Despite the “decided schematic advantage” that he has brought to South Bend (best seen here and here), Charlie Weis’ tenure at Notre Dame has not gone quite as well as he and the Notre Dame faithful had hoped.
Let’s see, there was that 3-8 record in 2007 that featured losses to Air Force and Navy, and then last season’s 7-6 mark that was highlighted by a loss to Syracuse (a football program on such solid footing that it turned to a former Duke basketball player to play quarterback this year).Â
The putrid aftertaste of this 10-14 two-year span is most notably seen in this encouraging billboard that a group of ex-Irish football players bought in South Bend before this season started.
But just when you thought that things could not get worse in South Bend, that Weis’ seat could not possibly get hotter, there is this: Notre Dame’s 207-game sellout streak, which dates back all the way to 1973 (around the same time that this photo was taken), is in jeopardy of being broken this weekend.
Update: Well that didn’t take long. Â The sellout streak is alive, according to ESPN. I’d like to think we had something to do with it…but I know we didn’t.
That’s right, there are still gobs of tickets available for this weekend’s showdown between the Washington Huskies and Notre Dame Fighting Clausens according to ESPN Chicago.
According to the university, this may actually be one Irish struggle that is not Weis’ fault though, as the empty seats are purportedly the result of the University of Washington returning a portion of their alloted seats.
Still, if the sellout streak is somehow broken during this most critical of moments for Weis, it certainly will be included in the brown paper bag of $h!t dung that gets left on Weis’ doorstep and lit aflame come season’s end…barring a miraculous entry in the BCS.
So, because we are true humanitarians here at Midwest Sports Fans, and don’t like kicking people when they’re down, we are calling you, the readers, to step up and support Charlie Weis and his long suffering school.
Below is a link to StubHub that will allow you to buy Notre Dame-Washington tickets that we hope you will take advantage of; and no, not because we make a small percentage off each sale, but rather so that Touchdown Jesus does not have to see another proud Irish tradition — the home sellout — come to an end.
You know, like winning seasons, All-Americans, and New Year’s Day bowl games have.
- Notre-Dame Washington tickets as low as $53
Please MSF readers, help keep Irish eyes a-smiling.
(P.S. In the interest of full disclosure, we will reveal what could have been the deviousness behind our own little schematic advantage: tickets from StubHub are actually resale tickets, and thus will not go towards Notre Dame getting its sellout.)
(P.S.S. For the record, I was just informed by twitterer @g-twitty that Nebraska recently passed 300 in their consecutive sellout streak. So the Irish aren’t close to any records or anything.)
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* – Charlie Weis photo credit: Christian Petersen / Getty Image via NBC Sports
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