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it is indeed a test of faith....the worst test of faith in how many glorious years of football at notre dame.......but as it written "what no the odds be great or small"
 
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I just read the NBC piece...Back to basics - College FB - NBCSports.com

I have to tell you. I feel a little better. It really can't get any worse than it is right now. Charlie is learning how to coach KIDS. Yeah he has a pro-pedigree and he has some rings as an o-coordinator but the guy is learning how to deal with younger kids that have no experience. He hasn't dealt with younger kids in close to 20 years.

Let's see what happens these up coming games. Hopefully they can build some confidence this week and do their best. Really in football terms, it can't get any worse.
 
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Sureal said:
I just read the NBC piece...Back to basics - College FB - NBCSports.com

I have to tell you. I feel a little better. It really can't get any worse than it is right now. Charlie is learning how to coach KIDS. Yeah he has a pro-pedigree and he has some rings as an o-coordinator but the guy is learning how to deal with younger kids that have no experience. He hasn't dealt with younger kids in close to 30 years.

Let's see what happens these up coming games. Hopefully they can build some confidence this week and do their best. Really in football terms, it can't get any worse.
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You're right, it is very good. Here's my favorite line:

At some point this afternoon, during some play that we are unable to pinpoint (but likely it involved the Irish either accruing negative yardage on offense or failing to wrap up Michigan's Mike Hart on defense), Weis had an epiphany. At some moment Weis realized that, really, for the first time since he was the head coach at Franklin Township (N.J.) High School in 1989, he's coaching kids.

Weis steered pros with the New England Patriots and was granted a gift greater than any signing bonus in being handed a battle-worn Brady Quinn upon his arrival here in late 2004. It's not that anyone observing the Irish -- least of all Weis -- failed to foresee how unformed the 2007 Irish would be. It's that Weis failed to adapt how he would coach them.

"It came as a surprise," Weis said of Demetrius Jones' defection after the game, but he might as well have been speaking about the first 15 days of the Irish season. Weis invested so much time into "multiple personnel packages" and grooming his next quarterback that he neglected to instill his immature squad with confidence -- with the most basic building blocks. No one ever writes a sentence before they learn the alphabet.
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Also this, from the conclusion:

Put on the housecoat, Martha; the honeymoon is definitely over. Charlie Weis understands that this is no longer about a BCS bowl berth. Or even a bowl berth. Weis now finds himself in a mortal struggle for the soul of his team, for his future in South Bend, and for the long-term health of this program in the next five seasons. Never mind the question of, if it continues going south, whether or not he'll ever again attend another class reunion.

Weis took the best first step possible today. He admitted his mistakes and decided to start again from scratch. When the God of the Old Testament did this, he flooded the earth and had one of his few faithful servants gather animals two by two. At Notre Dame, they'll simply destroy the Michigan game tape and perhaps spend a little more time on run-blocking.
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This a great thread. All those calling for Weis's head are not true fans, just fair weather ones. it makes me sick. stick with the irish through the ups and downs. cant wait for 330 on saturday!
 
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A number of major programs have suffered lately. Nebraska, Alabama, Miami and FSU for example. Just 7 years ago, USC was finshing up an amazing run of mediocrity in the PAC 10. They finished somewhere around .500 throughout most of the 90s and were bottom feeders in the PAC 10. Everyone seems to have forgotten about all of that. They turned their program around and so will ND. When that happens, just like with USC, everyone will forget what we are going through right now. Except for those of us who are suffering through this. I can't wait to see the transformation and it will make it even sweeter because we were here when it was painful to be a fan. So, yes, I still believe.
 
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We're just thinning out the herd of band-wagon jumpers that have gotten on the past two years. I agree that it's nice to see some positive posts, and we'll be back more sooner than later.
GO IRISH!
 
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Rah! Rah! Rah!
Up! Notre Dame men answer the cry
Gathering foemen fling to the sky
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Brave hosts advancing challenging your name
March to the battle, Notre Dame!

Chorus:
And when the Irish backs go marching by
The cheering thousands shout their battle cry:
For Notre Dame men are marching into the game,
Fighting the fight for you, Notre Dame
And when the Irish line goes smashing through
They'll sweep the foemen's ranks away;
When Notre Dame men fight for Gold and Blue,
Then Notre Dame men will win the day.
 
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damn...ndflife what a great start to the best thread i've read here in a long time...sure, we're all pissed at having to rebuild (thanks again ty) but charlie's in charge now and if your doubting him try taking a look at the recruiting the last couple of years...we're not going after players being recruited by western michigan, stanford, pitt, and others on that level, we are now fighting (and winning) against the "big boys" (ie florida, lsu, ohio state, usc and the like). i sat and watched the game today with my eight-year-old son (dressed in his nd attire) and thought about how he would be a dommer as well, though i've told him he could go to any shcool in the country except michigan state...i would at that point lose a son...i'vs had too many beers and i'm rambling but we as fans have to stand strong and proud and also "circle the wagons" because we're likely going to be 0-8 before we start to show signs of the good times that will surely come...someday we will be calling cw Pope Charles I love you guys!
 
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