ND-Army is almost done, Lou goes to the HOF, Regis Benn can't find the end zone (LOTD 7/17)

Big news is the Spencer Boyd commitment (I'm sure you've heard by now). I'll have a commitment profile up following this post (promise), so consider yourself warned.

Lou Holtz will be inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame. Cheers to Lou (go ahead, say it with a lisp). Holtz is the only coach to lead six different schools to a bowl, but is more famous for being the last coach to get the Irish near a National Championship (not to mention actually GETTING that championship. Oh, and he led those six teams to bowl games by his second year as coach... everytime.

I think people tend to underestimate Lou based on the number of National Championships he owns in comparison to the other coaches considered to be "great". Lou did it in an entirely different era, an era with more disparity in talent than any time before. He got the Irish one kick from a National Championship game with a roster of guys under the new administration standards, finishing #2 that season. No coach has come close since. Our teams haven't come close to having the intensity and attitude of those Holtz led Irish teams. I hope the administration remembers this before running off a great head coach again in the future.

Moving on, the Notre Dame-Army game at Yankee Stadium is thiiiiis close to being final. It's all semantics at this point, which means that you would have to be in favor of the deal getting done if this was oddsmakers. It will be done in 2010, and it is still unknown which team will be the home team. Just to reiterate... bad deal if it's a home game, dandy if it's on the road.

Non-ND news... sorta. Arrelious Benn, who at one point was committed to play for the Irish (but shh... it was silent) and then pulled a Lorenzo Booker and went somewhere else, can't seem to get his feet in the endzone. Benn, who has had good receiving numbers with the Illini, only has 5 touchdowns in two seasons. His complaint?

"I catch the ball and I have to fight off half the defenders. It's going to be tough to get in the end zone when all the eyes are on you."

Well, Regis, I had a thought while reading your comments. Could it be possible that all the defenders' eyes wouldn't be on you if you were in a receiving corps that included Michael Floyd and Golden Tate? Perhaps you would have more touchdown receptions if you had a quarterback with a passing arm (Jimmy Clausen), instead of a quarterback that throws like Uncle Rico (Juice Williams). But hey, what do I know?

Finally, Eric Berry, the best safety in college football since Sean Taylor, is launching a Heisman campaign. Berry is the second DB to seriously consider the Heisman, following in Taylor "Ten Sacks, Ten Picks" Mays' lead. As HP says, Berry has a bit of a chance because of a) Being the star on a defense that will have to win games b) his freakish ability. Do I think he'll win it? No. But he could finish in the top 5 for sure.