A couple things.
The BCS-Harris Interactive group released its list of voters (PDF, Via B&G Sky). It, uh, stretches its credibility when you see Terry Bradshaw, Rocket Ismail, Steve Largent, Boomer Esiason and some of the other names on the list. I mean, I see a Kenny Roda listed. The same Kenny Roda who is a sports talker on WKNR in Cleveland (from Pittsburgh, went to Baldwin & Wallace, totally slurps Tressel and OSU)? Grife!
And yet they will almost assuredly ignore the forthcoming blogpoll.
There are a couple Pitt guys on the list: Foge Fazio and John Congemi.
As the first game starts getting closer, I need to look in on some Notre Dame stuff. Now, maybe, I’m not the right messenger to tell the Domers this, but I think some of the “analysis” is going a wee bit over the edge.
The Notre Dame depth charts are still fuzzy, and that’s largely by design — to keep players hungry, to keep Pitt head coach Dave Wannstedt guessing, to keep the media at arm’s length.
First-year coach Charlie Weis hasn’t just put his signature on the Notre Dame football program, he’s imposed a manifesto on it, changed its personality, created a new culture.
I know they have elevated him to super-duper-genius in South Bend, but this is a bit much. Of course the ND depth chart is vague at this point. So is Pitt’s (but I don’t read anybody suggesting some super-secret-masterful plan as the reason).
You have a new coach, new system, plenty of transfers and kids leaving the program, some injuries, position switches and just the unknown of a new season looming. Ever hear of Occam’s Razor? Look into it.
I don’t know, the more I think about it, the last time I remember a top assistant rising to a top job with all the accolades of “super-genius” on offense and a god-like ability to make a QB awesome. Who was that guy?
Hmm.
Totally different. I know. Unfair comparison. Weis is totally different. He’s unpredictable. He’s wild. He’s, he’s —
