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Politics : Welcome to Slider's Dugout -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (20235)	12/1/2009 1:45:56 PM
From: SliderOnTheBlack	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50383

re: ["But don't shed any tears for Charlie, as his buyout is reportedly going to be between $12 and $18 million" Holy ghost of Knute Rockne!] --------------- And we thought the bankers were over paid. It's amazing what coaches make today. Once they get the job, they're pretty much set for life financially. The only problem I have with firing Weiss and not giving him one more year to put it all together, is they knew they were hiring an offensive coordinator and not a head coach. The guy literally had to learn on the job, how to be a head coach, in addition to making the transition from the NFL to college football. 6-6 is not acceptable given the talent they had, but they were literally in every game, and Weiss fixed the number one problem from last year - the offensive line. The problem this year was defense. He hired John Tenuta from Georgia Tech who IS a top defensive coach, but kept Corwin Brown on as the defensive coordinator and Asst. Head Coach. They really never gave Tenuta complete control. That may have been a change that Weiss could have sold the administration on. If Jimmy Clausen and Golden Tate decided to come back, and they do with the defense what they did with the offensive line... they'd be where they need to be in 2010. And they got this Freshman Manti T'eo on defense, who is going to be a legend. Picture Chris Zorich as a linebacker. I'm mad as hell at Weiss for going from 6-2 to 6-6, when 9-3 seemed a worse case scenario. But they might have been one year away from putting it all together and being in the hunt for the national title. And now with a coaching change they may loose their two best players to the NFL draft. If they get Stoops, at least they'll find out if it's a Notre Dame problem, or a coaching problem, once and for all (and it may be a Notre Dame problem). And Charles... I hear you on the point spreads, betting against Notre Dame at home when a favorite was a better trade than going long SLW in the $2's <vbg>. I very much liked Charlie Weiss and was hoping he would be given one more year. But, I also understand that losing the last 4 in a row with the talent they have on offense, is a tough pill to swallow. Rumors for the last year, or so, were that Urban Meyer would take the job once his children were all in college, and out of high school. I've never followed up on their ages, but that was the talk... I like Bob Stoops and he brings the defensive gravitas that the program needs. Brian Kelly from Cinci comes highly endorsed, and he and Stoops are the only names I'm hearing locally fwiw. There's some cRaZy money numbers being talked about for Stoops... numbers like the largest contract ever in college football history. That would be mighty hard to turn down. We shall see. If Clausen & Tate leave for the NFL, could be an ugly transition year next year. I'l love to see those two one more year... I think they'd erase all the records and become "the" greatest QB/Receiver combo in ND history waking up the echo's of Hanratty & Seymour, Theisman & Gatewood, and then we could have the debate on who was the greatest ND QB of all time, Joe Montana, Brady Quinn, or Jimmy Classen. If only... SOTB SOTB