Charlie Weiss Quoted

[BigDFan5]

I didn't see anything about a $15 million buyout on a single one of those links.

Neither did I LOL

 

[dallasfan31]

weis not going nowhere its too good at nd.

 

[DLK150]

I wonder if this was from the PC that was referenced:
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Same old story

Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis' reworked contract last October 29 was supposed to make these kinds of reports obsolete. ... that NFL teams are calling and enticing and looking for loopholes.

Notre Dame tried to take a preemptive strike with more money, more contract years and a ridiculously cumbersome buyout.

And yet at least two NFL teams recently sent feelers out to the Irish second-year head coach to see if his heart or his new pact were fickle.

"When we redid my contract last year, it should have alleviated any doubt that I'm leaving Notre Dame," said Weis, who actually meant to say Wednesday that the doubt which was alleviated was that he was staying at Notre Dame.

"Last year they called to see if you were interested, because you hadn't done the contract yet. This year, they're calling to see if the contract is real. They want to find out if what they hear you're saying is actually what the truth is. How many times do I have to say the same thing?"

And then he answered his own rhetorical question. It won't end.

"It would cost me too much money to leave," he said. "Money I do not have. Millions of dollars. It's flattering they inquire. But the bottom line still is that's why we did (the contract restructuring) last year. Yes they called. They called last year. They called this year. They'll call again.

"There will be feelers, but everyone knows that I'm staying here until they fire me or I die."

http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061019/NDSports02/610190423

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If this was the statement, it sounds like a verbal miscue by Weis as much as anything else.

 

[StanleySpadowski]

5) they will be too afraid to join a real conference.

This is pure stupidity.

Look up "capitalism" online, you might learn something.


ND is a football independent because keeping that status puts about $7 million more per year into the athletic department's coffers than any conference alignment would thanks to the NBC contract.

 

[burmafrd]

Those links I posted were the only ones I could find in a quick search. I will look for some more. I do recall something that was NOT on a blog or forum that talked about the $15 million buyout.
As far as those that somehow want to claim that Willingham got the shaft and that Weis is not a better coach- then how do you explain him doing so much better in 2005 with the same players that Willingham could barely break .500 with?

 

[burmafrd]

LOve how the Irish haters keep making up stuff.
That BS move that Leinart got away with in the USC game last year- if the refs were in ND's pocket as some fools claim that would have been called.
ND played the toughest first 5 games in the country this season according to Sagarin. While teams like the mighty SEC were playing 1-AA and bottom feeder 1A teams. Look at many top teams and tell me who they play first or second games? ND has to play the big conference teams early in the year since they insist on playing their conference games after the first 3-4. The service academies are frankly better then many of the teams that the big boys schedule outside of the conference. By the way, this year Rutgers is pretty tough. Outside of Army and Stanford, we do not really play any give me games this year.

 

[BeWare94]

$15 million is the current cost of buying out his contract. I do not see many teams really, when it comes down to writing THAT check, that will do it.

If he's the hot item of the moment we can expect the Commanders to can Joe Gibbs and buy out Weiss' contract

 

[burmafrd]

I would like to think that CW has a lot more class then to have anything to do with danny boy.

 

[jterrell]

In the end Weis very, very, very likely leaves for the pros.

The ones that do not at least try the pros seldom were pro coordinators.

Weis could have been a college coach long ago. He must have some desire to coach at the highest level.

He didn't go to the pros until the right job came along and won't go tot he pros IMHO until the right job comes along.

I think at least two scenarios would interest him.

Here where the offense he runs has been installed and some offensive coaches have shared backgrounds, he could be part of a triumvrate that handles personnel decisions and talent is not minimal.

But even moreso with whatever team ends up with his QB, Brady Quinn.

If Quinn were to fall a bit and we traded up to nab him that would really IMHO make Weis think long and hard. He can certainly win at ND. But each year is a new team with new challenges and arduous recruiting schedules. On the pro level its a huge challenge but he could control to some extent the tenure of his key players as well as spend more time on the actual coaching/game-planning aspect.

