After a very forgettable football season, it looks like Charlie Weis is trying to put the Fighting back in Irish - as least in his vocal approach.

The DETROIT NEWS hears tell that the Notre Dame coach went off on the rivals from Ann Arbor before the Blue-Gold spring game last month.

Back on April 19, Weis was speaking to the crowd at the pre-game brunch (where else?), when he talked about what he expects at the start of the 2008 season. And his chatter soon drifted to the matter of Michigan:

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Bob Huggins needs to be careful with his Cutty Sark consumption, keep his Michelob to a minimum, maintain his Lowenbrau at low levels - basically, he better watch what he drinks.

The AP serves up some sobering details on the new contract the West Virginia basketball coach signed last Friday. The new deal will keep Huggins in Morgantown for at least the next 10 years - provided he doesn’t hit the hooch or heroin too hard: Read more…

Rich Rodriguez, who we assume is renting and not buying in Ann Arbor, has slowly been learning why the legal system calls the research phase of a trial the “discovery process”: we’re all discovering how refreshing he would be as a women’s cleansing product.

Now the discovery process has unearthed that Rodriguez sent a go-between to University of Michigan officials to tell them how much he always liked them but couldn’t say so because he was with a girl at the time but now he thinks the two of them may not be compatible anymore because she wants more kids and he just needs time to work things out, y’know?

Now we’re getting that not-so-fresh feeling.

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The FAIRMONT TIMES WEST VIRGINIAN ran a op-ed column today that lays much of the responsibility for the misdeeds of former Mountaineers Adam “Pacman” Jones and Chris Henry at the feet of their former (and now Michigan) head coach, Rich Rodriguez.

“But it must be said the university — especially the football program run at the time by Rich Rodriguez — failed to do anything to straighten out this gifted but troubled young man.

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A lawyer for Rich Rodriguez says his client’s legal battle with West Virginia University is similar to a slave trying to buy his freedom.

As Michigan’s new football coach fights the school over a $4 million buyout, the CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL picks up a quote from Marv Robon, one of Coach Rod’s attorneys, who equates the Mountaineers’ monetary demand with the high price of fleeing from shackles & bonds in the 19th century:

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Good luck to JT tonight - but we do have a soft spot for Priscilla Presley.

(SbB Girl Cecilia’s brush with a former NBA great - Vinny, Keystone Light?)

• Taking a fond look back at last weekend’s Panama City excursion.

• Phil Jackson puts the moves on Michele Tafoya.

• The owners of the Indiana Pacers supposedly want to give Larry the Bird.

• Reggie Jackson is going, going, gone from the Yanks’ spring training dugout.

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Rich Rodriguez has done his level best to tamp down exuberance for his new Michigan wards. He told ESPN’s Ivan Maisel that he’s “anticipating the worst” in year one as the team learns his brilliant system. Also, the grinding conditioning program needs time to soak in. And so on. It’s college football’s version of the “he lost 20 pounds and looks great on the mound this spring” piece.

(This will distract Michigan students for only so long)

Of course, Rodriguez doesn’t have too much time; 9-4 may have been a fine farewell for Lloyd Carr, but it’s unacceptable to Big House denizens. Perhaps he can buy time while he attempts to build a team modeled in his image, full of fast-twitch muscles and constant movement. If only there was some way to convince fans to be patient… hmm…

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Little Joshua Irizarry, fresh off perhaps renting “Little Big League,” applied to be the head football coach of West Virginia, and last month got an adorable rejection letter back from the college.

THE (MERIDEN, CT) RECORD-JOURNAL reports that after the 12-year-old boy from Southington, Connecticut wrote to WVU applying to be the coach, WVU president Michael Garrison wrote back, saying “the position has been filled by an ‘equally qualified candidate.’ “ Not sure what incoming head coach Bill Stewart feels about that comparison. Read more…