daddyphatsacs;637095; said:Hell man, on Weis' salary he can afford Boston Market.......screw KFC.
awww man don't make fun of Colonel....
woohoo I successfully posted a pic on my first try
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awww man don't make fun of Colonel....
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/football/ncaa/10/18/weis.nfl.feelers.ap/index.html
ND fans always wants to know what it is that fans of other teams dislike about Weis. They mistakenly think other fans are jealous of them for having such a fine coach. This message illustrates the nature of Weis - a man who believes the world revolves around him, perfectly.
First, whether someone did approach him with an active attempt to feel him out (horrific mental image, horrific mental image) or he called some NFL coaches or owners for a chat during which something came up (horrific mental image, horrific mental image), he has no right to talk about the conversation. And if he is saying this in public, one can only wonder the stories he is telling to others behind the scenes.
What it tells me is that he is feeling very insecure in his job because his performance is not meeting the expectations that his ego and mouth established.
Second, why insult our intelligence with the crap about not having the money top buy yourself out of your contract. Buy-out clauses don't stop anyone. If someone truly wants you, they'll pay the relatively small price to buy you out of your contract.
His food bill is no doubt high, but affordability is not an issue. If he is trying to alert the NFL to potential negotiating issues, he shouldn't worry, any offers forthcoming right now wouldn't match his ego anyway.
Finally, so far, Weis is not performing so what potentially premier NFL team would really want him as a head coach anyway?
NFL movers and shakers are not impressed by comeback victories against an MSU team that can't tie its shoes. They are impressed by ass-kickings delivered by Jim Tressel (or worse yet IVoyd) and by the fact that you needed a rally to beat an MSU team that was never in the game against Ohio State. They can also see that his defensive coaching leaves a LOT to be desired.
So, what we have here is a potentially fictitious recounting of NFL movers and shakes who are watching their calendars for an ND bye-week so they can get the time to reach Weis by telephone and tempt him to come back to the NFL. More likely is that he is signalling his insecurity and a desire to go back to the NFL on his part or he does think someone is trying to feel him out for a job and he is trying to signal that they would have to buy him out of his contract before he would go.
Either way, the values that Weis wears on his sleeve are inconsistent with this press release.
Still, it might all be plausible, I mean you must have to ask someone in the know like Herbie on this one, Weis is a genius. Still don't believe me? Ask Weis.
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tibor75
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Gee, you think this is the reason this gastropod has been unable to lose weight? Try walking, lazy ass?
SPECIAL DELIVERY: With the release of his book, "No Excuses," Weis was asked whether he's had any interesting run-ins with students or alumni. Weis, who said he only gets about four hours of sleep a night, said he arrived at his office about 4:30 a.m. one day in June and found some alumni -- including one former football player -- coming back from a night out on the town and trying to hijack a golf cart outside his office.
"I looked at them and I said, 'What the hell are you doing?"' Weis said.
"We're trying to steal the golf cart," they told him.
"I said, 'It's mine,"' Weis said.
Weis didn't turn them in, though. Instead, he drove them over to the dorm where they were staying.
"There are some interesting things that you see walking in early in the morning," he said.
Keep it up, lard boy, and I have a feeling coaching ND for life might be 6 years.
SPECIAL DELIVERY: With the release of his book, "No Excuses," Weis was asked whether he's had any interesting run-ins with students or alumni. Weis, who said he only gets about four hours of sleep a night, said he arrived at his office about 4:30 a.m. one day in June and found some alumni -- including one former football player -- coming back from a night out on the town and trying to hijack a golf cart outside his office.
"I looked at them and I said, 'What the hell are you doing?"' Weis said.
"We're trying to steal the golf cart," they told him.
"I said, 'It's mine,"' Weis said.
Weis didn't turn them in, though. Instead, he drove them over to the dorm where they were staying.
"There are some interesting things that you see walking in early in the morning," he said.
Keep it up, lard boy, and I have a feeling coaching ND for life might be 6 years.
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RhodeIslandBuck
This guy's a real jerk
I think Weis will die of clogged arteries before the contract expires.
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tibor75
Banned
From ESPN page 2:By DJ Gallo
Special to Page 2
Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis took time out of his weekly news conference Tuesday to complain about his team dropping in the polls and BCS standings.
While my initial reaction was to simply laugh off Weis' griping, he raised some points and asked a few questions that I felt deserved serious responses.
