Unfortunately. ND does do a great job of utilizing their TE's though. They will be loaded there with Reuland and Ragone.
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Unfortunately. ND does do a great job of utilizing their TE's though. They will be loaded there with Reuland and Ragone.
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The man has only coached one season. Didn't Tressel also lose in his first bowl game? What happened the next year?
What he's done with our program in one year has been nothing short of impressive. Better yet, it's a progressive movement. We're only going to get better. Next year will be our last shot at a national title for another 2-3 seasons based on how the roster will look.
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Haaaang on Sloopy, Sloopy Hang on!! O.. H.. I.. O.
Didn't Willingham win more games his first year? What makes Weis such a god?
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Well, I wasn't talking about Ty Willingham, but in short, it's every program's prerogative to fire a coach who is leading it in the wrong direction. A decade of mediocrity from Ty-Davieham to the latter years of Holtz (love the man, but his final years were not the best to remember) took its toll and we wanted change.
More importantly, if you were to watch Willingham's team in 2002, you would not be impressed---even if you only saw the first 8 wins. It was a bubble, things looked good while they lasted, but everyone knew it had to pop eventually. And it did and with it came year after year of humiliation and continuous NSD disappointment.
Weis is a much, much better game-day coach. I'm not going to say he's the best coach in the country until he wins a national championship, but any neutral minded person will recognize the disparity between the two coaches' abilities on Saturday. But maybe the greater one is where recruiting is concerned. Ty was lazy. It killed us. One of the reasons why ND fans are so loyal to Weis is because of what he is achieving in the recruiting game, which gives us a sense that we're headed in the right direction.
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Willingham was just as impressive in his first season, going 10-3 including winning his first eight. He then tanked the next season, and in fact had gone 4-9 from that first loss (to BC at home in 2002) until beating Navy in the ninth game of 2003. Now Weis comes waddling into South Bend and swoons the gullible media into believing he's the second coming of Knute Rockne. No way does Notre Dame have the talent pool to run the table this season...
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