Charlie Weis Press Conference

[GO IRISH!!!]

In my opinion, these changes are just as much preventative for future issues as they are reactionary to some of the current problems. Let's face it, Corwin Brown is going to be a head coach very, very soon. He is not a career coordinator. I have always viewed Tenuta as a fail safe in case Brown gets a HC offer. Tenuta is a very capable coordinator who could take over on short notice. I see this as overlapping insurance for when Brown is lured away. I see him being in South Bend one, maybe two, more years.

The Randy Hart hire is the same thing. He is going to mentor Bryant Young to become DL coach very soon. The changes are very logical to me and really seem to set the groundwork for the coaching staff in much the same way they lay the foundation for players as well. Coach Weis seems to be thinking two or three years down the road for the coaching staff.

 

[allnd1962]

GO IRISH I agree with you...I think Charlie is working for this year but also preparing for 3 or 4 years down the road. He knows it will not end for him after this year.

 

[onenybrother]

It's glad to see that Charlie is hiring coaches for the future. Let's be realistic though. Things has to change or Brown might be the only one who survive's the outcome. I hate to see Coaches in the booth so i dont want to see the Mad Scientist go that route.

 

[TDHeysus]

Having Bryant Young around is great for the program, he was a part of the last (successful) program at ND and he knows what is needed to breed that culture at ND now. Bryant Young, I believe, will be a good coach at ND in the near future, but he is still new and I dont believe ready to take on the a high profile coaching role. I look for Bryant Young to become more and more of a significant contributor in the coming years, the program needs guy this around. Dominating college career, and eventhough injuries, had a good pro career too. Young, Zorich, Holtz...they need as many as these guys around the program now as possible, to breed that winning culture.

Just my 2cents on why superstars(magic, gretz, bird, isaiah, the list goes on and on)dont make good coaches. These players were superstars when they played, they made their respectives games look slow, and easy; they coach with the same philosophy they playd with, so they expect their players to perform to a certain lvl everynight, just as they did as players. As we all know, most of us, are not on the superstar lvl, and therefore could not perform to the lvl that these superstar players-now-turned-coaches expect. In other words, the players they coach are just not as good as they were, and thats when they figure out that coaching is alot harder then just running some guys out there and calling a play.

 

[NDOM]

In my opinion, these changes are just as much preventative for future issues as they are reactionary to some of the current problems. Let's face it, Corwin Brown is going to be a head coach very, very soon. He is not a career coordinator. I have always viewed Tenuta as a fail safe in case Brown gets a HC offer. Tenuta is a very capable coordinator who could take over on short notice. I see this as overlapping insurance for when Brown is lured away. I see him being in South Bend one, maybe two, more years.

The Randy Hart hire is the same thing. He is going to mentor Bryant Young to become DL coach very soon. The changes are very logical to me and really seem to set the groundwork for the coaching staff in much the same way they lay the foundation for players as well. Coach Weis seems to be thinking two or three years down the road for the coaching staff.

Ummm....I'm just going to have to go ahead and concur with this statement. yep.