head will say, hiring Weis was the right thing to do. Who cares if it messes up this year's recruiting class? Mack Brown or Bob Stoops would have struggled to put together a solid recruiting class at Notre Dame this year.

Hopefully Notre Dame will have a little patience and will put some of NBC's money into making the recruiting budget top notch and updating some of the oldest facilities in all of D-1A football.

I mean, Notre Dame finally figured out that they have to pay their head coach the going rate. Maybe now they'll figure out that they have to pay the going rate for facilities and the recruiting budget if they are to get Weis the horses he'll need to get the results the boosters will want.

But, I will have to root for Washington when they host Notre Dame early next season. The Huskies named Ty Willingham as their new head coach today.

To me, that almost made more sense than the Weis hire in South Bend. Willingham could win at Stanford. I can't imagine what he'll be like in Seattle.