NSD tomorrow - how's your team doing?

[dougdescenzo]

First, I just want to throw out there that I am not backing BB because I am a Pats fan, I am a die-hard Bears fan. I just respect the Parcells tree of coaches more than any other because of their work ethic and what they expect their players to be off the field. To try to defend your points...

 

1. Yes, the NFL insists on being accurate, however they only offer broad explanations of a player's ability to play that Sunday. The NFL makes you file the report that Friday correct? Isn't Tom Brady "probable" for a game that Sunday? If you were to ask me what my status would be for my job this Friday I would have to say "probable". And a guy with a shredded knee would be literally "doubtful" for the game. The flaw is in the NFL injury reports not the way Belicheck (and alot of other coaches although not to his extent) utilizes them to his advantage.

 

2. I liken this to a baseball pitching coach saying "Angel Hernandez is behind the plate, try and get a couple inches off the outside corner because he has a wide zone". He probably saw during one of his 20 hour work days that the refs that were working that days game rarely make the illegal contact call. Seeing this and trying to utilize it is just good coaching. Is Livan Hernandez taking advantage of Eric Gregg's mile-wide strike zone cutting corners to win a game?

 

3. I don't remember the Marvin Harrison thing happening but I will take your word for it. This would be a classless thing and going beyond cutting corners to win a game. (The fact that the weakling Harrison was going to make a tackle is neither here nor there)

[wolf stansson]

Anyone hear about Charlie Weiss' comments on ESPN today after two major guys decommitted? He said he asked if the word "committment" meant anything?

 

Of course in the next breath he talked about landing Brian Smith, a 4 star linebacker from Kansas who has been committed to Iowa for months. Eric Johnson (Iowa ass't) was on the radio saying that in the last two weeks they've swooped in on 4 of Iowa's recruits. Broderick Binns a DE commit from Minnesota told the staff that a Notre Dame assistant told Binns, "the word committment means nothing".

 

I don't think anyone is shedding any tears that Charlie lost a couple today. There was another story about him handing a ring to a coach and having him walk it across the room for a junior to see during the no-contact period.

 

what a d-bag. That sounds awfully hollow after ND just took two recruits who had previously committed to Iowa and Louisville.

Different situations. The Iowa recruit consisted pretty much of ND offering and him changing his mind due to the offer. The Louisville recruit was a coaching change, i.e. the coaching change that cost ND a bunch of recruits in 2004-05.

 

However, ND's far from innocent of this. There's a Washington Post article today in which former QB coach Peter Vaas was pursuing Arrelious Benn pretty aggressively after he was committed to Illinois.

 

Funny how it's almost always a different situation when ND is involved.

Smith had been committed for almost 6 months and taken multiple visits. He helped recruit others to Iowa.

 

The point is Charlie puts on a face for the cameras that he's all about committment and being honorable about them. He's upset that someone would back out of a committment to him. Yet he has no dilemna's when it comes to trying to snatch away commits from other schools, the very week before signing day.

 

What a man of principle.

People with morals get burned in college football recruiting. And thanks for reading the rest of my post in bold before jumping right to the stupid attack conclusion.

 

Exhibit 1: Karl Dorrell :x

 

Weiss also had assistants camped outside Martez Wilson's house until he actually signed.

[gflore34]

I love what Zook and Illini have done this recruiting season, no longer will the ND's, U of M's and OSU's of the world come to Illinois and pick up its best players like they're shopping. They know it hence, all the accusations and hostility, now if only Bruce Weber would follow suit.

[CubColtPacer]

First, I just want to throw out there that I am not backing BB because I am a Pats fan, I am a die-hard Bears fan. I just respect the Parcells tree of coaches more than any other because of their work ethic and what they expect their players to be off the field. To try to defend your points...

