Two notable Notre Dame football players were caught being college kids over the weekend: freshman Mike Golic (yes, the son of ESPN radio’s Mike Golic) and sophomore Will Yeatman were busted for underage drinking at a South Bend party. This is Yeatman’s second such infraction; if a basketball player is going to get booted for a semester for weed, Yeatman probably won’t last at the school beyond this week.

Golic’s arrest prompted a brief response from his father, Mike, a former Irish lineman (his uncle played there, too; his brother has verbally committed), this morning on ESPN radio. We don’t have the exact wording, but he essentially played the ‘we’ll talk about it when we know more about the situation’ card. (ESPN, somewhat surprisingly, has an AP link on the college football page.)

Plenty of schadenfreude-filled emails about this arrest in the inbox this morning, but most of them centered around the elder Golic, and a few about Notre Dame as a football program, which has oddly encountered more than a few off-the-field issues under the Weis regime (Clausen’s have been documented; let’s not forget about the clown who solicited a hooker). Apparently, Mike Golic Jr. has been held up as a paragon of virtue on the show (we can’t confirm that, as we rarely pay attention to it), hence the glee over the comeuppance.

Is this not really a big deal – underage drinking isn’t going to stop anytime soon – or is somebody going to write the column that Weis is recruiting the wrong kind of kid to Notre Dame? We lean toward the former, but we’ll listen to arguments in favor of the latter.