THE WORLD’S HIGHEST PAID INTERN
We’re trying one teeny little test post here, tempting fate to see how malicious the internet gods are today. But read a burrrrrrn like this one, and you do what you must do when someone says something horrible and horribly accurate about someone suffering through a miserable time in their lives. You share it with the world, naturally.
Charlie Weis is the world’s highest-paid intern.
Oh, Greg Couch of the Chicago Sun-Times, you burn like the sweet tang of aerosolized capiscum.
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Actually, he swallows - everything he can get his hands on.
Comment by NewAZTiger — November 16, 2007 @ 10:44 pm
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No, I’m telling you that he recruited a ton of Offensive linemen in these bottom two classes. But they’re frosh and sophs. And that’s where the lack of experience and age is being felt. Lineman generally (and please don’t cite me isolated incidents) aren’t ready to play until their junior years.
ND has one fifth year senior at center, two very low talent upper classmen (Ty’s recruits that, though untalented still start becuase they’re simply older and more physically developed than the 19 year olds that Weis recruited) and two underclassmen that are talented….but underclassmen.
That said, if the line still struggles next year, we don’t even need to revisit this subject to agree that he sucks.
Comment by Brian — November 15, 2007 @ 7:50 pm
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So you’re telling me it took Weiss 3 years to discover he didn’t have an O-line?
Comment by NewAZTiger — November 15, 2007 @ 7:47 am
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Here’s the problem with writers like this and short-sighted, ill-informed opinions. They over-simplify things.
Here are the facts. Notre Dame is in the worst season in its illustrious history. Some of it is the fault of the laziest coach in college football who refused to recruit for three years (those classes were ranked reasonably, but they lacked any significant linemen..which we can all agree is the MAJOR problem at ND this year). And some of it is Weis’s fault.
You can’t argue that AFA or Navy was more talented than ND, no matter how little talent Ty brought in. So you can’t blame it all on him. But you also can’t name me a team that is playing with less experience and fewer upper classmen than ND is this year either.
But here are the differences between the two that lead to the different treatments:
1. Weis works hard. Ty did not. It’s a well known fact that Ty averaged 72 holes a week DURING the football season. He would check into the golf course on campus using a pseudonym so as to protect his anonymity. Weis is in his office at quarter to five EVERY morning.
2. Weis is recruiting. He has the number one class in America at this point coming in. You don’t fire a coach..any coach when that’s the case. You chance losing those recruits. And that could be devastating…beyond this one year debacle. Ty, on the other hand left him with a team that had fewer than 75 scholarship players. By contrast. After the University of Miami endured the second strongest penalty in the history of the NCAA, they were left with 75 scholarships.
3. Weis’s record is the same as Ty’s or one worse, I’ve lost track. But a much better measure of success is successful seasons. Now you can argue that ND didn’t deserve to go to the two BCS bowls until you’re blue in the face. They were 9-2 and 10-2 regardless. Those are successful seasons. Further, the 9-2 season was one in which most pundits predicted us to be 6-6 at best. Ty on the other hand, won with Bob Davie’s recruits (hey if you can argue that Weis won with his, than you can’t deny that either) and then won 5 and 6 games. That’s not a blip. That’s a pattern of mediocrity. Add to that the lack of any recruiting..and well..you figure it out. I’ll freely agree that if Weis wins fewer than 8 games next year, he should and will be fired.
4. Weis is learning and willing to change things. In year two he fired and re-hired his defensive coordinator. There will be more changes this year. These include a willingness to accept blame (he does that every week, but the media takes one quote in the 11th game and makes it seem as if he throws his players under the bus) and a willingness to admit wrong. The only reason we know he’s changing his practices is because he’s said so. Let’s contrast that with Ty. In year three, Ty was told that he needed to replace his offesnive coordinators or he wouldn’t be asked back. He refused citing loyalty..the same loyalty that he DIDN’T show when he moved to Washington and refused to take along the same coordinator that he was asked to fire. He also routinely (and still does) threw his players under the bus. One of his famous quotes was, “I don’t have a bad day.” This came after he ALWAYS blamed “execution.” He still does. ASk Washington fans.
Now that I’ve written a novel, I won’t get into the ridiculousness of saying that ND has the only easy way into the BCS when Michigan could back its way in despite losing to any team that’s worth a damn and that Florida St. made it at 6-5(I think) last year.
Comment by Brian — November 13, 2007 @ 10:03 pm
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PortTrojan, it’s hard not to be patronizing when clarifying a relatively simple statement. You make a good point, and hopefully future coaching candidates will perceive the situation as a problem with Weis, rather than one with ND.
NewAZtiger: I think you’re finally starting to understand my original post. I don’t think many rational football fans would argue that ND’s struggles are almost entirely due to coaching inadequacy. I’ve noticed that many programs are succeeding with Freshmen at key positions, which calls Weis’ ability to develop players into question.
Comment by adam — November 13, 2007 @ 6:28 pm