It’s been well over five hours since our latest update on the Charlie Weis situation. Simply put, that’s not acceptable and we’ll rectify that situation right here, right now.
According to Scout.com‘s Adam Caplan, and citing league sources, assistants on Weis’ Notre Dame coaching staff have begun putting out feelers to NFL teams “to see if there are any potential job openings coming up.”Sources also indicated that some members of the coaching staff believe they will be fired by Monday.”
Sources also indicated, Caplan reported, that some members of the coaching staff believe they will be fired by Monday.
It’s a widely-held belief that Weis will be fired at some point this week, and perhaps as early as Monday.
Gee….this catches everyone by surprise!!!
HEY DID YOUR HEAR TIGER WAS IN AN ACCIDENT
robertg is unable post today, but has told me that this is untrue, and that Weis may actually be adding assistants in the next week. He has once again asked to me to reiterate the fact that the illegal activity of PFT and CFT must cease and that they need to move to Brazil where they will still not be safe.
As most people or enterprises threatening legal action typically don’t post on the offending website, robertg feels that this departure will serve him well in court, although he is not yet willing to reveal his strategy.
Like other football nuts I am following this with interest. I like what one ESPN analyst said and I think I quote him correctly. ” Since 1993 Notre Dame has been a mid-range team” That means they get their 7 or 9 wins but never any 10-12 win seasons. Pretty realistic observation I felt.
If they are happy with this then why change coaches? But I doubt the AD and Pres are happy with this sitution.
uncommon, you can make the argument that the loss to Boston College back in 1993 was the beginning of the downfall of Notre Dame.
Frank booth –
I love your post! Too funny!
Seriously, though, I do wish the assistants the best. They are always the ones who get screwed when a coach leaves or gets fired.
as a 1975 ND grad and someone who has been to virtually every home game since 1957, repeat 1957, I can tell you that when Lou Holtz coached, and things were not going well for the boys, he was animated and the players on the sidelines were on one knee and following the game closely. The difference between Holtz, and the other coaches I have observed is this: MOTIVATION wins close games and a lack of MOTIVATION loses close games, thus Holtz has won national championships while Weis can motivate a paper clip, let alone 50 young kids that are trying to figure out why they go 6-6 on the year instead of going to a BCS bolw. Weis has failed, get him out of there and hire someone who will put the great talent on the team to better use and bring back the mojo that every school in America still wishes it had ! yes even a mediocre ND team draws more fans than any other school BECAUSE of the TRIDITION, so ND hire a coach worhty of your fine history. For those who want to know what tradition is, visit the Joyce Athletic Center and go to the 2nd floor and see the trophies and memoribilia that for over a century has been a part of Notre Dame.
Nuf said
When I wrote the piece above I did not know
Weis was soon to be officially fired. Within minutes when I heard the announcement I could only think how my school would be starting up again in their quest for respect. I remember the Florida State, Miami, Texas and Alabama games when ND not only competed but won key games in their championship years. It has not been all that long ago that ND was truly hated across the nation because they came to play and most of the time won games when they were not supposed to. I attended the Alabama game at the Sugar Bowl in 1973 when everyone said ND was too slow to keep up with Bama, and guess what, Tom Clements and Ara Parseghian’s legions won a close game. Bama ran the wishbone very very well but Ara had created the “mirror defense” a few years earlier in defeating No. 1 Texas and used it to keep the game close. For many years now, there has not been key games, close games that mean anything, only games against inferior teams that have no business being in the games, let alone beating ND at HOME on Senior Day for petes sake! When you recruit students AND athletes to go to South Bend, they go to class and graduate. I remember in a class on the first day, seeing several members of the ND 1973 starting offensive line in the first row and they came to most of the classes! What a sight. At some or most of the major schools today, you would find it impossible to seperate the regular students, from the athletes, because most of these athletes are NEVER in class. I am proud to be a graduate of ND and when the Viet Nam era was upon us and Father Hesburg came out to announce that if any student damaged the school property and acted in a criminal manner they would be expelled, IT WORKED, unlike the university of Michigan that I also attended where the Weather Underground and Mr. William Ayers ravaged the campus with drugs, violence, etc. Notre Dame stands for class, character and the mutual respect of its local South Bend community and with a little luck in the new hire, and the continued rules for student athletes, ND will eventually come back to respectability. For the Chicago media in the Tribune, Mr. Morrissey, who takes jabs at the Irish, the duo of Kirk Herbstreti and Brent Musburger who could not contain themselves during the telecast of the defeat in a close game to Stanford, shame on both of you and your network for allowing you to be so biased against ND. Brent, your favorite team the Chicago Bears are more of a laughing stock than the Irish, so shut up! For all my Irish friends around the country, we will rise again and before long, the hate mongers will be back in force, which will signal our return to the glory that was started by Knute Rockne, the inventor of the forward pass and continued on by Leahy’s Lads during the 1940′s when they went undefeated and produced one of the greatest stretches of football in the history of the game! ND does not have to take it any longer. At USC their Heisman Trophy winner it appears took six figure money before turning pro, Mr. Reggie Bush, no denial from his family, so it is true, I believe! Florida, who will probably win the national title again, has more felons on its team than carter has pills, so Urban Meyer, go ahead, win another title with your thugs, and your phony QB who thinks that by writing scripture passages under his eyes during games can show he is a true Christian. I have news for Urban, you did no take over the Florida program to train ministers like Tebow, you took over the program, where any village idiot could win. In conclusion, if you are a parent with a student athlete, send him to ND where he or she will get a great education AND perform for a school where character is first, and winning follows, not the other way around, like in the world of the Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreits of the world.