 

[Glenn Carano]

Two years prior to his arrival they had a rather impressive season considering what had been left in the cupboards. Ty left him with better talent than what he got when he arrived. Thus his success his first year. Who is to say whether or not Ty would have had the same success. The media has painted this picture that Weiss was ND's savior. Time will tell. But ND will always get the benefit of the doubt. And their criterior for making the BCS is different than that of any other team in the country.

Yes, Carroll struggled in the NFL and maybe that was due to he need to hone his coaching skills a bit more. Being a successful assistant on SB winning teams is no guarantee of ability nor success. Ask Campo, Norv, Wanstant (sp) or Crennell. Carroll is a better coach now than he was back then. And better than Weiss minus the ND hype. And I'm a UT fan, so that took a lot for me to say that.

Stop it with the Ty Willingham junk. He was a terrible coach and he proved it and was rightly canned. I stole this from an ND board from last November.


THE TY WILLINGHAM FACT SHEET:
1. Tyrone Willingham has lost 8 games by at least 3 touchdowns. By comparison, Bob Davie lost 4 games by 3 touchdowns and Gerry Faust lost 3 games by 3 touchdowns. That means that in 3 years Tyrone Willingham has lost more games by 3 touchdowns than Bob Davie and Gerry Faust did in their 10 years combined.

2. Notre Dame was shut out by at least 30 points twice in 2003. The last time that happened was 1904.
3. In Tyrone Willingham’s first 3 years, Notre Dame has lost by at least 30 points 5 times. For perspective, in the previous 40 seasons (1961-2000), Notre Dame lost by at least 30 points a total of 4 times. Bob Davie only lost by 30 points 1 time, as did Gerry Faust.
4. The 38-12 loss to 6-6 Syracuse was Notre Dame’s first 3 touchdown loss to an unranked team since 1960.
5. From the 44-13 loss to Southern Cal in 2002 until the 20-17 loss to a 5-6 Brigham Young team, Notre Dame lost 10 games over a 15 game stretch. That was the worst 15 game stretch since 1960.
6. Tyrone Willingham is the first Notre Dame coach since Joe Kuharich (17-23) to have fewer wins by 3 touchdowns (5) than he had losses by 3 touchdowns (8). Bob Davie had twice as many 3 touchdown wins as losses (8 wins, 4 losses). Gerry Faust had over 4 times as many (14 wins, 3 losses).
7. In 2003, Tyrone Willingham became the first Notre Dame coach to have consecutive 4 TD losses to Southern Cal. In 2004, he had his 3rd in a row.
8. Tyrone Willingham has been a Notre Dame coach for 3 years out of the school’s 117 years (2.6% of the seasons) and has coached in 36 of Notre Dame’s 1,106 games (3.3%), however, he has coached in 23.8% (5 out of 21) of Notre Dame’s losses by at least 30 points.
9. After starting out 8-0, Tyrone Willingham’s record since has been 13-15.
10. When Tyrone Willingham took over, Notre Dame had the #1 all time winning percentage, with a record of 781-247-42 (.749), ahead of Michigan’s 813-265-36 (.746). At the end of the regular season of 2004, Michigan now has the #1 all time winning percentage, with a record of 842-274-36 (.747) while Notre Dame is #2 with a record of 802-261-42 (.745).
Some miscellaneous stats:
Three Notre Dame opponent records have been set in the last 3 years: Most passing yards against Notre Dame (425 yards)- Carson Palmer, USC, 2002
Most receiving yards against Notre Dame (217 yards)- Craphonso Thorpe,
FSU, 2003
Most passing touchdowns against Notre Dame (5)- Tyler Palko, Pitt,
2004, Matt Leinart, USC, 2004

Total Scoring Margins Through Their First Three Years at Notre Dame:
Ara Parseghian +731
Dan Devine +517
Gerry Faust +241
Lou Holtz +438
Bob Davie + 114
Tyrone Willingham +18

