Ahh it's good to be back on FanNation. I'm willing to bet most people here have no clue who I am, but I was indeed on this site for a while before taking an extended break, but am now making my return for no reason whatsoever other than looking to talk sports with hopefully solid group of individuals.
Anyways, now that I have that out of the way it's on to the true topic of this blog. Charlie Weis is going to remain Notre Dame's head coach?! I'll be honest here, when I first saw that on the bottomline on ESPN my jaw dropped.
The precedent was set with Ty Willingham and Bob Davie. It was made pretty clear that there are certain standards that need to be met with Notre Dame football. I thought I had a pretty good idea of what those standards were...you need to win and be in position to be playing in a BCS Bowl.
Charlie Weis' first year as head coach was good. Then after that ehh not so much in his favor. Charlie Weis was known as a great developer of quarterbacks..just where has this been with Jimmy Clausen? From every time I've seen Notre Dame play this year Clausen has been sporadic at best.
I am by no means a Notre Dame fan, but this is guy is not a good head coach. From 3-9 to 6-6, that's not a very impressive overall improvement. Someone fill me in..when was .500 at Notre Dame good enough? Why was the benchmark of "hey you did good job this year...continue to be our coach" become dramatically lower right after Willingham and Davie?
Was it the supposed buyout of his contract? 15 million is nothing to Notre Dame..even our current economic difficulties. Oh well, at least I get to sit back and watch Notre Dame sink further into college football obscurity.
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Good to see you back badgerfan07.
Personally I thought they had no choice but to bring Weis back because there was nothing else out there. I didn't see a Mike Leach or a Phillip Fulmer going to a place like Notre Dame. Those guys just didnt see to fit their mold (in my opinion). I got a feeling that they are going to be keeping tabs on guys that are pleasing to the alumni next season just in case Charlie doesn't get the pre-requisite amount of wins to keep him long term.
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Hey badger
Yeah, you have to wonder how many lives Weiss has. I am guessing he needs 8 or 9 wins next year in the regular season to get invited back.
It can also hurt them in the hunt for a replacement if they pull the trigger too fast.
I think he has done a miserable job, but he may be on a learning curve himself. They could be excuses, or they could be the truth - he didn't take the right approach to prepare his team this year.
3 of his losses this year came by 1, 3, and 5 points. The other 3 were to teams that finished in the top 1/3 of a major conference. He was not that far from fielding a 9-3 team that could be exptected to finish just outside the top 1/3 of a major this year. He may not be that far from a 10 win season.
Than again, he may not be that far from being shown the door....
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Badger good to see ya back! Come on over to the table, we could use some more big 10 guys over there!
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Welcome back.. I'm new here on Fannation and just read your blog and you are right, Weis is not a good coach and he should be out at ND.
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Thanks everybody. Yeah, I kind of agree that there weren't a ton of quality replacements for Weis. I'm with J Hova on this one, you've got to think that this upcoming year their eyes will be on some different people. The rumor, especially up here in Wisconsin, gained some legs that Barry Alvarez would be a guy that they would be heavily interested in.
I will definitely check it out xxx84
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