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Who Will be the Next Coach at Notre Dame

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Nov 21, 2009.

  1. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    Dan O. --

    I get the feeling Harbaugh wants to be an NFL head coach, like his brother, and that anything else is a step below.
     
  2. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Yeah, eventually San Diego will get tired of Norv Turner and Harbaugh will wind up there.
     
  3. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    As a Chargers fan and a Cal fan, I would like that.
     
  4. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    I expect we'll see a press conference in South Bend next Wednesday. They'll start talking in earnest with Kelly on Sunday, hash out a deal on Monday, finalize it on Tuesday and announce the next day.
     
  5. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    I think ND would LOVE a Saban/Schembechler/Woody Hayes/Bobby Knight type, a my-way-or-the-highway disciplinarian -- as long as he won, won fast and won big.

    ND is built on a huge sense of moral superiority and sanctimoniousness -- the coach giving the media and everyday fans the back of his hand plays into that. They were fine with Weis until he went 3-9.
     
  6. finishthehat

    finishthehat Active Member

    Actually, there was a pretty strong undercurrent of grumbling about Weis' (alleged) high-handed treatment of "the little people" around campus and South Bend even before they collapsed. It got overshadowed by the wins, but it was there.
     
  7. Fans loved it, though. They loved to live vicariously through his tough-guy with the media and blue ribbon alumni act. Fans love when a winning football coach is a dick because they project moral superiority onto him.
     
  8. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Of course, any fanbase anywhere loves a guy who wins fast and wins big.

    Weis's big mistake was that while his first two seasons were reasonably successful in overall W-L record (9-3 and 10-3), he capped both of them off with thunderous bowl-game losses, raising the sneaking suspicion the records were built on smoke and mirrors, so when the whole shebang went in the shitter in Year 3, the jackals were ready to pounce. Every "little guy," media mouthpiece and alumni wheeler-dealer Weis had flipped off for two years was ready to stick in the knife.

    Once he dropped the monster turd in 2007, he was gonna need a big year -- 10+ wins capped off by a bowl win -- to dispel the "fraud" aura. Records of 7-6 and 6-6 weren't gonna get it.
     
  9. Layman

    Layman Well-Known Member

    Charlie also misjudged....DEEPLY...who was & wasn't "little people" amongst the ND community. Lots of folks couldn't wait to get their shots in, once things went south. Burned more important bridges, than he cared to understand, from a very early point.
     
  10. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Fanhouse's John Walters writes that Notre Dame is likely to skip a bowl, although he sandbags the hell out of it in the lede:

    http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2009/12/03/notre-dame-unlikely-to-play-in-bowl/
     
  11. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    This repeated meme that ND is going to leave the bowl decision up to the players is nuts. You don't leave a million-dollar decision up to a bunch of 22-year-olds who may be in a momentary hissy fit over the loss of their beloved Uncle Charley.

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  12. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    Turner has enormous lasting power, for whatever reason. And his team is hot, for a change.
     
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