McLovin gets suspended, Lou isn't a congressman, and more watch lists (LOTD 8/6)

Back from vacation, rested and ready to post. There's quite a bit of news that came up in the interim, so I'll keep this LOTD post to Notre Dame news and start up with general college football news on the next one, as it happens.

Big news from the past week are the comments from homophobic slime-bucket Hawaii head coach Greg McMackin, who referred to a dance the Irish players did at a banquet as a "little faggot dance." Nicely done from the highest paid employee of the state of Hawaii. Hawaii suspended the coach for 30 days without pay, which is a good start. It would have been better if they made this tool stay in a piano crate on the street for 30 days, but I guess we can't all have our way.

McMackin called Coach Weis to apologize for the remarks, Weis accepted the apology, and the ND head coach has apparently "moved on". The SBT's Al Lesar brings up a good point: George O'Leary made a fudge on his resume, something that had no effect on his coaching ability, and was fired. McMackin offended a large number of the population, demonstrating terrible decision making for any public figure, and got a 30 day suspension. McMackin should have been fired, there's no doubt about that in my mind.

Moving on to more positive news (you gotta stay positive), two Notre Dame players were named to post-season watch lists. Jimmy Clausen was named to the O'Brien Award watch list as a candidate for best QB of the year. Furthermore, Armando Allen was named to the Doak Walker Award watch list, given to the best running back of the year. Clausen's is justified, as he has been tabbed as a Heisman darkhorse heading into the season. Allen, however... well, maybe not. Allen has been a bit of a disappointment to this point, choosing to run out of bounds rather than initiate contact on most of his rushes. Allen came in with big expectations revolving around his lightning speed, but he's never really adjusted well to the college game. Maybe he will improve with a better offensive line, but he still has a lot to prove.

There were rumors for a while that Lou Holtz would try to lisp his way to a seat in Congress, but Louuuuu has denied the rumors. Lou apparently met with some top Republicans in Washington and discussed the idea of making a run at Suzanne Kosmas' seat, but Lou came out when reached for comment and said, "I’m working for ESPN. I don’t want to run for Congress." Jesus, does the WWL really hold that type of power?

Finally, the Irish picked up a commitment from outside linebacker Prince Shembo. I'll have a full commitment profile up soon, but I can't imagine you are itching for the news that broke three days ago. That's why newspapers are failing.