 

1. Yes, the NFL insists on being accurate, however they only offer broad explanations of a player's ability to play that Sunday. The NFL makes you file the report that Friday correct? Isn't Tom Brady "probable" for a game that Sunday? If you were to ask me what my status would be for my job this Friday I would have to say "probable". And a guy with a shredded knee would be literally "doubtful" for the game. The flaw is in the NFL injury reports not the way Belicheck (and alot of other coaches although not to his extent) utilizes them to his advantage.

 

 

They make you file the report on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Under your example, everybody would be probable-people are only supposed to be on the injury report if they actually have some sort of injury right then. Questionable means they are supposed to be 50/50 to play that Sunday-for BB to put Harrison as questionable when he should put him as out instead basically feeds misinformation to the opponent, which is precisely why the NFL cracked down on injury reports in the first place.

[TruffleShuffle]

Second, it is pretty well known that BB instructs his players to go as far as they can as much as the refs will allow that day, even if it's technically against the rules. For example, the Patriots-Colts game of 2003 showed that BB's game plan was to keep committing penalties on the Colts receivers down the field and to challenge the referees to keep calling it on the Patriots. When they did not in that game, their team kept doing it, and would have continued to that degree if the NFL didn't make sure the referees enforced the rule after the season.

 

I call that smart coaching. That's why the Devils clutched and grabbed their way to three Stanley Cup titles. If the game isn't being called the way it's supposed to be called, you use that to your advantage. I'm not saying you play dirty and try to hurt other people, but if it involves committing pass interference that the refs aren't calling - that's what you should do.

[CubColtPacer]

Second, it is pretty well known that BB instructs his players to go as far as they can as much as the refs will allow that day, even if it's technically against the rules. For example, the Patriots-Colts game of 2003 showed that BB's game plan was to keep committing penalties on the Colts receivers down the field and to challenge the referees to keep calling it on the Patriots. When they did not in that game, their team kept doing it, and would have continued to that degree if the NFL didn't make sure the referees enforced the rule after the season.

 

I call that smart coaching. That's why the Devils clutched and grabbed their way to three Stanley Cup titles. If the game isn't being called the way it's supposed to be called, you use that to your advantage. I'm not saying you play dirty and try to hurt other people, but if it involves committing pass interference that the refs aren't calling - that's what you should do.

 

I never said it wasn't smart coaching, but can you imagine coaches like Dungy or any of his tree telling their players to purposely break the rules because the refs aren't calling it? That was my original point-BB is a great coach who wins a great amount of the time, just like Weis. To do that, they are willing to cut a few corners from time to time, including stretching the rules as far as they can go from time to time. Based on what they do on the field occasionally and even more what they have done off the field (BB especially is famous for his violations of "class" behavior), I don't really like either of the men themselves.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I thought his name was Dascenzo.

[illiniguy]

Anyone hear about Charlie Weiss' comments on ESPN today after two major guys decommitted? He said he asked if the word "committment" meant anything?

 

Of course in the next breath he talked about landing Brian Smith, a 4 star linebacker from Kansas who has been committed to Iowa for months. Eric Johnson (Iowa ass't) was on the radio saying that in the last two weeks they've swooped in on 4 of Iowa's recruits. Broderick Binns a DE commit from Minnesota told the staff that a Notre Dame assistant told Binns, "the word committment means nothing".

 

I don't think anyone is shedding any tears that Charlie lost a couple today. There was another story about him handing a ring to a coach and having him walk it across the room for a junior to see during the no-contact period.

 

what a d-bag. That sounds awfully hollow after ND just took two recruits who had previously committed to Iowa and Louisville.

Different situations. The Iowa recruit consisted pretty much of ND offering and him changing his mind due to the offer. The Louisville recruit was a coaching change, i.e. the coaching change that cost ND a bunch of recruits in 2004-05.

 

However, ND's far from innocent of this. There's a Washington Post article today in which former QB coach Peter Vaas was pursuing Arrelious Benn pretty aggressively after he was committed to Illinois.