"One of the teams [Tennessee] that jumped us had the same game that we had. They're down, they're playing at home and they win by a field goal. Another team [Florida] that jumped us wasn't even playing. They were at home eating cheeseburgers and they end up jumping us. That befuddles me."
Hey, care to know what befuddles me, Charlie? How the head coach of Notre Dame, a program which has consistently been overrated and ranked higher than it deserved to be for more than a decade -- and for most of the past century -- has the audacity to complain about polls. I mean ? wow! That more than befuddles me.
And do you want to know what else befuddles me? How you were able to dupe Notre Dame into giving you a 10-year contract worth nearly $40 million after starting your career 5-2 without a single win against a team that finished the season ranked in the Top 25. That's a bit befuddling. As is the fact that you are regarded as some sort of football god even though the next good team your Fighting Irish beat will be the first. In your tenure you have played three good teams (so much for the perception that Notre Dame plays a brutal schedule, huh?): USC last October, Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl and Michigan five weeks ago. You were blown out in two of those three games. But, yeah, you almost beat USC. Congratulations. Heck of a moral victory there. That's exactly why you were hired. For moral victories.
Let's see ? what else befuddles me? Oh, yeah: How you claim to hold everything about Notre Dame sacred, yet spend every Saturday afternoon on the sideline dropping F-bombs every other word and cussing out officials, all in the shadow of "Touchdown Jesus" and with a priest standing a few yards away. Sure, that's being a bit picky, I suppose, but I'm #^&*ing befuddled by it nonetheless.
Oh, and you wonder why Tennessee jumped ahead of you? Beside the fact that they're better than you, it might have something to do with the fact that they beat Alabama -- a quality team in the best conference in college football and a longtime rival -- while you slipped past an average team from a bad conference. Just a theory. It might also have something to do with the fact that Tennessee has already beaten three teams this season who are currently ranked (you may recall you have just one such win) and that their only loss was by one point to a very good Florida team while your loss was by 26 -- 26! -- at home to Michigan. So really, if you think about it, the only shock is that you were actually ranked ahead of Tennessee before this week.
And the "home eating cheeseburgers" line? Very clever. But you should probably know that not everyone spends their free time gorging themselves on fast food. It's true. (I know, I know -- this revelation has you "befuddled" yet again.)
Let's continue ?
"We go into a game with 27 seconds to go, come from behind, win a thrilling game, and because we win a thrilling game, let's move us down because one team is not playing and the other team had the exact same game, exactly the same. Tell me how that works. Maybe I'm just stupid. Just tell me how that works. You're [a voter], tell me how that works."
Wow. Great reasoning there, Captain Logic. Yes, you were bumped down a few spots in the polls because you won in a "thrilling" fashion. Yep. That's how the voters decide things. "Hmm ? it seems Notre Dame won a thrilling game. Guess I'll have to drop them down in my rankings because I hate things that are thrilling." But, hey, I'll throw you a bone here, Logic Boy -- you'd be the unanimous No. 1 team in the country if there were a poll ranking the teams that play the most thrilling games. Many Notre Dame games are extremely thrilling because your team makes a habit out of playing down to its awful competition (oops ? there's that easy schedule thing cropping up again).
Do you perhaps instruct your team to play poorly against poor competition to score "thrilling" points and keep the ratings up on NBC so Notre Dame can get another big TV contract so they can afford your overinflated contract? That must be the case, because you are the greatest coach ever. Everyone knows that. And there would be no other explanation as to why you lost to Michigan State last year, and almost again this year. And why you barely slipped by an awful Stanford team last November and a mediocre UCLA squad on Saturday.
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Weis congratulates Brady Quinn on a big win over a mediocre opponent.But, sorry, you asked that someone tell you how that works and I ignored your question and went off on a tangent. My apologies. So here's how it works. (I'm not a voter, but I have a notion of how it goes.) Voters watch college football games and then at the end of every weekend rank the teams from best to worst as they see fit. Based on this week's polls, the average voter thinks your team is currently no better than 10th or 11th. Understand how it works? It's really quite simple. And, in all honesty, Notre Dame probably is not even deserving of being that high, but the polls are still adjusting to having your team ranked way too high to start the season -- which is sort of a rankings tradition.
And one more thing, since you asked -- no, you're not stupid. But you know you're not stupid. You just think everyone else is. That's why you are so incredibly condescending when you speak. It's part of your "charm."
