This week's Asshat is Indianapolis Star sports columnist Bob Kravitz. As an Indianapolis-area native, I am already quite accustomed with Kravitz' lame columns. He's nearly always wrong in predictions he makes, he often makes completely illogical arguments, and in regards to Indy sports personalities and teams his positions are as fickle as the romantic interests of a 13-year old girl.

And with his newest column piece-of-trash, entitled "Notre Dame really owes Willingham an apology," Kravitz earns the infamous Asshat label.

Kravitz' "argument" is this: since the Weis-led Irish aren't doing well this year, Notre Dame fans owe Tryone Willingham an apology for firing him after three years (oh yeah, and ND was racist for firing him in the first place). Makes complete sense, right?

Unsurprisingly, Kravitz doesn't actually use the word racist in regards to Notre Dame, but he's none too subtle in making the accusation either:
The Domers fell in love with the idea of Weis, a former Notre Dame guy who sounds like them and looks like them, coming down from the NFL summit to scheme Notre Dame's way back to glory.
Excuse me Mr. Kravitz, but what the fuck do you know? Excuse the curse, but it's more than well deserved in this case. I am sick and tired of columnists reading the collective minds of Notre Dame fans and administrators and magically divining racism through their crystal balls of punditry. Racism is a serious problem and a serious charge, and every time somebody levels the charge without even a shred of evidence that person belittles the charge and the problem.

To further support his contention that ND fans owe Ty an apology, he says that Willingham is a pretty good coach who "is starting to restore the University of Washington to its old luster..." Really? Ty nearly had a meltdown on his hands last season at Washington and this season he's 2-1, with one of the wins coming against powerhouse Syracuse. He might be leading them to a good season this year, but it's certainly too early to tell.

But his performance at Washington is hardly even relevant. The facts are, as Sean pointed out, that Weis would have to lose every remaining game this season to match Ty's 3-year winning percentage and that Weis' recruiting has blown Ty's recruiting away.

If Weis keeps losing, his time will come, but his performance should have no bearing on the argument as to whether or not ND treated Willingham properly when they fired him.

So congrats to this week's Asshat: Bob Kravitz!





Oh, and if you don't appreciate being called a racist by a man who doesn't even know you, you can e-mail Kravitz at bob.kravitz@indystar.com

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