Before the ‘05 season, Blue-Gray Sky and EDSBS did a little bit of soul-healing comparison between Urban Meyer, who spurned Notre Dame for Florida sunshine, and Charlie Weis, who took ultimately took the job in South Bend. Find both pieces heeyah and heeeyah for your perusal, but basically we both ended up saying pretty much what you would expect loyal, blood-raging college football fans of a particular team to say: I gotta man.
Revisiting the issue, though, we have to say that little’s changed. Weis made far more out of the Irish than any thought, but unless you filled your expectations with the bubbliest of heliums–effervescent hype–Meyer did with the Gators about what most expected, though not without surprises of both the nasty and pleasant variety. After 12 games, including bitter rivalry games, losses to conference nonentities previously overlooked, and tightly contested bowl games, we review the Fat Man and the Pointer, two coaches who should be tied together for the remainder of their coaching careers.
W/L: Both 9-3, though if you believe in upward trends, Meyer gets the slightest of upper hands for winning the bowl game AND humiliating eventual ACC champions FSU and beating Iowa in the bowl game. Iowa’s not exactly Ohio State, though, a team who nearly crapped in the cheerios of Texas’ dream season. Could be a push, but we’ll play our homer card and give Meyer the marginal edge with the bowl game win.
Fashion: Meyer didn’t stray far from the khakis and golf shirt uniform, so much so that we imagine him opening his closet a la Bugs Bunny and selecting one from a rack full of identical, pressed, matching outfits.
Meyer: sometimes he went crazy and wore khaki pants.
Weis, on the other hand, utlized the full range of Adidas couture options to dazzling effect:
Intro…stunner with the blue tie ND nod and nattily cut suit that definitely looked anything but “straight off the big and tall rack…”
…and dove straight into late summer/fall with the suave golf shirt khakis combo…
I proclaim this…screen pass day!
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