So you claim your last coach should be fired because he couldn’t recruit well enough. Then you proceed to hire some supposed offensive guru from the pros hoping to restore dignity to your football program. The new coach manages to use those “inferior” recruits left over from your last one to reach the BCS promise land. And when all those players recruited by your ex-coach has left, your new coach couldn’t coach his way out of a cereal box. And in the ultimate slap in the face, that supposed offensive guru currently holds a worst record than your last coach setting all kinds of new lows for the program and happily collecting record paychecks along the way. When you thought Notre Dame couldn’t fall any further, feel free to laugh this one up.

Weis and Willingham, BOTH on the Irish payroll

That last coach you couldn’t run out of South Bend fast enough? He’s still collecting a paycheck courtesy of Irish boosters, fans and alumni THREE years after his dismissal. In an AIG like fashion, Notre Dame paid Ty Willingham $650,000 from July 1st, 2007 to June 30th, 2008, the third straight year he was paid that sum. The least Ty could have done in return was hand a few games to the Irish when he coached the Huskies, which he did.

It also left the former coach, who has since been fired by the University of Washington, as the second-highest paid employee on Notre Dame’s payroll who is not an officer, director or trustee. The numbers came from the school’s latest Form 990 federal tax form, which was obtained by The Journal Gazette on Wednesday.

And, for the third straight year, Willingham’s compensation is higher than the base salary of current head coach Charlie Weis.

That’s right. Charlie Weis receives a base salary of $640,851 (not including speaking apprearances, appareal and radio deals) straight from the university which is still a few thousand dollars short of a man no longer coaching at Notre Dame, or coaching period (Ty Willingham has since been fired by the University of Washington).

With so many Notre Dame graduates in finance and politics, are you even surprised we are in this economic hole the way they handle things like this? But hey, at least it isn’t MY taxpayer money going to waste when it comes to this fiasco. Notre Dame can not afford to fire Charlie Weis even if he doesn’t win a single game this season especially with the hefty new contract they prematurely awarded him a few games into his career.

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