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NOTRE DAME -- The Notre Dame football coach receives criticism from all directions. Especially, it turns out, from within.
First-year Irish coach Charlie Weis gave himself an "all right" rating Tuesday when asked how he would assess his own performance this season.
"Trust me, what happens when you get to be to the level I'm at now, you're definitely your own biggest critic," Weis said. "You never look at yourself and say, 'I really did well.' The best you'll say is OK. You could call 50 good plays and two bad ones, and you'll just harp on the two bad ones. ... I know you're never going to be perfect, but that's the way you look at it, unfortunately."
Weis gave himself the worst marks for the Michigan State game, a 44-41 overtime home loss. It wasn't the play-calling that Weis regrets -- the Irish posted 594 yards of offense and rallied from a 38-17 second-half deficit to tie the game -- it's that Notre Dame was that far behind in the first place.
Weis was so intent on keeping his team from being distracted by the trappings of its home opener that he may have overmanaged the team that week, leading to the slow start.
"I think that having your team come out the way we did and get behind that much, you really have to place the blame on you. You have to look in the mirror on that one right there," Weis said. "That was a great comeback and all that other stuff, but I would like to think that I would have been able to do a better job not getting the team in that position that we were in."
When asked to describe his rookie head coaching season in one word, Weis chose "educational." He came to Notre Dame with a definite plan for the program, but things haven't gone exactly according to his script.
"With all the planning and all the thought and all the research you do, until you've actually gone through the experiences day by day and week by week and month by month, even with all the foresight that you try to have, there are things that just come up that you just have to go through on-the-job training," he said.
That's why he can only say he's pleased -- not satisfied -- with the season thus far. Many people didn't expect Notre Dame to be 8-2 and within one win of a Bowl Championship Series berth, but Weis is still upset the Irish aren't vying for a berth in the national championship game.
With the Irish in their second year running Weis' system and quarterback Brady Quinn returning next season, another 8-2 mark might not placate Notre Dame fans.
Source: eTruth.com
First-year Irish coach Charlie Weis gave himself an "all right" rating Tuesday when asked how he would assess his own performance this season.
"Trust me, what happens when you get to be to the level I'm at now, you're definitely your own biggest critic," Weis said. "You never look at yourself and say, 'I really did well.' The best you'll say is OK. You could call 50 good plays and two bad ones, and you'll just harp on the two bad ones. ... I know you're never going to be perfect, but that's the way you look at it, unfortunately."
Weis gave himself the worst marks for the Michigan State game, a 44-41 overtime home loss. It wasn't the play-calling that Weis regrets -- the Irish posted 594 yards of offense and rallied from a 38-17 second-half deficit to tie the game -- it's that Notre Dame was that far behind in the first place.
Weis was so intent on keeping his team from being distracted by the trappings of its home opener that he may have overmanaged the team that week, leading to the slow start.
"I think that having your team come out the way we did and get behind that much, you really have to place the blame on you. You have to look in the mirror on that one right there," Weis said. "That was a great comeback and all that other stuff, but I would like to think that I would have been able to do a better job not getting the team in that position that we were in."
When asked to describe his rookie head coaching season in one word, Weis chose "educational." He came to Notre Dame with a definite plan for the program, but things haven't gone exactly according to his script.
"With all the planning and all the thought and all the research you do, until you've actually gone through the experiences day by day and week by week and month by month, even with all the foresight that you try to have, there are things that just come up that you just have to go through on-the-job training," he said.
That's why he can only say he's pleased -- not satisfied -- with the season thus far. Many people didn't expect Notre Dame to be 8-2 and within one win of a Bowl Championship Series berth, but Weis is still upset the Irish aren't vying for a berth in the national championship game.
With the Irish in their second year running Weis' system and quarterback Brady Quinn returning next season, another 8-2 mark might not placate Notre Dame fans.
Source: eTruth.com
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