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Originally Posted by NTamm1215
If you honestly feel that you can make an assessment like that, "This fat ball at Notre Dame can't get it done either" after two games, both against top 15 teams, then I suppose we can agree to disagree.
You then said that I am requesting we give Weis a "long time." If you consider three seasons a long time, then yeah, I'm asking for a long time.
Your post wreaks of a bad sports attitude right now that coaches should be given no slack for even part of a bad season. You are talking about firing a guy who was the toast of South Bend two years ago, given a TEN YEAR CONTRACT EXTENSION, and is now piecing together a team that lost every major skill position player. Hell, if ND wasn't planning on giving Weis the entire 2007 season to get this team straightened out, then they should have fired him over the summer.
The Rooneys could have pulled the plug on Bill Cowher numerous times. The Jazz could have done so with Jerry Sloan. Paterno could have gotten fired, same with Bowden. Sometimes coaches deserve some time and I'm quite confident more than two games is a necessary amount of time.
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I'm not advocating firing the guy at all, but great college football coaches (with 10 year contracts) have to have the ability to look ahead and assess what their team is going to look like for the next couple years and do something about it. There is a benefit from playing these cupcake teams that most of the big programs do, you rotate young players in so when you lose "every major skill position player" in one season, the cupboard is not bare. Elite programs reload, they don't need entire seasons to straighten out their team.
That said, he has only been there two years and only had one recruiting class to work with (last year), but I would not advocate giving him a free pass for the whole season. He needs to show major improvement as
his kids get playing time and their schedule seems to set up nicely for a big finish so next year they can be overrated at the start of the season.