Sunday, September 23, 2007

The Affirmative Action Notre Dame Coach

At 0-4 and getting throttled every time they play, Notre Dame is a really lousy team. Michael Rosenberg of Fox Sports and the Detroit Free Press sums up the situation nicely.
Notre Dame is on the hook for another $20-some-million to an offensive genius who can't pick up a first down, let alone a win. They are dead last in the country in total offense by a wide margin. They are staring 0-8 in the face.

The "offensive genius" is head coach Charlie Weis who now seems to have ridden Brady Quinn's coattails to bowl games in his first two seasons.

Notre Dame is one of the impatient programs that tires of coaches who can't win championships, gets itchy trigger fingers with coaches who go 10-2 but loses the big rivalry game, and fires anybody who goes 6-5.

The others include Ohio State, Oklahoma, Nebraska, LSU, Alabama, and Auburn.

With Charlie Weis at 0-4 and the team looking pathetic, one has to wonder why he hasn't been fired already.

Maybe Notre Dame is keeping him out of affirmative action considerations.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Personally, for any coach, I think it is unfair to evaluate them prior to the completion of their 4th season. At that point in time, all of the players in the program are recruits of the coach, and their systems have been implemented with their own personnel. Until that point, you are still on the front side of the learning curve.

Good win for UK.

Anonymous said...

Fellows, it appears we have achieved consensus. I can't help but agree with the points each of you made.