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Ahhh - you gotta love it. Deadspin taking it to that fraud Charlie Weiss who’s entire career was built on illegal sign stealing. Basically college football’s version of Cyrano. Now he allefedly doesn’t want to talk about his star quarterback being photoed drinking … IN A BEER OLYMPICS … while underage. A red flag not for the drinking, but for the fact that this idiot posed for one of several pictures - and at an institution that prides itself on being holier than thou (literally).

Jimmy Clausen Beer Olympics: Charlie Weis Would Not Like To Discuss The Beer Olympics, Thank You

Q. Not going to be any discipline?
COACH WEIS: Let’s move on on.

Now, here’s the thing: If this were any other coach you might be able to give him credit for protecting his players from these types of questions and prolonging the “controversy.” But Charlie Weis is, for all intents and purposes, is just an absolute prick. According to several people who’ve had the displeasure of dealing with him on a professional level, he’s the most unhelpful, paranoid person, who, for whatever reason carries himself with such an air of entitlement, you’d think his lunchmeat-stuffed body was able to levitate.

But what makes this particular response so disingenuous is the fact that Weiss will cloak himself in self-righteousness when its convenient for him (i.e. Dana Jacobson) and can praise himself for not recruiting a bunch of “hoodlums and thugs” yet he can sit there and stonewall a reporter on a pretty legitimate question about the possible ramifications from this incident? All he had to say was, “We’re looking into it” or “It’s still being investigated and I’ll keep you updated as soon as I hear something.” Instead they get “Let’s move on.”

At the next press conference the first question a reporter should ask Weis is this: Charlie, exactly how full of shit and under-qualified are you?

Let’s move on.

Oh “Not Nice” Charlie Weiss - when will you acknowledge that you suck? will it take Notre Dame going 0-12? If so - count me among the many that will be cheering for that to happen this year. GO TEAM!

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I always love it when people are piling on Notre Dame and ol’ “Crewcut Charlie.” This time it’s Jason Whitlock, courtesy of The Big Lead

“Notre Dame is not the place to learn how to be a college head coach. It didn’t work for Gerry Faust or Bob Davie. It’s not working for Mr. Charlie. As fun as it might sound, you don’t want to lose your virginity to Jenna Jameson. You won’t last long. She’ll get bored and frustrated. And everyone who sees the tape will fall down laughing. Sounds like most Notre Dame games this year, doesn’t it?”

Unfortunately Jenna ain’t looking so hot these days. Seems she’s on the Nicole Richie train these days - down to 92 pounds. Dude - Roscoes! STAT!

Whitlock concludes by yelling “O-VER-RA-TED”:

In the NFL, Weis worked with finished products, and he had eight hours a day to mentally prepare them. You get half of that time in the college game, and the players, particularly at Notre Dame, have a pesky distraction called schoolwork.
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In the NFL, you spend all of your energy thinking about Sunday. In the college game, you have to consistently think about next year.
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Am I stating unequivocally that Weis and Notre Dame won’t rebound in 2008? No.

I’m stating that Charlie Weis is overpaid. I’m stating that Weis is not the second coming of Bear Bryant. I’m stating that Notre Dame had no business giving him a contract extension, and we all should’ve pointed it out then. I’m stating that if the man was going to run out on his alma mater and head to the NFL after one year, then it would’ve said a whole lot about his lack of ethics. I’m stating that high-ranked recruiting classes won’t single-handedly fix Notre Dame.

The Great Weis Hope needs to fix himself first by toning down the arrogance and acknowledging he has much to learn about what it takes to win consistently in the college game.

Don’t Worry, Jason. I’ll state unequivocally that Weis and Notre Dame won’t rebound in 2008. Or 2009. Maybe 2010 if Jimmy Clauson rounds out to something good.

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I don’t fashion myself a great writer or anything so I can try all I want to bash Notre Dame and, in the grand scheme of things it’s like fighting off a shark with a plastic knife. But when I see such a beautiful verbal evisceration of said storied institution, I just have to stand down and let the masters go to work:

In the entire history of American sports hype, has there ever been any fraud more grossly fraudulent than Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis?

Weis’ Fighting Irish now stand at 1-7. This record is only the faintest indicator of just how awful Notre Dame is. They have lost nine of their last 10 games, by an average of 24 points. None has been close. While Notre Dame has suffered very few injuries, three of its opponents have had to play the Irish without their starting quarterbacks. Two of those teams, USC and Michigan, nonetheless beat Notre Dame by a larger margin than either has beaten any other opponent so far this year. Notre Dame’s lone win came against UCLA, which had been forced to use its third-string quarterback, a walk-on. In that game, Notre Dame compiled just 140 yards of offense, but won with the help of seven Bruin turnovers, five of them hand-delivered courtesy of the hapless walk-on signal-caller.

