Charlie Weis on the Hot Seat?

I'm not an Irish fan by a longshot. But college football is better when Notre Dame is better. And Charlie isn't making the Irish better.

Charlie Weis has been given everything that Ty Willingham wasn't given at Notre Dame. He wanted a lighter schedule...and he's got a lighter schedule. He wanted academic standards lessened for incoming recruits, and he got it. And he's failed miserably. He's never beaten USC. EVER. (Hell, John Cooper even beat Michigan a couple times). He has (I think I'm getting this right) never beaten a team that finished the season with fewer than 4 losses. He's lost to Navy. TWICE. He lost to Syracuse.

Just as it takes a very special coach to be able to make the transition from successful college coach to successful pro coach, it takes just as special a coach to make the transition the other way. Pete Carroll is the exception, not the rule. And I think Fat Charlie is falling more into the Bill Callahan mode than anything resembling a success.

The hue and cry when Ty Willingham was let go was that Notre Dame had ALWAYS given their coaches five years. Gerry Faust got five years. Bob Davie got 5 years. They didn't win. They were fired .Charlie's had his 5. He's 35-25. And right now, they stink. And there is one common denominator in their Stinkitude. And that's Charlie. He can't blame Ty for leaving the cupboard bare (although it was Ty's players that got him to his 2 BCS games). His players. His coaches. His record. His failures.

There is one thing that is keeping Charlie at ND right now, and it isn't the money. It's Notre Dame not wanting a repeat of the fiasco that went on when they hired Weis. They won't put themselves in the position (again) of getting shined by their number 1 guy (Urban Meyer). Or their #2 guy (Mike Bellotti). If there's a search going on, it's going on now; they'll have the new coach signed, sealed, and delivered before they pull the trigger on Weis. Charlie's done. We know it. He knows it. ND is just waiting until they've gone to Home Depot to get the New Head Shovel before they start throwing dirt on his coffin.