It’s no shock, but it is sad…

University of Toledo football coach Tom Amstutz plans to step down from his position on Monday, The Blade has learned.

Amstutz and UT athletic director Mike O’Brien are scheduled to announce at a morning news conference that Amstutz will be reassigned to a different job within the university, not necessarily the athletic department, at the conclusion of the season.

Amstutz took over when I was in my second year at UT, and installing the spread offense was one of the better things he’s ever done. Now, the team looks friggin’ awful, despite some real talent on the team. And when there are no answers, the sights fall on the guy at the top.

It’s too bad, because I’ll miss calling him Principal McAmstutz.

The Toledo Rockets have had a tough year. After losing that double overtime thriller to Fresno St., the wheels have fallen off, save a victory over a team who not only had the wheels fall off, but the bumper, muffler, and radiator as well.

This is supposed to be the time when the team leaders need to step up. The captains rally the troops. The seniors grab the freshman by the scruff of their necks and drag them back on the practice field.

Or not.

Senior defensive tackle Sean Williamson was suspended for the remainder of the season for an unspecified violation of team rules, UT announced Friday. UT coach Tom Amstutz declined to comment through a team spokesman.

Senior leadership is overrated anyways. Why, just look at that other team that had the wheels, muffler, bumper, and radiator fall off!

Toledo 13, Michigan 10.

Your eyes deceive you not. It was the ugliest win in the long, sad history of ugly wins. But you take them where you can get them. It’s just nice to see an offense as anemic as the Rockets’ has been. Still, that 100-yard pick-6 by Tyrell Herbert is somethin’ special.

Bad news: Toledo Lost.

Worse news: To Florida International.

Are you kidding me?: Ned scored a touchdown.

(Thanks to Suss for reminding me of brave, young Ned.)

Witness Brandon Marrow’s insidious assault on the Pi Kappa Phi Cannon:

(I talked to Paul Helgren, he said they’re probably going to move the cannon to the North side of the stadium, possibly on the balcony of the Larimer Center.)