But let's continue again. I know you have to put in a game plan for your super-tough game against Navy on Saturday, and I don't want to take up a lot of your time.
"Would I love for Notre Dame to play for the national championship this year? Absolutely. Is there a chance that it happens? Remote. Is there a chance? Yeah, there's a chance because any team with one loss has a chance of playing for it. Now a lot of things have to happen now, OK. A lot of things have to happen. But is there a chance? I'd say there's a chance. It's remote. Would you agree with that? It's remote, but would you say there's a chance?"
Yes, Charlie, I'd say there's a chance. I mean, geez, look at your schedule over the next month: at Navy, home versus North Carolina, at Air Force and home against Army. And maybe if you're lucky, you can even fit Temple in there somewhere on a Wednesday. So you should easily get through your next four games and be 10-1 and right in the thick of the national title hunt, with the voters leaving love letters outside your door again.
But wait ? what's that I see at the end of your Division I-AA-esque stretch of games? Oooh, bummer. A game against USC. And on the road to boot. Too bad. Oh well -- so maybe there's not a chance that you'll play for the national championship this season. Not that you'd want to. Ohio State or Michigan would crush you. And that would be bad for your image.
DJ Gallo is the founder and sole writer of the award-winning sports satire site SportsPickle.com. He is also a regular contributor to ESPN The Magazine and Fantasy Sports Monthly, and has written for The Onion and Cracked. His first book -- "SportsPickle Presents: The View from the Upper Deck" -- will be in stores soon.
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Weis should talk less and win more convincingly
October 25, 2006
Charlie Weis doesn't understand the polls. OK, I'm going to make this as simple as possible:
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'); }Teams jump other teams because more and more voters eventually open their eyes to the reality of the situation. In other words, which team -- in their opinion -- is better than the other. If there is no head-to-head evaluation, then it becomes opinion-based.
That's the way polls work. Deal with it.
Weis doesn't understand how Tennessee and Florida jumped the Irish last week in the coaches poll after the Vols won a similar game as ND (at home, solid opponent, close game) and the Gators didn't even play. OK, I can make this simple, too.
Tennessee's biggest win was a laugher over Cal, a team many believe is the best in the Pac-10. The Vols' key loss was to Florida, at home by one point.
Florida's biggest wins are on the road against Tennessee and at home against LSU. The Gators' key loss was at Auburn.
Now, the Irish. In ND's biggest game of the season, it had a 26-point knot planted on its head by Michigan in South Bend. And Notre Dame's biggest win? Two last-second miracles against Michigan State and UCLA -- games the Irish should have lost to teams with a combined record of 8-7.
In fact, if I were Weis, I'd lay off the complaining -- especially considering the Irish schedule looks weaker with each passing, uh, week.
Just win games, coach. And with any luck, the Irish will be matched against either Tennessee or Florida in the Sugar Bowl.
Then he'll really have something to worry about.
Weis should talk less and win more convincingly
October 25, 2006
Charlie Weis doesn't understand the polls. OK, I'm going to make this as simple as possible:
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'); }Teams jump other teams because more and more voters eventually open their eyes to the reality of the situation. In other words, which team -- in their opinion -- is better than the other. If there is no head-to-head evaluation, then it becomes opinion-based.
That's the way polls work. Deal with it.
Weis doesn't understand how Tennessee and Florida jumped the Irish last week in the coaches poll after the Vols won a similar game as ND (at home, solid opponent, close game) and the Gators didn't even play. OK, I can make this simple, too.
Tennessee's biggest win was a laugher over Cal, a team many believe is the best in the Pac-10. The Vols' key loss was to Florida, at home by one point.
Florida's biggest wins are on the road against Tennessee and at home against LSU. The Gators' key loss was at Auburn.
Now, the Irish. In ND's biggest game of the season, it had a 26-point knot planted on its head by Michigan in South Bend. And Notre Dame's biggest win? Two last-second miracles against Michigan State and UCLA -- games the Irish should have lost to teams with a combined record of 8-7.
In fact, if I were Weis, I'd lay off the complaining -- especially considering the Irish schedule looks weaker with each passing, uh, week.
Just win games, coach. And with any luck, the Irish will be matched against either Tennessee or Florida in the Sugar Bowl.
Then he'll really have something to worry about.
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daddyphatsacs
Let the cards fall...
I'd love to play Notre Dame again, so we can kick Weis' ass twice in a one year span.