In the 117-year history of Notre Dame football, Notre Dame has lost by
more than 30 points 20 times.
Here is a listing of those losses, detailing year, coach, opponent, and
score:
1900 - O'Dea - Wisconsin - 54-0
1904 - Salmon - Wisconsin - 58-0
1904 - Salmon - Purdue 36-0
1905 - McGlew - Purdue - 32-0
1944 - McKeever - Army - 59-0
1945 - Devore - Army - 48-0
1945 - Devore - Great Lakes - 39-7
1951 - Leahy - Michigan State - 35-0
1956 - Brennan - Michigan State - 47-14
1956 - Brennan - Oklahoma - 40-0
1956 - Brennan - Iowa - 48-8
1960 - Kuharich - Purdue - 51-19
1972 - Parseghian - Nebraska - 40-6
1974 - Parseghian - USC - 55-24
1985 - Faust - Miami - 58-7
2000 - Davie - Oregon State - 41-9
2002 - Willingham - USC - 44-13
2003 - Willingham - Michigan - 38-0
2003 - Willingham - USC - 45-14
2003 - Willingham - Florida State 37-0
2004 - Willingham - USC - 41-10

The Five Year Myth
It is a myth that every coach at Notre Dame has an inalienable right to five years to prove himself. That has never been policy. Fifteen coaches in Notre Dame's storied history have, for various reasons, had tenures of less than five years. That list includes Kuharich, Devore, McKeever and Anderson since Rockne. More recently coaches Davie and Faust were given five years, and those decisions proved to be miserable failures. There was some justification to warrant Faust's extra time given his high school background and Father Ted's personal commitment to him, but giving Davie five years was gross negligence. The five-year plan is not policy and even if it were time has proven it to be a colossal failure that should be learned from and not repeated. Ara himself set the standard by boldly stating upon his arrival that if you can’t do it in three years, you can’t do it. And without exception this has proven to be true. In the entire history of Notre Dame, no coach who failed at the three year mark, succeeded in five years. There are some who claim that because of parity, restrictions and other issues, that Notre Dame can't win anymore, but they said the exact same things before both Ara and Lou arrived in South Bend and were proved wrong. Tedford, Meyer, Carroll, Stoops, Tressel, Amato, Friedgen, Holtz and others have made immediate impacts on their schools, most with far, far less talent than Notre Dame. When the five-year myth is promulgated by media talking heads and writers, it’s important to note that most of those talking heads and scribes are not fans of Notre Dame or speaking in Our Lady's best interest.

