I cannot believe the Notre Dame faithful will allow an arrogant coach who has produced a whopping 9 victories in the last 2 seasons to remain employed for another season. Let's take a closer look at some facts from the Weis era:
-Highest ranked victory #19 Penn St. on 9/9/06
-He is best remembered for ALMOST beating USC (with Ty Willingham's players)
-He has recruited 4 straight top 10 classes yet only finished in the top 10 once (#9 in 2005.)
-I can't hit this point home enough, after 4 years of bringing in stellar talent and getting his system implemented he has managed to produce 9 wins the last 2 seasons. As a comparative, after Iowa knocks off South Carolina in the Outback bowl Iowa will have just as many wins, only in one season.
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I think I am the lone writer on this blog that does not hate Notre Dame. With that said, by any objective measure, and objective measures are all that really counts, the Fat One has been an unmitigated failure for ND.
Yet, I think Notre Dame made the right move by keeping him on for at least another year. ND fired Tyrone "getting wiggy with it" Willingham far too soon. Canning the hamburgler now would cast Notre Dame in the mold of the mid-90s Chicago Cubs: a horrid team changing managers every two years.
In college FB, continuity is more important than perhaps any other sport. Without continuity you can't recruit top players, you can't recruit players that fit a certain scheme, and you can't develop any kind of identity.
Then again, you can't do any of that if you only win 9 games in two years either....
ND has a reputation for not fireing coaches before their 5-year contract is up. Since 1964 only 2 head coached have not made it 5 years, and one of then was George O'Leary (don't lie on the coaching application, they do actually check in to those things i guess) the other of course being Ty.
Heard an interesting point of view on this, that the fact that the coaching job was in question was being used against them by other schools to steal recruits. ND needs players, they could not risk losing what talent they managed to woo (after the last couple of years) to other schools becasue the kids want to know who the coach is.
It's not that i hate ND, i would just like to see them fail so that one day they come knocking on the door of the Big Ten and we get to say, sorry, you're on your own.
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