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We all know Lou Holtz was the last homerun hire, but why? It's easy to understand why the choices were slim and none -- bad pun -- when Weis got the nod. After 2 coaches and 8 years of mediocrity, the ND job had lost a lot of its luster, but how did it get to be that way? It's a pattern of settling.

I saw this article on O'Leary from back in the day, and it still stings. How did we go from Lou Holtz and NC talk every year to an internal promotion of Bob Davie, hiring of a mediocre...