"Lack of Talent": The Excuse and The Myth
Notre Dame has more consensus top 25 starters than USC, Tennessee and Michigan. * Phil Steele
Only one Notre Dame recruiting class was ranked below consensus #7. That is Ty's latest class.*Phil Steele
Notre Dame has 15 Parade and USA Today first or second team All-Americans, including linebacker, wide receiver, defensive back, and every position along the offensive and defensive lines.
ND vs. USC - Talent
(Post script - Now that the ND-SC game is over its is easy to see there is some validity in the composite rankings below. In the 1st Quarter Notre Dame dominated USC proving they had at least similar raw talent. Then - coaching took over. The superior USC coaches steadily adjusted on both sides of the ball, and the ever-stumbling Irish coaches didn't ... resulting in their 8th blow-out loss in 3 years, more than Faust & Davie could manage in 10.)
The data below represents volumes of hard data compiled on thousands of high school football players by Parade, SuperPrep, Lemming, Emfinger, G&W Recruiting Advisor, Prepstar, AND Rivals over the past 5 years, with no thought to bolstering anyone's argument for this Saturday's ND-USC game. (Please see page 294 of Steel's 2004 issue for more information on how this data is compiled.) You may want to consider looking at all the top recruit rankings, not just Rivals to determine a more accurate picture of the composite raw talent rankings by ALL top recruiting services of ALL high school AND junior college entrants to Div 1 programs. I doubt that all of the Rivals execs will share your willingness to shout about how foolish these other services must be just because there are cases where they may disagree somewhat on an individual recruit's ranking. In my opinion, these composite rankings of all top 6 recruiting services (including Rivals), while imperfect, give us a better gauge, OVER TIME, of which Head Coaches TEND to get more from less ROUTINELY and which HC's don't do that. Every ND HC coach who has been hired on Malloy's watch has failed to inspire, teach, develop, utilize and coach the raw talent they get to even meet, never mind exceed their potential. That is unfair to these kids. If you are really determined to argue that point (other than just calling anyone who disagrees with your poorly researched argument - a "fool"), you have a lot more work to do.
ND & SC starters (taken from their web site today) and how they were ranked at their position by a composite of the top 6 recruiting services leaving high school or JC in the country.
OFFENSE
ND - SC
QB Quinn (12) - Leinart (9),
BACKS Walker (13)/Grant (25)/P-Neal (36) - White (7)/Bush (5)/Webb (253)
WR Stovall (4)/McKnight (9)/Holiday (8)/Samardzija (22) - Smith (3)/Buchanan (23)/McFay (76)/Jarrett (4)
TE Fasano (8) - Holmes (5)
OL Sullivan (3)/LeVoir (4)/Morton (14)/Harris (18)/Stevenson (19) - Lutui (4)/Matua (12)/Baker (15)/Kalil (34)/Drake (113)
DEFENSE
DL Abiamiri (1)/Pauly (4)/Landri (5)/Tuck (16) - Cody (1)/Jackson (6)/Patterson (140)/Rucker (Unranked)
LB Goolsby (4)/Curry (25)/Hoyte (29) - Grootegood (3)/Santz (23)/Tatupu (Unranked)
CB Campbell (18)/Ellick (Unranked)/Jackson (69) - Wyatt (25)/Nunn (165)
S Zbikowski (9)/Burrell (21) - Bing (4)/Leach (29)
As expected USC ranks very well in the rankings for their overall recruit classes over the last 5 years (based on a composite of these same top 6 recruiting services, including Rivals) that comprise their 2004 squad = 11, 13, 7, 1, 1 for a very low total of 33 recruit points or an average of 6.6 per year. Very few teams in the country could match such impressive numbers. Surprisingly however, ND is one of those teams. In fact ND had an even lower 6, 5, 5, 3 (for a best-in-the-country average of 4.8) prior to Ty's last #17 ranked class that brought the 2004 team total recruit points up to 36 - for a still very low average of 7.2. Despite this none of us would argue that ND has as much talent TODAY as SC, just that they did have more comparable raw talent when each of the past 5 classes arrived at each school. The major difference is that ND's talent (under any Malloy hire) is never fully inspired, developed, utilized, taught, prepared or coached.

 

[2much2soon]

"It would cost me too much money to leave," he said. "Money I do not have. Millions of dollars. It's flattering they inquire. But the bottom line still is that's why we did (the contract restructuring) last year. Yes they called. They called last year. They called this year. They'll call again.

Yes!
This is what cow herd kept repeating this morning when I heard it.
Cow herd spun it by leaving off everything after the part "Millions of dollars".

 

[burmafrd]

ANd he will keep giving the morons the same answer.

 

[Aikbach]

If Daniel Snyder is smart he'll do this as soon as possible (buy out Weiss). Gibbs needs to return to servicing Staubach and Aikman's racing team. And Suanders and Williams were both flops at the head coaching level. New blood for DC if they really want to match the Cowboy style of play.

 

[2much2soon]

If anyone needed any proof of ESPN's lack of credibility...
Sad, just sad.
They were once a great sports network. Back in the early '80s.
Now, every day they get closer and closer to being the National Inquirer of sports reporting.

 

[theogt]

So I take it we still don't have a single source re: $15 MM buyout clause. Nice.

 

[Bizwah]

If anyone needed any proof of ESPN's lack of credibility...
Sad, just sad.
They were once a great sports network. Back in the early '80s.
Now, every day they get closer and closer to being the National Inquirer of sports reporting.

I can't even watch SportsCenter any more.

What I would love to see is an alternative to ESPN. FoxSports is only regional, therefore they can't compete.

I think competition would be good for ESPN.

 

[Aikbach]

I can't even watch SportsCenter any more.

What I would love to see is an alternative to ESPN. FoxSports is only regional, therefore they can't compete.

I think competition would be good for ESPN.

I think the NFL Network may end up doing this if they position themselves correctly.

 

[bbgun]

So we replace one fat coach with another. Sounds good.

 

[Aikbach]

As long as they coach, I wouldn't care if they signed Def Leppard's one armed drummer as long as he was a good coach, although i doubt he is.

 

[kartr]

What about going after Tressel of Ohio State if Weis is not available? He seems to have built a consistent winner.