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Now that Charlie Weis is officially out as the head coach of the Notre Dame football team, it’s high time we run out the usual suspects to find Weis’ replacement. While media outlets have been reporting on potential replacements for the past week or so, the reality of the situation is that nobody has any…
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Tough to play a game of semantics with this one. Bob Stoops declared today that he’ll be at Oklahoma next year, according to the Daily Oklahoman’s David Ubben. “I’m going to be at Oklahoma next year,” he said. “If (athletic director) Joe (Castiglione) will have me and President (David) Boren, that’s what I intend to…
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Word has officially come from the Notre Dame athletic department that Charlie Weis will not be retained as head football coach. Rob Ianello “will assume responsibility for football operations until a new coach is hired.” Here’s the entire release from Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame head football coach Charlie Weis will not be retained,…
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Citing a “source close to the program,” the New York Daily News reports that Charlie Weis is officially out as Notre Dame football coach. I’m sure there will be more that soon follows, but this is the first legit media outlet to report Weis’ firing as official. More to come…
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For the record, I don’t feel 100 percent comfortable talking about Charlie Weis in the past tense as Notre Dame’s head coach yet, but I thought this was too interesting not to write about. Peter King, Sports Illustrated’s best football writer and one of the chief information men on NBC’s Football Night in America coverage…
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Among other things that are happening on campus today, the players will vote on whether or not they want to play in a bowl game. The South Bend Tribune’s Eric Hansen has the best breakdown of bowl options for the 6-6 Irish team: The Irish appear to have just four options. All four are bowls…
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As Eric Hansen reported today, the Irish returned from Stanford Sunday morning with an ESPN satellite truck waiting for them. Expect it to stay there until a new coach is introduced. As the regular season ends, we now enter something far more morbid and curious, the official death watch of the Charlie Weis era. Rumors…
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The end is here. Even with the usual heroics from Golden Tate, Jimmy Clausen, and Michael Floyd, a punishing performance by Robert Hughes, and 448 yards of offense, the Irish lose to Stanford. Like many teams before them, the Irish failed to contain Toby Gerhart, who ran for 205 yards on 29 carries for three…
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With rumors swirling around coaches like Bob Stoops and Brian Kelly, Jack Swarbrick once again shot down talk that the Irish have made contact with any coaches about a potential vacancy at Notre Dame. “Anything you hear about a contact with a coach is absolutely wrong,” Swarbrick said. Earlier this week, prominent college football writer…
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Tonight could be the last time we see Charlie Weis roam the sidelines of his alma mater’s football team. If that’s the case, the man deserves a very large thank you from fans and foes alike. Five years ago, Weis was the perfect man for Notre Dame. He had a Super Bowl winning pedigree. He…
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Our friends over at CFT pulled a good nugget from the Illinois-Cincinnati broadcast this morning, shedding light on the Brian Kelly to Notre Dame rumors. Mike Florio reports that ABC analyst Bob Griese shed some light on Kelly’s potential move to South Bend if the Irish look to replace Charlie Weis. “I talked to Brian…
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I’ve been as guilty as anyone these last two weeks looking past the actual football games to the juicy subplots that seem to have taken over the month of November. But today the Irish board a plane for Palo Alto where a Saturday night date with the Stanford Cardinal awaits. And if there was anything…
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Stuck in his own nightmare season, Brady Quinn still found time to support his college coach. “Personally I think it would be a horrible decision if they did make that change,” Quinn said. “I think there are a lot of circumstances that play into seasons like this. Hopefully he’ll have an opportunity to have another…
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There will be plenty of time to discuss Stanford, the 2009 Hot Seat, Jimmy Clausen and Golden Tate’s futures, and the regular season coming to a close, but for now, everybody enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday. I’ll be back with a ton of stuff later today and going full bore through tomorrow, but I’ve got two…
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This from the Chicago Tribune: Editor’s note: This story, originally published in Wednesday’s editions of the Chicago Tribune’s Sports section, included incorrect information that the South Bend, Ind., house owned by the parents of Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen had been sold. The error was a result of a miscommunication between the Century 21 representative…
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Joe Schad went on ESPN to speculate on potential coaches if Charlie Weis is replaced, and he might as well have gotten his information from the water cooler or from combing the message boards at NDNation. Schad has quickly become a guy that has gotten plenty of scoops and was out in front of the…
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Athletic director Jack Swarbrick is ready for the bright lights. In anticipation of that, he spent some time talking with Pete Thamel of the New York Times, who posted an interesting Q&A with the man in charge of the fate of Charlie Weis. Here are some good snippets: Q: Your senior year as a student…
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For those of us that think the decision on Weis and his staff hasn’t been made yet, yesterday wasn’t a day to support that theory. Let’s lay out the pieces and see if we can see if the puzzle is starting to reveal itself. 1) Weis isn’t staying out west to recruit California. Last season,…
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Let’s just say yesterday could’ve been an eventful day, and from the sounds of it, the things that didn’t happen became the event. Let’s start with the much discussed: * Charlie Weis didn’t want to talk about the future anymore and just wanted to talk about Stanford. Firstly I have a news flash. We have…
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Here’s the video from Charlie Weis’ weekly press conference. It’ll be the only footage from either staff or players, as Notre Dame canceled the usual media sessions with the captains and assistant coaches.
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Last night turned quite eventful with the reporting of the Jimmy Clausen sucker punch/bar fight mess, and usually the lag between Monday morning and Tuesday press conference leaves us with not much to talk about. That certainly isn’t the case this week, with speculation rampant and an entire season to look back on and dissect.…
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Looks like the awards committee got one thing right: Golden Tate is a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award. Tate joins Texas’ Jordan Shipley and Bowling Green’s Freddie Barnes for the prestigious award given to the best wide receiver in college football. The winner will be announced on December 10th during the ESPNU College Football Awards.…
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We’ll find out more tomorrow when Charlie Weis addresses the media, but multiple media sources are reporting that quarterback Jimmy Clausen was involved in a fight late Saturday/early Sunday morning outside a South Bend bar. First reported by David Kaplan of Chicago WGN-AM radio, the Chicago Tribune’s Brian Hamilton has more of the details. Starting…
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The Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award announced its three finalists, and Jimmy Clausen was not one of them. Houston’s Case Keenum, Texas’ Colt McCoy, and Florida’s Tim Tebow will attend the ESPNU College Football Awards Show December 10th, with the winner announced that evening. Keenum leads the nation in passing yards, averaging 414 yards per…
