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And it ain't pretty. Perhaps sensing an opening to take shots at the Notre Dame coach after the new athletic director had to issue something resembling a vote of confidence this week and Jason Whitlock took to calling him college football's "Pear Bryant", the Tribune fired off several more volleys at the ego of the Irish coach.

The Tribune's college football writer Teddy Greenstein delivers a virtual treasure trove of anecdotes and quotes hammering at Weis' seemingly limitless ego. An appetizer:

When [Jeannette PA football coach Ray] Reitz told Weis that [recruit Terrelle] Pryor might attend a USC quarterbacks camp, he remembers Weis replying: "Why send him there? If he's with me for one day he'll be good, two days he'll be great and three days he'll be incredible."

Later, unprompted, Weis asked the Jeannette coaches if they wanted to take a picture of his Super Bowl ring.

What, no request to kiss the ring as well? Ask Pitt what it thinks about Jimmy Clausen after two years with Weis.

It's not called the No Fun League for nothing! OK so when pulling in esteemed members of the media maybe "expert" isn't the appropriate nomenclature but we'll roll with it because it suits our ideological agenda today. Deal with it.

CollegeFootballNews.com is hosting a discussion panel between various NFL and college football media types. Today's question was "how should college football be more like the NFL, and vice versa?" Almost across-the-board the reactions went something like "DON'T!!! R U CRAZY?!". Only slight exaggeration there. Salient excerpt:

Stewart Mandel: College football should never, ever be more like the NFL. The NFL is boring, sterile, artificial, unimaginative and basically the antithesis of everything that makes college football special.

So there ya go. Not much was actually said about the whole BCS/Playoffs thing in here, which is surprising and leaves us with an incomplete discussion. Personally I'm rabidly against a playoff for college football, but here's guessing that even the most partisan pro-college guys amongst the panel had mixed feelings about the current situation. ESPN's Bruce Feldman did admit to liking the NFL's playoff format.

If they had more time methinks the panel would have quibbled with this comment from the Chicago Tribune's Teddy Greenstein:

The NFL's only superiority is its dearth of four-hour games.

Maybe us college football fans are just crazy, but it seems like a good majority of us could care less how long games take so long as there's quality football going on (which is in many ways the NFL's undoing with some of us college football nuts).