 

Funny how it's almost always a different situation when ND is involved.

Smith had been committed for almost 6 months and taken multiple visits. He helped recruit others to Iowa.

 

The point is Charlie puts on a face for the cameras that he's all about committment and being honorable about them. He's upset that someone would back out of a committment to him. Yet he has no dilemna's when it comes to trying to snatch away commits from other schools, the very week before signing day.

 

What a man of principle.

 

I don't think many if any in the ND fanbase would consider Weis a "true man of principle". He is from the Belicheck school, that is for sure-and unfortunately, that means they cut certain corners to win. I think he is a great coach, but I'm not sure I like the man.

Oh no, what did they do hire a bunch of guys as assistant coaches who are friends with a previously committed to another school's recruit? Now that would be a corner cut.

[illiniguy]

Anyone hear about Charlie Weiss' comments on ESPN today after two major guys decommitted? He said he asked if the word "committment" meant anything?

 

Of course in the next breath he talked about landing Brian Smith, a 4 star linebacker from Kansas who has been committed to Iowa for months. Eric Johnson (Iowa ass't) was on the radio saying that in the last two weeks they've swooped in on 4 of Iowa's recruits. Broderick Binns a DE commit from Minnesota told the staff that a Notre Dame assistant told Binns, "the word committment means nothing".

 

I don't think anyone is shedding any tears that Charlie lost a couple today. There was another story about him handing a ring to a coach and having him walk it across the room for a junior to see during the no-contact period.

 

what a d-bag. That sounds awfully hollow after ND just took two recruits who had previously committed to Iowa and Louisville.

Different situations. The Iowa recruit consisted pretty much of ND offering and him changing his mind due to the offer. The Louisville recruit was a coaching change, i.e. the coaching change that cost ND a bunch of recruits in 2004-05.

 

However, ND's far from innocent of this. There's a Washington Post article today in which former QB coach Peter Vaas was pursuing Arrelious Benn pretty aggressively after he was committed to Illinois.

 

Funny how it's almost always a different situation when ND is involved.

Smith had been committed for almost 6 months and taken multiple visits. He helped recruit others to Iowa.

 

The point is Charlie puts on a face for the cameras that he's all about committment and being honorable about them. He's upset that someone would back out of a committment to him. Yet he has no dilemna's when it comes to trying to snatch away commits from other schools, the very week before signing day.

 

What a man of principle.

 

I don't think many if any in the ND fanbase would consider Weis a "true man of principle". He is from the Belicheck school, that is for sure-and unfortunately, that means they cut certain corners to win. I think he is a great coach, but I'm not sure I like the man.

Oh no, what did they do hire a bunch of guys as assistant coaches who are friends with a previously committed to another school's recruit? Now that would be a corner cut.

[TruffleShuffle]

I never said it wasn't smart coaching, but can you imagine coaches like Dungy or any of his tree telling their players to purposely break the rules because the refs aren't calling it?

 

Yes, I can imagine that. I find it hard to believe that any coach at a level as competitive as the NFL wouldn't notice the way a game is being called, and try to use it to their advantage. If your opponent is doing that and you're not, they get a big edge on you. I don't think there's anything unethical about pointing this out to your players.

[CubColtPacer]

Anyone hear about Charlie Weiss' comments on ESPN today after two major guys decommitted? He said he asked if the word "committment" meant anything?

 

Of course in the next breath he talked about landing Brian Smith, a 4 star linebacker from Kansas who has been committed to Iowa for months. Eric Johnson (Iowa ass't) was on the radio saying that in the last two weeks they've swooped in on 4 of Iowa's recruits. Broderick Binns a DE commit from Minnesota told the staff that a Notre Dame assistant told Binns, "the word committment means nothing".

 

I don't think anyone is shedding any tears that Charlie lost a couple today. There was another story about him handing a ring to a coach and having him walk it across the room for a junior to see during the no-contact period.

