The newest iteration of professional spring football will fall short of satiating college football fans’ offseason hunger for the same reasons as its predecessors: It lacks the talent of the NFL and the absurdity of college football. The USFL may well serve as adequate background noise, but that has never been the role of college football.

College football may have more in common with professional wrestling than it does the USFL. As much as the action the field, the hijinx, the oddities, the rabid fan bases are what draw our attention, if not more so.

At Notre Dame just last week, those off-field dynamics reached a new mark of comedy when Ed Orgeron visited an Irish spring practice.

Yes, that Ed Orgeron, who served as USC’s head coach when Notre Dame beat the Trojans, 14-10, in 2013. A coach who spent 11 years at USC across two different stints was brought into an Irish practice with open arms.

Go ahead, try to understand the world we live in.

Orgeron visiting various programs this year is not abnormal. Many coaches do that in the year following a firing. They can collect their buyout money while they network and stay in touch with the game, so when they do decide to take over another program, they still have fresh connections in the coaching community.

In Orgeron’s case, bringing his sons with him helps their networking, as well, with one son an offensive analyst at Louisiana-Lafayette and another an offensive intern at Miami.

“I wanted to show them what Notre Dame was and be around,” Orgeron said last week. “It was the first time I got to come in and enjoy being around campus. Going into that Stadium, going to battle and having great memories — yesterday, when we drove up to the Stadium to see the locker room, we went right, I’m used to going to the left.”