Just how bad is Notre Dame? Of the 119 teams in Division I-A, ND is 119th in total offense, 119th in rushing offense, 112th in passing offense, and 118th in scoring. If Notre Dame had doubled its scoring output, it would still rank 108th. If it doubled its rushing output (currently 34 yards a game), it would barely eke out Duke for 118th place.

You get the point. I should stop now.

OK, one more. Notre Dame is averaging 1.09 yards per rush this year. The NCAA statistical archive goes back only to 1999. The worst yards per carry recorded in that period belongs to a 2001 University of Arizona squad that gained 1.46 yards per attempt. So, the worst rushing team recorded by the NCAA in the last nine years was still about one-third better than Notre Dame.

This is not merely bad. This is ineptitude on a staggering, world-historical scale. Such a performance would be prima facie evidence for firing the coach even at a doormat program like Indiana. At a school like Notre Dame, well … it’s simply impossible to describe how awful this performance is…

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Touchdown Jesus? More like Field Goal Jesus. First Down Jesus. E for Effort Jesus.

Maybe it’s because of the nostalgia. Maybe the academic prestige. Whatever the reason, somehow Notre Dame Football is made out to be head and shoulders above all - and I don’t like it. I don’t like the whole religious overtones of Touchdown Jesus or God’s Team - implying that God would want them to win more games than USC or even Boston College. I don’t like the fact that they’re the only team in Division IA that has it’s own TV contract. I don’t like that the Big East Conference has Notre Dame in every sport except football, yet if Notre Dame has 6 wins, they automatically kick a Big East team out of a bowl game or a BCS game. But most of all, I don’t like what they’ve been about recently.

A few years back, after some tough times in the post Lou Holtz era, they fired Bob Davie and hired then Georgia Tech head coach Dennis O’Leary to be their head coach, only to fire him when it turned up that he had some inaccuracies (read: lies) in his resume dating back to his college days. So Notre Dame can’t have that stain on their record. They’re Notre Dame. After a search, they eventually hired Tyrone Willingham from Stanford. Monumental hire as he was the first black head coach at a prominent D IA university - ney - the MOST prominent (allegedly). Monumental in that while strides have been made for minority coaches in pro sports, the same was sorely lacking in college football. There were something like 4 head coaches amongst the 117 programs.

Ty was, by all accounts, the salt of the earth. Good guy. Solid guy. Does things the right way. Runs a clean program. Basically - the kind of guy you’d want your kids to play for. Ty Willingham got off to a great start in his first season, but ran into tougher times in the following 2 seasons and the pressure had been mounting for them to make a change. Keep in mind, no other Notre Dame coach was given less than 5 years to prove themselves. It was here that Notre Dame had an opportunity to live up to their reputation. To show their clamoring boosters that they were above the typical low-class tactics of football factories like Alabama and Ohio State. That they didn’t let the old-boy network run their program. So what’d they do? The fired Ty.

Ty landed on his feet at the University of Washington - back in the somewhat less-stained Pac-10. Notre Dame took some heat and were rebuffed by a few of their top choices for the job - including reigning National Championship head coach Urban Meyer - who chose UF instead. Eventually they landed Charlie Weiss - the offensive coordinator from the Pats - who came in with a different approach. He was the NFL coach who would bring his system to college. He was the guy behind the 3 time Super Bowl champion Patriots. He was the one who turned Tom Brady into what hie is today. Right.

Ol’ Chuck Weiss also had a great first year, after which he was awarded with a 10 year contract. TEN YEARS!?! He proved himself for a year and got a 10 year extension! Weiss’ record didn’t improve in his second year and now in his third year Notre Dame sits at 1-7 on the year. They will not go to a bowl game and have routinely had their asses waxed on the field this season, most recently by USC.

The Irish are at the wrong end compared to a lot of teams. They also lost 38-0 to Michigan earlier this season. The two 38-point losses are tied for the eighth worst losses in Notre Dame history. It was the worst Irish home loss, though, since they were beaten 40-0 by top-ranked Oklahoma in 1956. When asked if he believes the Irish have hit rock bottom, Weis chose his words carefully. “I’m going to answer that very cautiously, because I don’t want to be called sarcastic using New Jersey rhetoric,” he said. “So let me just say people better enjoy it now, have their fun now.”

Karma is a bitch, ain’t it?