The Ty Effect

Over the past few days a lot of college football "experts" have been updating their pre-season top 25 lists now that most spring games have taken place. What simply cracks me up is that Notre Dame is not ranked in any pre-season top 25 list. That's not to say that I don't mind - playing the underdog role is always preferable to oodles of unreal expectations - but have you ever heard of a team being the consensus #1 one season, finishing that season at 10-3 (and playing in a BCS game), then being unranked the next? It's almost unbelievable. You pretty much have to chalk it up to a lack of depth - we simply graduated all our (offensive) studs and are left with the dregs of Ty Willingham's recruiting, ahem, efforts. I think there are something like 6 true seniors on scholarship, which is a joke. Regardless, I'm looking forward to a low-key season in which nobody expects anything from the Irish, at least until they win a couple games and everyone immediately moves them from unranked to #6. But we could be worse off, we could still have Ty as our head coach. Have a fun season Huskie fans! Shoot for the moon, i.e. 2 wins...