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

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The Worst Football Coach in the Universe

Introducing Notre Dame's Charlie Weis.

By Jonathan Chait
Posted Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007, at 2:51 PM ET

"Charlie Weis has returned Notre Dame to relevancy. Just two years ago, as Notre Dame spiraled toward mediocrity under Ty Willingham, a shot at a national title seemed improbable. But the schemes and the discipline Weis has installed have revived past glories. The only question on the Irish offense comes on the line. But considering the way Weis turned castoff linemen into solid starters with the New England Patriots, that should not be a huge concern."?New York Times, Aug. 27, 2006

In the entire history of American sports hype, has there ever been any fraud more grossly fraudulent than Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis?
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Notre Dame's Charlie Weis, the worst football coach in the universe. - By Jonathan Chait - Slate Magazine
 
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sandgk;972815; said:
So, what about the Lemming's views ..
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God Lemming is a barely functional retard. The 2004 Irish team was bad but not even in the same league as this "team". Check your upper lip there Tom, I think you hve some of Charlie's "love sauce" still on there.

BuckeyePride;972914; said:
I think we should just lock all threads related to ND n CW for a while. Though CW is making it hard with his actions.
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Uh, why?
 
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sandgk;972815; said:
So, what about the Lemming's views ..
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God Lemming is a barely functional retard. The 2004 Irish team was bad but not even in the same league as this "team". Check your upper lip there Tom, I think you hve some of Charlie's "love sauce" still on there.

BuckeyePride;972914; said:
I think we should just lock all threads related to ND n CW for a while. Though CW is making it hard with his actions.
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Uh, why?
 
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As far as Charlie not playing the Seniors, he never said anything of the sort. I believe that came from the press conference right after the USC game, or the Tuesday after. He said now is the time to develop the younger talent, he realized he made a mistake in previous years by not getting them playing time sooner. On the other hand, he did state that he was in no way benching the seniors.
Q. Talking about using this week to get some of the young guys more game. Is that going to translate on to the field on Saturdays, do you think?
COACH WEIS: Well, that kind of goes back to the question that they're asking about the offensive linemen. I think we go through this week as if you're going to play this week. But you don't play this week. So then you get a chance to pull back after that happens.
Remember, we're covering the country in recruiting this week, too. So we've got a bunch of things going on, because it's going to be a fire drill all over the country this week because we're all over the place. As the players get a little time off, you only get six days during the football season where you can go out recruiting.
But to answer that question and piggy back on the offensive line situation -- I think for guys that haven't played at this point, okay. This is kind of the make or break time where if you're going to play, you might as well play them now.
I mean, you're no longer bowl eligible. Not that that was an abstract for everyone else. But until the finality exists, you have to wait until that point comes. Well, that finality has already come and passed. So now what you're doing is do you think I'm not going to play John Carlson? Do you think I'm not going to play John Sullivan? You think I'm not going to play Trevor Laws? Those guys are all going to play. It's not like all of a sudden you say I'm going to take those guys and put them away. But at the same time you better start worrying about developing your team. Because as everyone knows, we're 1-7, we're not playing very well. So we need to see evidence. I need to see evidence, just the way you want to see evidence that things are going to be headed in the right direction. And that's what these next five weeks -- I'm looking at it as five weeks, I'm not looking at it as one. I'm looking at it as this is the first of the five weeks that kind of set the table.


Q. How do you use this off week? Can you evaluate further and motivate further? How do you use it to get better?
COACH WEIS: Well, that's a good question. I finally came up with a plan by this morning. It's taken me a little time because I'm like everyone else, I have to do some thinking and make sure I've got things in order.
What we're going to do is use half of this week to introduce Navy. Then about halfway through practice I'm going to send in everyone whose eligibility is up. They're all going in. And then the other half of the week, it's going to almost be like you're practicing with the guys that you're going to have here in spring.
Now in that group, anyone that is in that gray area that has another year of eligibility back that may be here or not be here, they'll all be out there at that time. So we're going to kind of, you know, make sure we get an introduction so we don't completely use and waste a week Navy wise, especially with their offense. With it being a different type of offense and being that our offense hasn't moved the ball. We're going to make sure that we utilize this week to get going on Navy. But I think it's just as important to start developing the team as if those guys were gone, too.

Q. At this point in the season with four games to go, does it become a consideration to maybe start playing a lot of the young guys like major league baseball teams with a 40 man roster in September?
COACH WEIS: I think that is a consideration. I think it's a consideration. But I think that there's also there's probably some of those older guys, especially those fifth year guys, who probably played pretty well, and if they played pretty well, do you sit there and say, okay, thanks for your eight games and now you're done? I just don't think it's the right way of treating people. Now, conversely, I think you have to start getting more guys into the mix that are going to be playing, and I think what you're not going to do is go through four games and not have worked on developing guys to get ready for next year. I think that that's a very important point.
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So, it looks like hes concentrating first on getting the guys that will not be back next year, getting them ready first for Navy so they get a chance. 2nd group to get ready are the players that will be returning next year, after that it'll be guys that may or may not be coming back next year.

Here was the quote in regards to laughin' it up this year as they're losing:
Q. You're 1 and 7 now, you haven't lost at home by this much in like 50 years. Does this feel like a bottom to you? Do you ever see Notre Dame being at this point again while you're here?
COACH WEIS: I'm going to answer that very cautiously, okay, because I don't want to be called sarcastic using New Jersey rhetoric. So let me just say people better enjoy it now, have their fun now.
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I think more than anything this was Charlie's ego talking, pretty beat up after this season I'm assuming, which is good. Hes made a lot of mistakes in regards to preparing the offensive line, getting the offense prepared as a whole, and not getting younger guys playing time earlier. There were few young players that saw any game time last year, James Aldridge was one and I think it paid off as he became the starter before his injury, but the lack of O-line movement has held him back. In any event, this has certainly been a rebuilding year and much worse, which he said he would never mention. If he doesn't learn from this season's mistakes and makes a dramatic improvement next year, I could see him having the contract bought out.
 
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BuckeyeMike80;975583; said:
So Fat Boy's best team was comprised of almost entirely Willingham recruits? Shocking... :so:
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Not just Ty's recruits, but the boys that Ty helped mold into better players than they were when they got there. Now, it certainly appeared that Charlie did more with those guys that Ty might have, but Charlie has done little to suggest that he can mold his better talent into players that were as effective as the bunch that Ty molded. As has been noted numerous times in this thread, Charlie has done an exceptionally poor job of playing the younger kids and getting them moved forward.

As stated by Ulookinatme, the learning that Charlie has been doing better pan out and be on display, or he'll have to go.
 
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