Lovely Post Script

So PrepVolleyball.com's College Talk messageboard took the steam out of...LOVELYGATE...by posting that former Notre Dame assistant Louella Lovely left her position to be closer to her fiance´.

Not that we really thought anything untoward had occurred. It's just that we like Coach Lovely, and wanted to see her ride off into the St. Louis sunset with a skosh more fanfare.

And if we really thought something evil was afoot we would have gone with a better name than "LOVELYGATE"; "LOUGATE" is much snappier.

Notre Dame skipped something, somewhere

Former Notre Dame volleyball player Lauren Brewster was named assistant coach at her alma mater on Thursday.

Whoa, wait. Since when has there been an opening at Notre Dame?

"She replaces Louella Lovely who recently resigned to relocate to the St. Louis, Mo., area following four seasons as an assistant coach at Notre Dame."

Oh. I see. No big deal. Brewster's just replacing Louella Lovely who res--wait WHAT?! "Resigned?" That's it? That's all we get? This is like announcing that Kerri Walsh's new beach partner is going to be Lane Carico, and oh by the way Misty May has left the pro beach tour to live in a commune in Walla Walla, Wash.

That's not closure! What in the world happened? One minute Lovely's cruising along as assistant Irish...person, the next she's just gone? Without any kind of press release? And why St. Louis?

Something smells, and it's not me. Is that you? It's not me. It's...LOVELYGATE.