 

what a d-bag. That sounds awfully hollow after ND just took two recruits who had previously committed to Iowa and Louisville.

Different situations. The Iowa recruit consisted pretty much of ND offering and him changing his mind due to the offer. The Louisville recruit was a coaching change, i.e. the coaching change that cost ND a bunch of recruits in 2004-05.

 

However, ND's far from innocent of this. There's a Washington Post article today in which former QB coach Peter Vaas was pursuing Arrelious Benn pretty aggressively after he was committed to Illinois.

 

Funny how it's almost always a different situation when ND is involved.

Smith had been committed for almost 6 months and taken multiple visits. He helped recruit others to Iowa.

 

The point is Charlie puts on a face for the cameras that he's all about committment and being honorable about them. He's upset that someone would back out of a committment to him. Yet he has no dilemna's when it comes to trying to snatch away commits from other schools, the very week before signing day.

 

What a man of principle.

 

I don't think many if any in the ND fanbase would consider Weis a "true man of principle". He is from the Belicheck school, that is for sure-and unfortunately, that means they cut certain corners to win. I think he is a great coach, but I'm not sure I like the man.

Oh no, what did they do hire a bunch of guys as assistant coaches who are friends with a previously committed to another school's recruit? Now that would be a corner cut.

 

You mean hiring a qualified assistant who happens to know the primary area to recruit very well, and so would be a big help to the program's stated desire (and the fanbase's biggest wish) to get in-state recruiting back to what it used to be? I was very happy with the hire, and didn't even know he was friends with that particular recruit until weeks later.

[adamb0719]

Anyone hear about Charlie Weiss' comments on ESPN today after two major guys decommitted? He said he asked if the word "committment" meant anything?

 

Of course in the next breath he talked about landing Brian Smith, a 4 star linebacker from Kansas who has been committed to Iowa for months. Eric Johnson (Iowa ass't) was on the radio saying that in the last two weeks they've swooped in on 4 of Iowa's recruits. Broderick Binns a DE commit from Minnesota told the staff that a Notre Dame assistant told Binns, "the word committment means nothing".

 

I don't think anyone is shedding any tears that Charlie lost a couple today. There was another story about him handing a ring to a coach and having him walk it across the room for a junior to see during the no-contact period.

 

what a d-bag. That sounds awfully hollow after ND just took two recruits who had previously committed to Iowa and Louisville.

Different situations. The Iowa recruit consisted pretty much of ND offering and him changing his mind due to the offer. The Louisville recruit was a coaching change, i.e. the coaching change that cost ND a bunch of recruits in 2004-05.

 

However, ND's far from innocent of this. There's a Washington Post article today in which former QB coach Peter Vaas was pursuing Arrelious Benn pretty aggressively after he was committed to Illinois.

 

Funny how it's almost always a different situation when ND is involved.

Smith had been committed for almost 6 months and taken multiple visits. He helped recruit others to Iowa.

 

The point is Charlie puts on a face for the cameras that he's all about committment and being honorable about them. He's upset that someone would back out of a committment to him. Yet he has no dilemna's when it comes to trying to snatch away commits from other schools, the very week before signing day.

 

What a man of principle.

 

I don't think many if any in the ND fanbase would consider Weis a "true man of principle". He is from the Belicheck school, that is for sure-and unfortunately, that means they cut certain corners to win. I think he is a great coach, but I'm not sure I like the man.

Oh no, what did they do hire a bunch of guys as assistant coaches who are friends with a previously committed to another school's recruit? Now that would be a corner cut.

 

You mean hiring a qualified assistant who happens to know the primary area to recruit very well, and so would be a big help to the program's stated desire (and the fanbase's biggest wish) to get in-state recruiting back to what it used to be? I was very happy with the hire, and didn't even know he was friends with that particular recruit until weeks later.

 

I just thought I would mention that I read yesterday that Vaas is being hired by UNC.

