The Mighty Continue To Fall
College Basketball, College Football
by Memphis Bengal on Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 4:04pm
Many who follow college sports were surprised to see Notre Dame athletic director Kevin White depart South Bend to take the same position at Duke earlier this summer.
Duke, while it possesses a very fine basketball program (men’s and women’s) and is marginally competitive in a few non-revenue sports, doesn’t have nearly the Q rating that Notre Dame does.
Well, if leaving Notre Dame for Duke isn’t bad enough for Irish fans, how about an alumnus spurning Notre Dame’s offer to become its new AD to stay at…SMU?
The scuttlebutt I’ve seen suggests that White left because of too much interference from the school’s administration which supposedly orchestrated the firing of Ty Willingham, the hiring of Charlie Weis and the absurd contract extension given to Weis after his first season at Notre Dame (which could go down in history as the most ill-advised contract ever given to a college coach, but I digress).
Given this news, you have to assume there’s at least some fire to go with the smoke. It will be interesting to see who Notre Dame is eventually able to entice to take the position.