The Raiders are not a lost cause and the solution is simple

4, 2009, the Hartford Courant wrote the proposed football series between UConn and Notre Dame is "All but Dead."Notre Dame wanted UConn to play their home games at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass, and the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, NJ. Let me put it another way: Notre Dame didn't want UConn to play any of their home games in the state ofConnecticut.Only Notre Dame could have the audacity to ask a fellow conference member, a conference member whose football team beat Notre Dame just a couple of weeks ago, to play all their "home games" at neutral sites.Contrary to popular belief, Notre Dame football was in aconference 20 years ago. They were one of 45 schools that made up the "independent conference." Times have changed;they haven't.Conference members work together. They've acted like a conference destroyer and this recent display of unconference like conduct, should be more than enough for the Big East to explore taking the appropriate steps leading to their eviction.The Big East should stop clowning around; it's time Temple University was kicked out of the conference. They didn't live up to conference standards and the Big East acted. Not cooperating with the other members, the way Notre Dame has, should be offensive enough for action to be taken.The Big East needs to get a pair and put Notre Dame on trial! This should be one of the first orders of business for 2010.Earlier today, Notre Dame athletic director, Jack Swarbrick, made it very clear that Notre Dame had no intention to join the Big Ten Conference. The Big Ten may not know it know now, but Notre Dame probably did them a favor.. The Raiders have been horrible for a while, and fans are getting sick of it. People blame Russell, people blame Al Davis, and I think I saw an Article once that blamed the balloon boys parents for the Raiders woes.

The Raiders are not a lost cause, and the solution is simple.. It sounds like Raider nation is using Russell as a scapegoat for lack of winning games. If you look at his contract and his production, there is an obvious discrepency in production vs money "Earned". Being an Idaho guy and a season ticket holder I wanted Cable to succeed, but its hard to want to keep a coach that can't prepare a team to play every Sunday. You can't beat the Bengals and Eagles at home, then get blown out by the Jets or Redskins at home. Hiring a big time Head Coach who knows how to rally his troops would be a smart decision.. I may be onto something here, and i'm not sure if anyone has thought of this The Raiders need a GM.

I love Al Davis, and his passion for the Raiders, but now its time for him to look in the Mirror and fire himself as GM. He needs to grow some balls and open his eyes, and realize that he is the Reason the team win, can't draft, can't hire a respectable coach, and has to over pay players to come to Oakland.. There is some rich billionaire who wants to build a state of the art facility and wants a team to play there. Lets be honest, players will want to come to the Raiders if they played in L.A. No one is watching the games in Oakland, not at the Stadium, not at home because of lack of attendance. This would be the smartest financial decision the Raiders could make.

It would be a nice fresh start, and a change of scenery would be nice. I know, I know this is probably not the most unpopular one of the bunch, but lets be honest. Yes he may be shutting other players down, but that hasn't exactly won us very many games. As a matter of fact, he's never had a winning season in his whole career.