[illiniguy]

Anyone hear about Charlie Weiss' comments on ESPN today after two major guys decommitted? He said he asked if the word "committment" meant anything?

 

Of course in the next breath he talked about landing Brian Smith, a 4 star linebacker from Kansas who has been committed to Iowa for months. Eric Johnson (Iowa ass't) was on the radio saying that in the last two weeks they've swooped in on 4 of Iowa's recruits. Broderick Binns a DE commit from Minnesota told the staff that a Notre Dame assistant told Binns, "the word committment means nothing".

 

I don't think anyone is shedding any tears that Charlie lost a couple today. There was another story about him handing a ring to a coach and having him walk it across the room for a junior to see during the no-contact period.

 

what a d-bag. That sounds awfully hollow after ND just took two recruits who had previously committed to Iowa and Louisville.

Different situations. The Iowa recruit consisted pretty much of ND offering and him changing his mind due to the offer. The Louisville recruit was a coaching change, i.e. the coaching change that cost ND a bunch of recruits in 2004-05.

 

However, ND's far from innocent of this. There's a Washington Post article today in which former QB coach Peter Vaas was pursuing Arrelious Benn pretty aggressively after he was committed to Illinois.

 

Funny how it's almost always a different situation when ND is involved.

Smith had been committed for almost 6 months and taken multiple visits. He helped recruit others to Iowa.

 

The point is Charlie puts on a face for the cameras that he's all about committment and being honorable about them. He's upset that someone would back out of a committment to him. Yet he has no dilemna's when it comes to trying to snatch away commits from other schools, the very week before signing day.

 

What a man of principle.

 

I don't think many if any in the ND fanbase would consider Weis a "true man of principle". He is from the Belicheck school, that is for sure-and unfortunately, that means they cut certain corners to win. I think he is a great coach, but I'm not sure I like the man.

Oh no, what did they do hire a bunch of guys as assistant coaches who are friends with a previously committed to another school's recruit? Now that would be a corner cut.

 

You mean hiring a qualified assistant who happens to know the primary area to recruit very well, and so would be a big help to the program's stated desire (and the fanbase's biggest wish) to get in-state recruiting back to what it used to be? I was very happy with the hire, and didn't even know he was friends with that particular recruit until weeks later.

Oh can't you read? I mean it was all over the news that he was best friends with IDKWTI's daddy? All of these coaches cut corners. Some are just better at it. I wish it were a level playing field.

[CubColtPacer]

Anyone hear about Charlie Weiss' comments on ESPN today after two major guys decommitted? He said he asked if the word "committment" meant anything?

 

Of course in the next breath he talked about landing Brian Smith, a 4 star linebacker from Kansas who has been committed to Iowa for months. Eric Johnson (Iowa ass't) was on the radio saying that in the last two weeks they've swooped in on 4 of Iowa's recruits. Broderick Binns a DE commit from Minnesota told the staff that a Notre Dame assistant told Binns, "the word committment means nothing".

 

I don't think anyone is shedding any tears that Charlie lost a couple today. There was another story about him handing a ring to a coach and having him walk it across the room for a junior to see during the no-contact period.

 

what a d-bag. That sounds awfully hollow after ND just took two recruits who had previously committed to Iowa and Louisville.

Different situations. The Iowa recruit consisted pretty much of ND offering and him changing his mind due to the offer. The Louisville recruit was a coaching change, i.e. the coaching change that cost ND a bunch of recruits in 2004-05.

 

However, ND's far from innocent of this. There's a Washington Post article today in which former QB coach Peter Vaas was pursuing Arrelious Benn pretty aggressively after he was committed to Illinois.

 

Funny how it's almost always a different situation when ND is involved.

Smith had been committed for almost 6 months and taken multiple visits. He helped recruit others to Iowa.

 

The point is Charlie puts on a face for the cameras that he's all about committment and being honorable about them. He's upset that someone would back out of a committment to him. Yet he has no dilemna's when it comes to trying to snatch away commits from other schools, the very week before signing day.