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Don't know this guy at Fox, but this was funny...
http://video.msn.com/v/us/foxsports.../msn.foxsports.com/cfb&fg=/ncaa/football/home
http://video.msn.com/v/us/foxsports.../msn.foxsports.com/cfb&fg=/ncaa/football/home
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Still suffering uner the delusion it will prove something? Even if we beat them 63-0 there is certain to be at least one questionable call by an official somewhere that could have shifted the momentum.
Besides, these still aren't Charlie's players. That's the problem. Wait til next year when he has to coach his first college game starting a QB who has less than two full seasons experience. (And for the record, Jim Tressel has yet to start a season at OSU with a QB as experienced as Quinn was when Charile walked in the door.)
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buckeyeboy
Still fortitudinous
I only hope that Weis read the article by DJ Gallo posted above. Outstanding.
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BuckTwenty
Parties with Pete Johnson's Beard
SportsIllustrated.com - Stewert Mandel lays out why ND is getting passed over in the rankings
Definetly worth the read, but in a nutshell, it says that voters are just making up for making the mistakes of ranking them so high to start the season. Even makes a valid argument for Boston College (ranked 7 spots behind ND) to be ranked ahead of the Domers-- in essence, he says that they're STILL overranked... and he's right. They don't look like a top 10 team at this point. Doesn't help that the best team they've beaten is barely in the top 25 at this point (Ga Tech) after getting their butts handed to them against now #10 Clemson.
Actually, I'd like to see that game next week. Notre Dame and Clemson. Winner gets a BCS berth. Good luck Domers. You'd need it.
Definetly worth the read, but in a nutshell, it says that voters are just making up for making the mistakes of ranking them so high to start the season. Even makes a valid argument for Boston College (ranked 7 spots behind ND) to be ranked ahead of the Domers-- in essence, he says that they're STILL overranked... and he's right. They don't look like a top 10 team at this point. Doesn't help that the best team they've beaten is barely in the top 25 at this point (Ga Tech) after getting their butts handed to them against now #10 Clemson.
Actually, I'd like to see that game next week. Notre Dame and Clemson. Winner gets a BCS berth. Good luck Domers. You'd need it.
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Here's how it works Stewart Mandel, SI.com
Charlie Weis is mystified. Following a dramatic 20-17 win over UCLA last weekend, the Notre Dame coach saw his team fall at least one spot in the AP, coaches and BCS rankings. How, he wonders, did the Irish get passed by both a Tennessee team that needed a last-minute rally itself to survive Alabama and a Florida team that didn't even play?
It's a valid question.
Then again, one could also ask another legitimate question in regards to the situation: How on earth were the Vols and Gators ranked behind Notre Dame in the first place?
Weis' comments about the poll situation at his weekly news conference on Tuesday -- which were plastered all over the Internet within hours -- exemplify one side of the latest Notre Dame-related debate amongst the college football public, one that's been building for several weeks now.
http://us.bc.yahoo.com/b?P=G.jwY9ht...099.9295428.10200269.1414694/D=LREC/B=4044505
As the 6-1 Irish keep on winning, their fans (and, apparently, their coach) are miffed as to why the team is not making a bigger dent in the polls. In the AP poll, for instance, Brady Quinn & Co. stand just one spot higher (11th) than they did the week after their blowout loss to Michigan.
Fans of the nation's other football powers, however -- nearly all of them born with an inherent resentment of Notre Dame -- aren't as bothered by the Irish's lack of poll traction. In fact, what they can't understand is why Weis' team is ranked as high as it is.
The words "Notre Dame is overrated" and "the media is in love with Notre Dame" have been a fixture of the college football lexicon since about the time Grantland Rice penned his famous ode to the Four Horsemen more than 80 years ago. They've become particularly prevalent, however, over the past two years as Weis returned the Irish to national prominence.
Nine times out of 10 you can chalk up such complaints to the inevitable backlash toward a school that has its own television contract and refuses to join a conference. The Irish could go out and beat Ohio State tomorrow and there would still be a legion of critics who found fault with them.
In this case, however, the people appear to be smarter than both the pollsters and Weis.
