
There's nothing like your tight ends coach
guaranteeing a successful season:
"I guarantee you (Irish fans) that you won't be disappointed this season. Mark it down, we're on a mission," Bernie Parmalee, tight ends coach, told members of the Notre Dame Club of Northwest Indiana in St. Patrick's church hall.
And by god, the Notre Dame tight ends are going to be wholly responsible for it! So many questions:
- Notre Dame seriously has a coach who just does tight ends?
- Notre Dame seriously has a coach who guarantees Notre Dame fans, who have been disappointed every year since 1993, that they will not be disappointed this year?
- ...and this guy is the uber-responsible-for-all-accomplishments tight ends coach?
- Notre Dame seriously has a coach who claims the team is on a mission and doesn't reflexively insert "... from God" afterwards?
- Bernie Parmalee?
Answers: uh... yup... weird, uh... evidently, seriously, uh... disapointingly, and yeah, weird.