I mean last year they went to a BCS bowl ( even though LSU destroyed them ) and they lost a couple of players but they had a good recruting season but they have been awful to look at this season. I mean even KANSAS is competing for a shot at a BCS title. Is Charlie Weis a bad coach ? Should they have kept Ty instead of firing him so quick?

Ty W did his job well and prepared players for the future. Weis used those players and now they are gone. Weis did not do his job by failing to prepare future players. Now he loses big with no end in sight. Chuck Weis must take the blame.

Because Brady Quinn left them. It is that simple.

Losing Brady Quinn.

They started recruititng intelligent athletes and the other major colleges can get away with the illiterates, so blame the academic policies of Notre dame...or better yet applaud them...the other schoold have little academic integrity when it comes to athletics.

Well, the players play the games, so I'd have to say them.
It also doesn't help when you wonder who the QB will be from week to week, only to have whoever it is totally stink up the field, anyway. They'd be just as well off to see if Joe Montana or Joe Theismann have any eligibility left.
They need to recruit better, that's for sure.

To begin with they did not deserve to go to a bca bowl game last year, look at their record compared to the others that played in one. Only one man can be held accountable and that would be the head football coach.Yes Ty should still be the coach but Notre Dame does not deserve him, good luck finding someone to take over that mess in South Bend that God himself cant help.

It's the fact the ND is so overrated every year. Yeah they have thier history but that's all it is HISTORY. In football it's all about what have you done for me lately? And ND hasn't done anything lately, they always crumble in the big games (USC, Mich, etc.) they simply aren't a team that can run with the pack anymore, hell this year they're a team that can run, period.

Dragon 17, take your blubbering argument to your momma.

Notre Dame has always been a tough academic institution but so are so very many others. And every college has similiar academic degrees.

Notre Dame keeps a very small enrollment, and that is what you are thinking of but let your skewed, soured stomach comment confuse athletes with the "student body".

Notre Dame needs to move into the B10 to create a conference championship.