You know how in the weeks leading up to the NCAA basketball tournament, ESPN shows those graphics comparing two bubble teams' credentials without showing the teams' names? If you did that for Notre Dame, this is what the Irish's resume would look like using opponents' current BCS rankings:
For comparison's sake, here's the anonymous resume of "Team B," also currently 6-1:
As you can see, Team B's marquee win came against the No. 12 team, compared with No. 24 (Georgia Tech) for the Irish. Both then have four wins apiece over a similar range of foes (Nos. 29, 40, 46 and 49 for the Irish, Nos. 31, 34, 48 and 52 for Team B), and their sixth wins (No. 105 for ND, a I-AA foe for Team B) are basically irrelevant. Finally, Notre Dame lost by 26 at home to the No. 2 team in the country; Team B lost by two points on the road, but to the No. 52 team.
Basically, it's a toss-up as to which resume is more impressive. Even the teams' strength-of-schedule ratings are nearly identical (seventh for Team B, eighth for ND).
So, who exactly is Team B? Boston College -- currently ranked seven spots lower than the Irish in both major polls.
The point is, based purely on its accomplishments this season, Notre Dame compares more favorably to a team in the low teens, like BC, than it does to top-10 teams like Florida (with wins over two top-15 teams, Tennessee and LSU, and a close road loss to No. 5 Auburn) and Tennessee (wins over No. 10 Cal and No. 27 Georgia and a close loss to No. 6 Florida). So why do the Irish rank as high as they do?
Because of where they started.
Flash back to last season. Behind an explosive offense led by the likes of Quinn, Darius Walker and Jeff Samardzija, Weis' team went 9-3, winning seven of its games by 19 points or more and finishing ninth in the AP poll. With 16 starters returning from that team -- including all three aforementioned stars -- and with last year's juggernauts, Texas and USC, losing most of their biggest stars, pollsters (including this one) elevated Notre Dame to No. 2 in the preseason poll, trailing only Ohio State. The assumption was that Weis' offense would only get more powerful and his more experienced defense would become respectable.
Not only have neither of those things happened, but strangely, in nearly every statistical measure, the Irish have actually regressed.
In 2005, Notre Dame finished 10th nationally in total offense. This year it's 34th. The Irish have gone from eighth in scoring offense to 37th. Quinn, the nation's seventh-rated passer last season, has slipped to 34th. Walker, who averaged 99.7 yards per game and 4.7 yards per carry in '05, is averaging 82.7 and 4.1 in '06.
Notre Dame has improved on defense, allowing 64 fewer yards per game than it did last year (332.7, down from 396.9), but its ranking has only gone up from 75th to 61st. In terms of scoring defense, the Irish have actually gone down, from 53rd to 65th.
Are you getting the picture?
Apparently the voters are starting to grasp it, thus explaining the mysterious poll drops Weis is wondering about. The Irish tumbled 10 spots in both the AP and coaches poll following the Sept. 16 Michigan debacle, but since they started so high to begin with, it may be that they were still ranked too high even then. Since that time, Weis' team made a dramatic fourth-quarter rally to fend off Michigan State, allowed 490 yards in a 35-21 win over Purdue (5-3) and needed a last-second 45-yard touchdown pass to fend off UCLA.
It doesn't help the Irish's case that the Spartans went on to lose three straight games and needed a historic rally to slip past 2-6 Northwestern last weekend. Or that No. 21 Wisconsin held the same Purdue team to 286 yards in a 24-3 win last weekend; that the Bruins were hammered by No. 25 Oregon a week before their visit to South Bend; and that the best team they've beaten, Georgia Tech (14-10), just got trounced by No. 10 Clemson.
Therefore, Notre Dame's latest poll slide may not have been an indictment of its UCLA performance as much as it was an excuse for the pollsters to continue correcting an earlier wrong.
Speaking about the polls Tuesday, Weis jokingly asked the reporters present, "Tell me how that works? Maybe I'm stupid. Tell me how that works?"
Take a look at the numbers, coach. They're your explanation.
Here's how it works Stewart Mandel, SI.com
Charlie Weis is mystified. Following a dramatic 20-17 win over UCLA last weekend, the Notre Dame coach saw his team fall at least one spot in the AP, coaches and BCS rankings. How, he wonders, did the Irish get passed by both a Tennessee team that needed a last-minute rally itself to survive Alabama and a Florida team that didn't even play?
It's a valid question.
Then again, one could also ask another legitimate question in regards to the situation: How on earth were the Vols and Gators ranked behind Notre Dame in the first place?
