Ouch Pat Forde on Notre Dame and Charlie Weis

Russ Smith

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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=3013932&sportCat=ncf

Just torches them a bit over the top and of course he had to point out Willingham was the first black coach they'd had which is basically thrown in there to imply racism without actually claiming it which was BS.

But it's an interesting read, if the Irish go 3-7 the next 10 games they will have an identical record under Weis as they did under Willingham, looking at the schedule 3-7 is quite possible.

One fascinating stat, of the 856 points ND has scored under Weis, 19 have been scored by players he recruited, 837 by Willingham recruits. One offensive TD in 27 games by a Weis recruit. They've lost 4 consecutive games by 20 or more points, last time an ND team did that was never.

he clearly has an agenda and goes over the top but there's a lot of interesting stats in the piece.
 

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It's alright, they'll just throw Ty Willingham under the bus. Even though Ty's struggles in Years 2 and 3 had all to do with him and nothing to do with Bob Davie.
 

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It's alright, they'll just throw Ty Willingham under the bus. Even though Ty's struggles in Years 2 and 3 had all to do with him and nothing to do with Bob Davie.

Bob Davie = good offensive coach, horrible head coach. He's the real culprit there. Not that I care an iota about the state of Notre Dame football.
 

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Bob Davie = good offensive coach, horrible head coach. He's the real culprit there. Not that I care an iota about the state of Notre Dame football.

Bob Davie was a defensive coach his entire career. He built the famous "Wrecking Crew" defenses at A&M.
 

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they gave Charlie Weis a lifetime contract, right... after a loss to USC, right? Good call on that one ND.

Sheesh - anyone realize it's been almost 20 years since ND was actually relevant?
 
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