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With the news that Notre Dame is finally done paying off Charlie Weis’ coaching buyout, we discuss how Ty could use that $19 million to become the most interesting, wasteful citizen of Eastern Pennsylvania.

Also, since Charlie Weis is in a buying position, we decide on teams that appear to be good buy-low investments and have a mini draft to each select Power 5 conference teams that won fewer than five games in 2016, and then tally the total number of wins by the end of the 2017 season to see who wins our very important mini draft. Questions about available teams include:

• Will Syracuse with coach Dino Babers take a big year two step forward?

• Will QB Daniel Jones and coach David Cutcliffe lead a bounce-back season for Duke?

• Is Notre Dame or Oregon more likely to find themselves winning eight or nine games, taking a step to return to where they’ve been recently?

• Can an Iowa State team who showed off promising moments in 2016 under new coach Matt Campbell turn those moments into actual results?

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