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Charlie Weis (ex-Kansas HC, ex-Fla OC, Notre Dame legend, UnDecided Schematic Advantage)

Reuland leaving truly might not be big news - he was at best 3rd on the depth chart. Perhaps he simply wanted more playing time elsewhere? Of course, we don't know Reuland's real motivation - and it is possible that lv's snowball analogy is closer to the truth.
 
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lvbuckeye;939314; said:
Rumors are swirling that ND TE Konrad Reuland packed his bags today and followed Frazer and Jones out the door in South Bend...

the snowball is building momentum.
A 4th stringer isn't exactly a heavy snowfall more like an everyday occurance in college ball. :wink2:
 
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lvbuckeye;939314; said:
Rumors are swirling that ND TE Konrad Reuland packed his bags today and followed Frazer and Jones out the door in South Bend...

the snowball is building momentum.
All from Charlie's highly-touted 2006 class. All were high profile recruits.
 
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Why do Domers hang on to Weis like they do? Consider the analogy in banking, when you are about to default on a $10,000 loan, you have a serious problem. When you are about to default on a $10,000,000 loan, your banker has a serious problem.

Domers invested a lot of psychic energy in the image of Weis. He was going to provide them with a schematic advantage. His offensive genius was so evident, just as soon as they got his recruits on defense, all would be set for a NC run. Two BCS bowls in a row--who cares if the criteria for admittance was rigged?--were certainly signs of the times to come. Clausen, fueling man love and homoerotic fantasies across the Domer fanbase, was on the way. And now, this year, they had his first two years of recruits on the field and very little left of Ty's debacle.

Then, they found themselves dead last in offense in the FCS subdivision. Everything opponents had been saying about Fat Bastard and his destructive self-centered, ego-centric personality began to play out.

Admitting that Fat Bastard is the problem, not its solution, will require not only a hefty financial price given that stupid contract extension, but also a hefty psychic price.

:stupid:

So, what do you do? You find all kinds of reasons to delay the inevitable recognition of the problem and hope like hell that tomorrow is better than today.

If Weis goes 0-8 or 1-7, which seems very possible, he will get a lot of flak even from the most loyal Domer fans. Nevertheless, unless he wants to abandon ship for an assistant's position in the NFL, it is unlikely that he be under any pressure to leave.

In my mind, the most interesting thing will be to see how his next recruiting class ranks (or tanks). If the kids start choosing elsewhere, Chuckie Cheese better start thinking about the birthday party market.
 
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In my mind, the most interesting thing will be to see how his next recruiting class ranks (or tanks). If the kids start choosing elsewhere, Chuckie Cheese better start thinking about the birthday party market.
Failures often cripple the following class more than the current one, which is ranked near the top. Of course, defections and theft (Meyer) are always a strong possibility.
 
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jwinslow;939335; said:
Failures often cripple the following class more than the current one, which is ranked near the top. Of course, defections and theft (Meyer) are always a strong possibility.

Yep. That is the class to which I referred. I'll bet a bunch of kids are thinking about defecting right now.
 
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Best Buckeye;939333; said:
OK Poll time. Who would you rather have as the Coach at ND.
1. Charlie.
2. someone good.?

Hindenburg, short term...until they start adjusting their schedule to match the quality that they had to play the past 2 seasons. He won something like 19 games over what, one team that won a bowl game? Maybe 2 or 3 that even went over 2 seasons? If he stays long term, we'll start hearing how their high moral and academic standards preclude them from playing the rigorous schedule they used to, and you'll start seeing I-AA teams (and NOT Appy State or Wofford, but more along the lines of Western Carolina or Rhode Island), all the service academies, and teams from the Sun Belt, mixed in with the USC game and maybe one or two other tough ones. The we'll get to see ND win 9 or 10 every year, and he'll be insufferable and overrated again more than ever, and for the forseeable future. If they get someone good, maybe at least they'll have to earn it by playing a tough schedule.
 
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lvbuckeye;939324; said:
my point was that Reuland is the third member of ND's top ten '06 class to leave...
if the issue is a lack of depth due to TW, what does it mean when "Charlie's guys" are transferring out?
Which latter part is exactly why I couched my answer.
Option 1 - Reuland isn't getting playing time at ND, yet was very highly rated. Either he wasn't all that and a bag of chips thus Weis and company blew their talent evaluations - OR
Option 2 - There is superior talent to Reuland on the depth chart - in which case that should be perfectly evident from play on the field, but, it is not.

Doesn't like a win-win assessment to me.
 
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sandgk;939348; said:
Which latter part is exactly why I couched my answer.
Option 1 - Reuland isn't getting playing time at ND, yet was very highly rated. Either he wasn't all that and a bag of chips thus Weis and company blew their talent evaluations - OR
Option 2 - There is superior talent to Reuland on the depth chart - in which case that should be perfectly evident from play on the field, but, it is not.

Doesn't like a win-win assessment to me.

Or there is a third option.....however unlikely

What I am saying is perhaps Fat Boy is truly losing his team.

NoD doesn't normally have in-season transfers like they are having now. It could be on the kids (i.e. they don't know and never guessed they would lose like this) or it could be on the coaching staff....
 
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Best Buckeye;939333; said:
OK Poll time. Who would you rather have as the Coach at ND.
1. Charlie.
2. someone good.?


3. A Succession of Failures: each giving the domers irrational hope only for them to viciously turn on the latest savior and ride him out town on a rail. All the while, giving me immense joy and pleasure as I take in the spectacle of it all.

Oh wait a minute, that's exactly what's been happening since Parseghian left.
 
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ENOUGH, ENOUGH, ENOUGH! HE IS A GENIUS!

0-4 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE 119 YEAR HISTORY OF NOTRE DAME.
RANKED 119 IN TOTAL OFFENSE THIS WEEK IN THE NCAA!

COINCIDENCE?

I THINK NOT! GENIUS CREMEPUFFS! GENIUS! ANYBODY CAN WIN LIKE TRESSEL BUT TRY PLAYING YOUR AGE IN GOLF OR RANKING YOUR OFFENSE TO CELEBRATE YOUR STORIED TRADITION? NOT SO EASY!

CHARLIE WEIS, OFFENSIVE GENIUS, AND ALL-AROUND NICE GUY!

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