 

What a man of principle.

 

I don't think many if any in the ND fanbase would consider Weis a "true man of principle". He is from the Belicheck school, that is for sure-and unfortunately, that means they cut certain corners to win. I think he is a great coach, but I'm not sure I like the man.

Oh no, what did they do hire a bunch of guys as assistant coaches who are friends with a previously committed to another school's recruit? Now that would be a corner cut.

 

You mean hiring a qualified assistant who happens to know the primary area to recruit very well, and so would be a big help to the program's stated desire (and the fanbase's biggest wish) to get in-state recruiting back to what it used to be? I was very happy with the hire, and didn't even know he was friends with that particular recruit until weeks later.

Oh can't you read? I mean it was all over the news that he was best friends with IDKWTI's daddy? All of these coaches cut corners. Some are just better at it. I wish it were a level playing field.

 

Yes, I can read-it probably just wasn't reported on the immediate hiring news, and being an Illinois fan, you didn't pay attention to an Indiana assistant coach being hired (why should you?) until the friendship came out.

[illiniguy]

Anyone hear about Charlie Weiss' comments on ESPN today after two major guys decommitted? He said he asked if the word "committment" meant anything?

 

Of course in the next breath he talked about landing Brian Smith, a 4 star linebacker from Kansas who has been committed to Iowa for months. Eric Johnson (Iowa ass't) was on the radio saying that in the last two weeks they've swooped in on 4 of Iowa's recruits. Broderick Binns a DE commit from Minnesota told the staff that a Notre Dame assistant told Binns, "the word committment means nothing".

 

I don't think anyone is shedding any tears that Charlie lost a couple today. There was another story about him handing a ring to a coach and having him walk it across the room for a junior to see during the no-contact period.

 

what a d-bag. That sounds awfully hollow after ND just took two recruits who had previously committed to Iowa and Louisville.

Different situations. The Iowa recruit consisted pretty much of ND offering and him changing his mind due to the offer. The Louisville recruit was a coaching change, i.e. the coaching change that cost ND a bunch of recruits in 2004-05.

 

However, ND's far from innocent of this. There's a Washington Post article today in which former QB coach Peter Vaas was pursuing Arrelious Benn pretty aggressively after he was committed to Illinois.

 

Funny how it's almost always a different situation when ND is involved.

Smith had been committed for almost 6 months and taken multiple visits. He helped recruit others to Iowa.

 

The point is Charlie puts on a face for the cameras that he's all about committment and being honorable about them. He's upset that someone would back out of a committment to him. Yet he has no dilemna's when it comes to trying to snatch away commits from other schools, the very week before signing day.

 

What a man of principle.

 

I don't think many if any in the ND fanbase would consider Weis a "true man of principle". He is from the Belicheck school, that is for sure-and unfortunately, that means they cut certain corners to win. I think he is a great coach, but I'm not sure I like the man.

Oh no, what did they do hire a bunch of guys as assistant coaches who are friends with a previously committed to another school's recruit? Now that would be a corner cut.

 

You mean hiring a qualified assistant who happens to know the primary area to recruit very well, and so would be a big help to the program's stated desire (and the fanbase's biggest wish) to get in-state recruiting back to what it used to be? I was very happy with the hire, and didn't even know he was friends with that particular recruit until weeks later.

Oh can't you read? I mean it was all over the news that he was best friends with IDKWTI's daddy? All of these coaches cut corners. Some are just better at it. I wish it were a level playing field.

 

Yes, I can read-it probably just wasn't reported on the immediate hiring news, and being an Illinois fan, you didn't pay attention to an Indiana assistant coach being hired (why should you?) until the friendship came out.

Touche, but I read about it on Rivals in one of their reports. Even they knew exactly what was going on.