Weis' comments about the poll situation at his weekly news conference on Tuesday -- which were plastered all over the Internet within hours -- exemplify one side of the latest Notre Dame-related debate amongst the college football public, one that's been building for several weeks now.
http://us.bc.yahoo.com/b?P=G.jwY9ht...099.9295428.10200269.1414694/D=LREC/B=4044505
As the 6-1 Irish keep on winning, their fans (and, apparently, their coach) are miffed as to why the team is not making a bigger dent in the polls. In the AP poll, for instance, Brady Quinn & Co. stand just one spot higher (11th) than they did the week after their blowout loss to Michigan.
Fans of the nation's other football powers, however -- nearly all of them born with an inherent resentment of Notre Dame -- aren't as bothered by the Irish's lack of poll traction. In fact, what they can't understand is why Weis' team is ranked as high as it is.
The words "Notre Dame is overrated" and "the media is in love with Notre Dame" have been a fixture of the college football lexicon since about the time Grantland Rice penned his famous ode to the Four Horsemen more than 80 years ago. They've become particularly prevalent, however, over the past two years as Weis returned the Irish to national prominence.
Nine times out of 10 you can chalk up such complaints to the inevitable backlash toward a school that has its own television contract and refuses to join a conference. The Irish could go out and beat Ohio State tomorrow and there would still be a legion of critics who found fault with them.
In this case, however, the people appear to be smarter than both the pollsters and Weis.
You know how in the weeks leading up to the NCAA basketball tournament, ESPN shows those graphics comparing two bubble teams' credentials without showing the teams' names? If you did that for Notre Dame, this is what the Irish's resume would look like using opponents' current BCS rankings:
For comparison's sake, here's the anonymous resume of "Team B," also currently 6-1:
As you can see, Team B's marquee win came against the No. 12 team, compared with No. 24 (Georgia Tech) for the Irish. Both then have four wins apiece over a similar range of foes (Nos. 29, 40, 46 and 49 for the Irish, Nos. 31, 34, 48 and 52 for Team B), and their sixth wins (No. 105 for ND, a I-AA foe for Team B) are basically irrelevant. Finally, Notre Dame lost by 26 at home to the No. 2 team in the country; Team B lost by two points on the road, but to the No. 52 team.
Basically, it's a toss-up as to which resume is more impressive. Even the teams' strength-of-schedule ratings are nearly identical (seventh for Team B, eighth for ND).
So, who exactly is Team B? Boston College -- currently ranked seven spots lower than the Irish in both major polls.
The point is, based purely on its accomplishments this season, Notre Dame compares more favorably to a team in the low teens, like BC, than it does to top-10 teams like Florida (with wins over two top-15 teams, Tennessee and LSU, and a close road loss to No. 5 Auburn) and Tennessee (wins over No. 10 Cal and No. 27 Georgia and a close loss to No. 6 Florida). So why do the Irish rank as high as they do?
Because of where they started.
Flash back to last season. Behind an explosive offense led by the likes of Quinn, Darius Walker and Jeff Samardzija, Weis' team went 9-3, winning seven of its games by 19 points or more and finishing ninth in the AP poll. With 16 starters returning from that team -- including all three aforementioned stars -- and with last year's juggernauts, Texas and USC, losing most of their biggest stars, pollsters (including this one) elevated Notre Dame to No. 2 in the preseason poll, trailing only Ohio State. The assumption was that Weis' offense would only get more powerful and his more experienced defense would become respectable.
Not only have neither of those things happened, but strangely, in nearly every statistical measure, the Irish have actually regressed.
In 2005, Notre Dame finished 10th nationally in total offense. This year it's 34th. The Irish have gone from eighth in scoring offense to 37th. Quinn, the nation's seventh-rated passer last season, has slipped to 34th. Walker, who averaged 99.7 yards per game and 4.7 yards per carry in '05, is averaging 82.7 and 4.1 in '06.
Notre Dame has improved on defense, allowing 64 fewer yards per game than it did last year (332.7, down from 396.9), but its ranking has only gone up from 75th to 61st. In terms of scoring defense, the Irish have actually gone down, from 53rd to 65th.
Are you getting the picture?
Apparently the voters are starting to grasp it, thus explaining the mysterious poll drops Weis is wondering about. The Irish tumbled 10 spots in both the AP and coaches poll following the Sept. 16 Michigan debacle, but since they started so high to begin with, it may be that they were still ranked too high even then. Since that time, Weis' team made a dramatic fourth-quarter rally to fend off Michigan State, allowed 490 yards in a 35-21 win over Purdue (5-3) and needed a last-second 45-yard touchdown pass to fend off UCLA.
