Obama's Speech Wasn't Controversial, but Charlie Weis' Coaching Is

Amidst great controversy regarding his support for abortion rights, United States President Barack Hussein Obama II presented the commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame last week.

Notre Dame’s President, The Rev. John Jenkins, was widely criticized by dozens of American Catholic bishops for inviting our nation’s 44th President to speak and also for granting Obama with an honorary degree despite his stance on abortion.

Following the commencement, Obama spoke last Sunday night at an Indianapolis fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee and he initiated his address by jesting that the hoopla surrounding his appearance at South Bend “paled in comparison to what to do about the football team.”

“That’s an issue we may not resolve within my four years,” remarked the graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School.

“Eight,” shouted a spectator in the audience, obviously disenchanted with the Fighting Irish football program that has a record of 10-15 over the past two seasons on the gridiron.

“All right, well, maybe in eight we might get it done,” Obama teased.

Irish head coach Charlie Weis, who has gone a disappointing 29-21 at his alma mater since becoming the 28th head football coach in Notre Dame history, signed a 10-year deal worth a reported $30 to 40 million in 2006.

Assuming that he doesn’t receive his deserved termination notice beforehand, the contract would allow the portly Weis, 53, to waddle along the Notre Dame Stadium sidelines through the 2015 season.

Weis, a white man’s response to Fat Albert who lost 90 lbs after he underwent gastric bypass surgery in 2002, claimed his players would have a “decided schematic advantage”  against their opponents after he resigned as the New England Patriots Offensive Coordinator and took the helm at the “House that Rockne Built.”

The native of New Jersey is atypical among his fellow NCAA Division I football coaches because he neither played the sport himself at the college level nor taught the game before in any capacity in the collegiate ranks.

Nevertheless, since Weis was hired to coach the Irish in 2004, college football analysts have raved about his ability to lure blue chip prospects to South Bend, and Notre Dame’s recruiting classes have consistently ranked among the best in the nation.

Unfortunately and perplexedly, the wealth of talent assembled at Notre Dame has translated into the most losses at the school in any two-year period beginning at the start of the 2007 campaign.

It is fair to speculate that collegiate scouts failed miserably at their jobs and vastly overrated the Irish’s incoming personnel from high school. It is also reasonable to consider the possibility that Notre Dame’s players are in fact elite talents who are being led by an inadequate coach.

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program have not won a national championship since 1988 and they need to immediately recapture their spot among the sports exclusive programs or Charlie Weis deserves to be stripped of his role in South Bend.

It is simply overdue that Weis makes the Irish "Play Like A Champion Today" and fans of Notre Dame football can name 30 to 40 million reasons why they shouldn't expect anything less this coming autumn.

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