Overview: O'leary's Notre Dame myth and lies

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: NOTRE DAME'S THE BLARNEY RESUME

This week’s article is dedicated to George O’Leary: The ex-Georgia Tech football coach who in three short days, went from the new mentor at Notre Dame to the unemployment line.

O’Leary spent the better part of two decades as the Head Coach of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. When a head coaching vacancy opened up at Notre Dame after the Irish fired Bob Davie, O’Leary applied for, and received the job. However all of that came tumbling down in a few short days as his athletic and academic achievements came into question.

O’Leary’s resume was filled with inaccuracies(a politically correct term for LIES). He led everybody to believe that he received three letters from the University of New Hamphsire during his playing days there, but after some investigation that was found to be untrue. If that wasn’t bad enough, O’Leary even went as far as to fabricate his academic achievements, stating that he received a Masters Degree in education from the New York City University.

These lies that the ex-Yellow Jacket coach lived for 21 years unraveled in a span of about 30 hours, leaving him jobless and Notre Dame embarrassed and without a coach.

Yes, Notre Dame Athletic Director Kevin White is to blame as well for this incident. If he wasn’t in so much of a hurry to find a head coach and he was doing his job properly, checking everything out before hiring O’Leary, none of this would have happened. Ultimately however, the main culprit in this mess was good old George himself, who felt that fabricating his resume in regards to his athletic and academic achievements was the best way to go.

What I found most amusing was that O’Leary, knowing full well that his resume was just a bunch of lies and untruths, actually went out to look for another job. George! You were safe at Georgia Tech! After 21+ years obviously nobody was going to look into this matter. However, by applying and eventually getting the job at Notre Dame, you should have known somebody was going to look into your past.

I also thought that O’Leary’s statement of "I just don’t know how those inaccuracies appeared on my resume" was absolutely hilarious. Um George. I have an idea how those inaccuracies got there…..YOU PUT THEM THERE!!!

Well, Mr. O’Leary will certainly go down as the only Notre Dame Head Coach never to lose a single game, but he also goes down as being a FEW TOMATO’S SHORT OF A THICK SAUCE.

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