It doesn't help the Irish's case that the Spartans went on to lose three straight games and needed a historic rally to slip past 2-6 Northwestern last weekend. Or that No. 21 Wisconsin held the same Purdue team to 286 yards in a 24-3 win last weekend; that the Bruins were hammered by No. 25 Oregon a week before their visit to South Bend; and that the best team they've beaten, Georgia Tech (14-10), just got trounced by No. 10 Clemson.
Therefore, Notre Dame's latest poll slide may not have been an indictment of its UCLA performance as much as it was an excuse for the pollsters to continue correcting an earlier wrong.
Speaking about the polls Tuesday, Weis jokingly asked the reporters present, "Tell me how that works? Maybe I'm stupid. Tell me how that works?"
Take a look at the numbers, coach. They're your explanation.
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Found this referenced on BN...
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Charlie Weis On Parcells' Verbal Abuse
Steve Kroft Profiles Notre Dame's Head Coach
(CBS) Once on the receiving end of a head coach's invective, Notre Dame's football coach, Charlie Weis, sure knows how to dish it out himself.
Weis recalls the abuse he took from Bill Parcells when he served under him with the New York Giants and explains why his own coaching style is often R-rated in a Steve Kroft report that airs on 60 Minutes this Sunday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Parcells hammered him the first time he offered advice at a coaches meeting, says Weis. "[Parcells] looks down at the end of the table with his scowl. Says 'You have been in the league for five minutes. No one cares what you think, so just sit there and shut up,'" Weis remembers Parcells saying.
The self-described "obnoxious, sarcastic guy from New Jersey" acknowledges that he was once Parcells' whipping boy. "I was it," he tells Kroft with a laugh. "I mean, there was no doubt. The hammer is coming out and it's being swung and swung hard."
"And now you're giving it?" asks Kroft.
"Yeah ? it's nice to be on the delivering end rather than the receiving end," Weis says with a laugh. He allowed 60 Minutes unique access to wire him for sound for two home games while he coached on the sidelines.
Being on the receiving end of Weis' ire is no fun ? and he knows it has earned him a reputation. Even his star quarterback, Brady Quinn, allows that the coach can be a jerk sometimes. But Weis makes no apologies for getting on his team. "I consider myself brutally honest. Whatever you have to do to get your point across, I make sure I get my point across," he tells Kroft. "When I am not happy, I make sure everyone around me feels the pressure."
The pressure is certainly on Weis, now that Notre Dame is back in the hunt for a national championship it hasn't won in 18 years. It's a goal that "can't happen soon enough," he says. Does it bother him? "You only feel pressure if you really care what everyone else thinks," says Weis, "and I really don?t care what everyone else thinks."
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(CBS) Once on the receiving end of a head coach's invective, Notre Dame's football coach, Charlie Weis, sure knows how to dish it out himself.
Weis recalls the abuse he took from Bill Parcells when he served under him with the New York Giants and explains why his own coaching style is often R-rated in a Steve Kroft report that airs on 60 Minutes this Sunday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Parcells hammered him the first time he offered advice at a coaches meeting, says Weis. "[Parcells] looks down at the end of the table with his scowl. Says 'You have been in the league for five minutes. No one cares what you think, so just sit there and shut up,'" Weis remembers Parcells saying.
The self-described "obnoxious, sarcastic guy from New Jersey" acknowledges that he was once Parcells' whipping boy. "I was it," he tells Kroft with a laugh. "I mean, there was no doubt. The hammer is coming out and it's being swung and swung hard."
"And now you're giving it?" asks Kroft.
"Yeah ? it's nice to be on the delivering end rather than the receiving end," Weis says with a laugh. He allowed 60 Minutes unique access to wire him for sound for two home games while he coached on the sidelines.
Being on the receiving end of Weis' ire is no fun ? and he knows it has earned him a reputation. Even his star quarterback, Brady Quinn, allows that the coach can be a jerk sometimes. But Weis makes no apologies for getting on his team. "I consider myself brutally honest. Whatever you have to do to get your point across, I make sure I get my point across," he tells Kroft. "When I am not happy, I make sure everyone around me feels the pressure."
The pressure is certainly on Weis, now that Notre Dame is back in the hunt for a national championship it hasn't won in 18 years. It's a goal that "can't happen soon enough," he says. Does it bother him? "You only feel pressure if you really care what everyone else thinks," says Weis, "and I really don?t care what everyone else thinks."
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