Recently, Notre Dame has come under fire for firing their head football coach. A bunch of retarded morons have been quick to scream racism, based on the fact that he was one of the few Notre Dame coaches to be canned before the expiration of his contract.

Newsflash: we are not living in 1950 anymore and the Notre Dame program is not what it once was. Notre Dame no longer has the luxury of letting mediocre coaches finish out their contract if they want to remain an elite football school. Had the school allowed Willingham to finish out his contract, they would most certainly be up the proverbial creek in a leaky boat without a paddle because of his poor recruiting. It may already be too late, as the most of the good candidates have already been snapped up. Steve Spurrier is coaching South Carolina, Urban Meyer chose sunny Florida over sub-zero South Bend, and Bobby Petrino and Jeff Tedford are staying at Louisville and Cal, respectively.

I hate to break this to all the conspiracy theorists out there, but Notre Dame did what they had to do. Plain and simple, Tyrone Willingham sucked as a coach. His teams did not implode in November on a regular basis because he was black; they collapsed because he was outcoached.

Simply compiling a winning record is not good enough for an elite program. Willingham is not the only coach with a winning record who has been fired recently. Last year, Nebraska fired Frank Solich after he went 9 and 3. Florida fired Ron Zook in the middle of the season after an embarrassing loss to the worst team in the SEC Mississippi State. As Vince Lombardi once said, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”