[Soul]

I love what Zook and Illini have done this recruiting season, no longer will the ND's, U of M's and OSU's of the world come to Illinois and pick up its best players like they're shopping. They know it hence, all the accusations and hostility, now if only Bruce Weber would follow suit.

 

Alot of the so-called power elite of NCAA football are steaming over Illinois. What's their deal? A new program pulls an old, tradition-rich school out of the doldrums after many, many years of incompetence.

 

That's the very definition of U of M, ND, Miami, FSU ---- all these schools did the very same thing. At one point or another, nearly every school was terrible

[CuseCubFan69]

I always thought of Weiss as a Rick Majaris type guy but that's what I get for steriotyping. He's a good coach but he seems like a jerk and I've waited to say this until he pushed me over the limit.

 

I'm happy with Syracuse's effort recruiting and I expect it to get better from here but they have to start winning games. Playing 2 Big 10 teams this year should help us add to the win column.

[Chocolate Milk]

Playing 2 Big 10 teams this year should help us add to the win column.

 

Who are you playing?

[CubColtPacer]

Playing 2 Big 10 teams this year should help us add to the win column.

 

Who are you playing?

 

Well, I'll answer for Cuse here-they play Illinois and Iowa-Illinois at home and Iowa on the road.

[CuseCubFan69]

Playing 2 Big 10 teams this year should help us add to the win column.

 

Who are you playing?

 

Well, I'll answer for Cuse here-they play Illinois and Iowa-Illinois at home and Iowa on the road.

 

Yep, 2 easy ones! :wink:

[Andy]

I thought his name was Dascenzo.

Well, I thought his name was Weis, but apparently it has two S's in it. (Not directed at you, I see it all the time and it drives me nuts.)

 

I always thought of Weiss as a Rick Majaris type guy but that's what I get for steriotyping. He's a good coach but he seems like a jerk and I've waited to say this until he pushed me over the limit.

Charlie Weis is an essentially calculated man. If he wants to be portrayed as a jerk, he'll act like a jerk. If he wants to be portrayed as a dedicated family man, he'll tell a few stories about his wife and kids. If he wants to be portrayed as a smart-ass, he'll fire off a few remarks. I enjoy every minute of it. Give me a jerk any day over a nice guy who can't get it done such as our previous two coaches.

[CuseCubFan69]

I thought his name was Dascenzo.

Well, I thought his name was Weis, but apparently it has two S's in it. (Not directed at you, I see it all the time and it drives me nuts.)

 

I always thought of Weiss as a Rick Majaris type guy but that's what I get for steriotyping. He's a good coach but he seems like a jerk and I've waited to say this until he pushed me over the limit.

Charlie Weis is an essentially calculated man. If he wants to be portrayed as a jerk, he'll act like a jerk. If he wants to be portrayed as a dedicated family man, he'll tell a few stories about his wife and kids. If he wants to be portrayed as a smart-ass, he'll fire off a few remarks. I enjoy every minute of it. Give me a jerk any day over a nice guy who can't get it done such as our previous two coaches.

 

That sounds more like a guy that says what he thinks you want him to say. I understand that you like him and I think he'll do fine at ND but he has changed my mind when it comes to sending my kid to ND to play football.

[dougdescenzo]

I thought his name was Dascenzo.

 

I think it still is. I noticed my mistake after my third post when I looked up some stats on baseball-reference. It was foolish of me to try and spell his name off of just memory.

[Derwood]

I thought his name was Dascenzo.

 

I think it still is. I noticed my mistake after my third post when I looked up some stats on baseball-reference. It was foolish of me to try and spell his name off of just memory.

 

just PM a moderator and they'll fix the spelling for you

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Playing 2 Big 10 teams this year should help us add to the win column.

 

Who are you playing?

 

Well, I'll answer for Cuse here-they play Illinois and Iowa-Illinois at home and Iowa on the road.

 

Yep, 2 easy ones! :wink:

 

Watch it.