Your daily dose of idiocy

The Daily Bandwagon seems to have a slightly higher-than-usual idiocy content rating today. First on the docket is the Urban Meyer-to-Notre Dame speculation. Shanoff seems to feel a strange urgency that Meyer should not stick around Utah to coach in their BCS bowl:

If Meyer wants to be at ND more than he wants to be at Utah, he owes it to Notre Dame to get there ASAP (literally, this weekend) to start recruiting and rebuilding. He should not stay in Utah to coach the Utes in their BCS bowl.

Utah's gate-crashing destiny? He'd be coaching it for his own ego gratification -- reward for past accomplishments (and ultimately meaningless; it's not like they're playing for a national title).

He's popular with players and fans, but they should wake up and smell the Irish coffee -- he wants to be elsewhere. So let him go.

Yeah, that's right Dan. That's the only reason Meyer would want to coach the Utes in their bowl game. Pure ego. Personal relationships with players, the hard work they've endured all year since the beginning of spring practice leading up to the accomplishment of this goal, the experience of being in a big venue--all meaningless.

And that goes double for the game itself, which, as you point out, isn't even for the national championship. Because that's the sole purpose for the entire existence of college football--to anoint one team champion. Since there's no playoff, and a team is de facto eliminated from national championship contention after two losses, maybe we should start encouraging teams to just fold their tent once they lose twice. And while we're at it, since Utah has proven that a non-BCS conference team has no shot at the national championship even if they go undefeated, why don't we just terminate all programs in non-BCS conferences? (Hmm, actually, these are pretty good arguments. For something else, that is.)

And why are you wasting so much breath on why he should go to South Bend immediately if "he wants to be elsewhere"? Well, uh, maybe it's because Meyer himself has stated that he wants to coach the bowl game. So explain to me who's letting who go? I'm a little confused.

Moving on:

I'd rather have Norm Chow as my head coach than Urban Meyer, not that Notre Dame is listening to me ...

(Gee, I can't imagine why ND wouldn't listen to a guy whose wisdom rarely extends beyond 24 hours.)

This is a valid opinion, I suppose, but I doubt that many share it. I point it out because we just might get a chance to see who is the better coach, if Chow gets the job at Stanford. Another opportunity for a failed Quickie prediction (yawn).

I for one don't think Chow would be a great head coach. But maybe Shanoff is all proud of himself for backing Chow because in yesterday's column he labeled Chow "minority coaching's next star." Funny, I don't remember Chow being referred to as a minority the entire time he was at BYU (what, 18 years?). I don't think most people in Utah even knew he was a minority (I mean, c'mon, since when are Hawaiians minorities?). Who's more color-blind, Dan? The sophisticated espn.com columnist with his finger on the pulse, or those Utah yokels?

Speaking of which, Shanoff's next great line is in the Quickie section which really is labeled "The Bandwagon":

Who's got the momentum:
Ty Willingham: Accepts blame, makes ND look even worse

Yeah, Dan. Once again, that's what it's all about. Who looks good, who looks bad. And completely Willingham's intentions, too--to make Nostrodamus look as bad as possible. This is a slap in the face to Willingham. Sometimes class is just class.

I'll close with one more idiocy from the column, but I won't respond to it because it's essentially the same argument I made above:

Final tally: ACC 9, Big 10 2. Not much of a "Challenge." But while the ACC may have unprecedented league quality, the only depth that really matters is who's No. 1; right now, the Big Ten has the team to beat in Illinois.