Syracuse was ranked as one of the 10 worst college football teams a couple weeks ago, and they still proved to be too much to handle for Notre Dame, beating the Irish 24-23 this Saturday. Notre Dame fans all knew we couldn't beat a team with a winning season this year, but most held high hopes that we could at least beat their 'Scuse of a football team. Never before in Notre Dame history have the Irish lost to a team with 8 losses, or have lost 14 games in two seasons. For the last home game for the senior class, it marked the lowest point in Notre Dame football history, so even we are struggling to justify why our six meaningless wins have locked up a bowl game.

The only saving grace of the game was the 10 minutes during half-time in which seniors smuggled bags of marshmallows in to the stadium and started a marshmallow fight in the student section. The Notre Dame administration hates this harmless "tradition" as many students were searched for marshmallow bags at the student entrance. Ironically, as the ushers were so stringently confiscating marshmallows from students, they didn't realize that there was plenty of snow on the floor of the stands which could be fashioned into much harder, colder, and less delicious projectiles.

The Associated Press wrote an article entitled, "Notre Dame Fans Shower Players with Snowballs," but this drastically over-exaggerates the extent of snowballage. Let's be real, if you give drunk students snow, anonymous coverage in crowded stands, and the worst football game to date, then they are bound to send some snowballs flying. Truthfully, few snowballs were actually directed at the players, as 90% of them were thrown just within the student section. Cops on the sidelines got absolutely creamed but no one is complaining about that (for good reason). The camera man standing in a large crane in front of the students was hit pretty consistently too, but only because he has intruded on our view of the game for the last four years. But by the end of the game, most of the players that were hit were merely casualties of snowballs obviously intended for head coach Charlie Weis. It should be noted that these snowballs weren't actually made from the snow in stadium, but rather, students collected their own frozen tears and just tried to make Charlie feel some of their pain.

In a less aggressive way to tell Weis to resign, voice your opinion on whether or not Charlie Weis should continue coaching the Irish in the poll below. The last poll conducted after the loss to Pitt resulted in a 50/50 split, but something tells me it won't be so even after this game.