Wake up the echoes

OK, I'm ready to hear the boos. I'm actually a Notre Dame fan. Scary, I know. The biggest difference is that I am a fan of Notre Dame football, NOT NOT NOT Chuckie Weis.

So you think that ND and Weis are one and the same. Wrong. Weis was brought in by the ND administration because they were impatient with Ty Willingham's progress. Well, I truly believe ND would have won 9-10 games in 2005 regardless of who was head coach. No one seems to believe me on that one.

Don't get me wrong. I hope Penn State crushes ND tomorrow night. I hope the margin of victory is wider than against FIU. But I still like the Golden Dome, the Four Horsemen and all that jazz. I just like PSU better. That's all.

In fact, when I was in high school, I watched Rudy every so often. My favorite part of the whole movie - next to the crowd when the team runs out of the tunnel - was when Rudy's dad walks into the stadium and the band plays, not a ND fight song, but The Nittany Lion! I didn't even know it at the time, but I still liked that song best.

No Kiddin'.