Charlie Weis spoke candidly about the state of the Irish football program after they got waxed by LSU last night.
"Right now we're just a nice team," said Charlie Weis after LSU handed the Fighting Irish (10-3) their worst loss of the season, 41-14. "We're a nice, solid team, okay, but you want to be an upper echelon team."
John Walters' "reality check" piece at NBCSports.com reads like a Notre Dame fan making the definitive case that the Irish didn't deserve to be playing in the Sugar Bowl. Good stuff.
For a moment when the Irish were down 14-0 early, and Brady Quinn's eye black was getting a little smeared, I had a brief pang of sympathy for the kid from Columbus. He just didn't have enough help. It passed quickly, and didn't happen again, mind you. But I'm not gloating... a little schadenfreude maybe...because in the big picture, that game meant nothing.