I'm free to hate Notre Dame once again.

I used to hate Notre Dame football with a passion. Outside of Rudy, of course.

But then they went and hired Tyrone Willingham. And I started to like the program.

And the they went and make Ty Willingham the first coach in the school's history to be fired before his contract had expired.

And it hasn't even taken long for Notre Dame to look like even bigger idiots than they did when they fired Ty Willingham.

First, Notre Dame is spurned by former Notre Dame assistant coach and hot name of the year in Utah head coach Urban Meyer. Urban decided that Florida was a much better job. With the rich recruiting grounds in Florida's backyard and all the talent that Ron Zook had recruited and not been able to mold into a consistent winner (Maybe we should call Zook Mack Brown v2.0?), what's not to like? Especially since it's not like Florida has admissions people that will tell the football coach that a player can't be admitted.

Then Mooch says that staying with the Detroit Lions and working for one of the worst GM's in the NFL is a better gig. I know it pays a lot better, but come on.......

Then Bobby Petrino says that staying in Louisville with them entering the Big East next season is better than Notre Dame. And who could blame him. Have you seen how bad the Big East was this year? Petrino must be licking his chops as he could go to a BCS bowl every year until the BCS wakes up and gives the Big East the boot.

The best one could be Jim Fassel saying that the job as the Ravens' special assistant and a possible NFL coordinator or head coaching job is better than taking the Notre Dame job.

And today, the outgoing Notre Dame president says that the only time he's been embarrased to be a part of Notre Dame was last week when Willingham was ousted and that he wasn't a part of the process.

Bottom line, Notre Dame has become a legend in it's own mind. George O'Leary was Notre Dame's like 3rd or 4th choice. And he left under a dark cloud. And so they moved on to Willingham who was their 5th choice or so. And now he's out. And Notre Dame is again down to Plan E or F.

The one name that Notre Dame doesn't want to wait for, but makes a ton of sense is New England Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weis.

Weis is a Notre Dame grad. He almost killed himself trying to lose weight to make him more attractive to possible employers in an attempt to get a head coaching job. He's worked for Bill Belicheck and Bill Parcells. He knows what it takes to win in the NFL.

What's not to like, you ask?

Notre Dame doesn't want to wait until after the Patriots are ousted from the playoffs for their next head coach to start working.

Well, isn't throwing away what is likely to be a bad recruiting class anyway worth getting a guy that could possibly be the guy that could turn the program around?

I think so.

But, I'd probably root for Weis because of all he's gone through to become a head coach. And I'd rather root against Notre Dame. And their myopic fans.