The first few days

Whenever there is a new football coach, it's pretty easy to get caught up in the excitement and promising possibilities given the clean slate of a new coaching staff and feel-good quotes from the press conference. However, in the particular case of Notre Dame football and our recent history of hires, it should be just as easy, and perhaps even a bit wise, to stay jaded and treat everything from now until kickoff in the fall as mostly irrelevant.Personally I fall somewhere in between. I look forward to what Kelly will bring to the program and like what I see so far, yet want to avoid some of the excessive optimism I indulged in when Charlie took over for Ty. Part of that is perhaps a bit of a hangover due to the fact I thought ND was close to landing Bob Stoops (just being honest here), but mostly it's because of the names Davie, O'Leary, Willingham, and Weis. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me four times in a row, don't expect me to buy your book after your first ye...