1 I'll reserve judgment until next year. They play a bitch of a schedule and Willingham left him nothing on the offensive line.

2 Yeah, West Point and Navy are powerhouses....

3 They haven't played either yet. Just Georgia Tech, Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State, BC, USC, Purdue, and UCLA -- who have a combined record of 44-15. I'll put ND's strength of schedule against anyone in the country up to this point.

And the two service academies this year (AF and Navy -- Army's not on the schedule this year) are a combined 10-7.

The two easy games are Duke and Stanford -- a combined 4-12 record at this point. Stanford is under new management and beat USC. I'm thinking we might split those, and might split the service academies.

Lou Holtz once joked that at Notre Dame he could go 0-11 and have the 12th best team in the country. I'm not saying that the Irish are good this year -- far from it. But consider that Weis lost most of his 2004 recruiting time (he was in the Super Bowl), and he has only had two full recruiting classes so far.

Like I said, I'm not passing judgment for another year.

4 Best one of all time: "Tark the Shark" mania when he was announced as head coach of the San Antonio Spurs. He crashed and burned immediately. The NBA is not college basketball.

5 McLaren-Mercedes was fined $100 Million by the FIA for possession of a nearly-full set of this year's Ferrari technical documents. Belichick's a piker.

6 Two words: Jeff George

Two more words: Ryan Leaf

7 GH: Give his full name, "Jeff NOOOOOO! We Hired THAT Loserjerkbag George"

8 Romeo Crennel.

9 WAHOOO!!!!! GO MIDSHIPMAN!!!!!