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SOUTH BEND -- University of Notre Dame junior quarterback Jimmy Clausen and junior wide receiver Golden Tate shared the 2009 most valuable player award, presented by the Notre Dame Monogram Club on Friday night at the 89th Notre Dame Football Banquet.  

The Fighting Irish officially pulled the plug on all bowl consideration Friday, announced athletic director Jack Swarbrick, and that’s the best news that can come out of South Bend if you care about Notre Dame. “After meetings involving our coaching staff as well as the leadership group representing our football team, we have made the decision [...]  

The Notre Dame football season is officially over. Athletic director Jack Swarbrick announced Friday that the school has decided against going to a bowl game with a 6-6 record, citing "unique circumstances." He didn't elaborate, but Swarbrick fired coach Charlie Weis after five seasons earlier this week and the search for a replacement is under way.  

There is nothing wrong with Notre Dame football that the right coach cannot fix. This is not a problem caused by academic standards or Midwestern climate or a lack of conference affiliation. This is a coaching problem.  

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As athletic director Jack Swarbrick and the Irish scour the country to sign their next head coach, an even bigger deal involving Notre Dame football is already done. Comcast and NBC Universal announced their heavily-anticipated merger Thursday morning, combining the resources of the nation's largest cable and Internet service provider with a broadcast corporation that reaches approximately 112 million American homes. One of the driving forces...  

Many Notre Dame fans are clamoring for the ND Muckety Mucks to obtain one of the brightest shining stars in the college football solar system. Cincinnati Bearcat head coach Brian Kelly, 48, is, by far, the choice of most for the vacated job left by the firing of Charlie Weis. If the Fighting Irish faithful is certain Kelly will bring instant success to a mediocre team, they need look no further than Ann Arbor. Near the end of the 2007 season...  

As an Oklahoma fan, I think Bob Stoops is a tremendous football coach. There are plenty of great ones out there–Pete Carroll, Urban Meyer, Nick Saban–but, dollars for donuts, I think Stoops may be the best of all. Based on what I've witnessed this week, I wonder if I may be underrating him. Like a smitten geek pestering the school sexpot, persistent Notre Dame fans continue to assert that they have a chance to woo Stoops to South Bend, despite...  

The Notre Dame Head Football coach hire is far more complex than the Internet hype on  Stoops, Meyer, etc would indicate. The saying "he's a winner" carries less and less weight in college football as coaching salaries have gone from five to seven digits and high school recruiting rankings are almost as important as the win—loss record. So when ND athletic director Jack Swarbrick and company go into their private jet and head around the...  

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Notre Dame Watch: Charlie Weis ousted as football coach In what is only the latest in a long string of upsets and bad news for Notre Dame fans, the Notre Dame athletic department announced head coach Charlie Weis will not be retained for next year’s season. Weis’ firing comes after a 6-6 season that wrapped up with a loss against Stanford, its fourth loss in a row, and just a week after his starting quarterback was sucker-punched outside of...  

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (MCT) — When he concluded enumerating the reasons for dismissing his football coach Monday and setting the framework for finding a new one, Jack Swarbrick alluded to the Notre Dame legacy of Rockne and Leahy and Parseghian and Holtz, and his excitement about buoying that heritage.  

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