Why Charlie Weis Won't Last Long at Notre Dame

As many college football fans have seen, Charlie Weis has run the Notre Dame program into the ground. How many times are we going to hear how good next year will be? Every time we hear something from Notre Dame, it is always something about next year.

We have a good recruiting class, we have a lot of returning starters, it seems it will never end about next year for them. Why will they not focus on the now?

We all heard that Notre Dame bought out Weis' contract, but he is still at the school and remains the head football coach. And it seems he could be out the door possibly at the end of this season.

Ty Willingham had a better record in a smaller amount of time to do it in. Yet, Weis remains at the school with the top-three worst records for a head coach in Notre Dame history in his time at the school.

He has never been a good head coach, even in his first two seasons at the school. Basically, Willingham built the school's football team and had a good team coming up for his next season, then he gets fired.

Weis comes in with all these good players and does well, he gets an extension and everything. Brady Quinn was a junior Weis' first season at Notre Dame. They end up winning because of Quinn and the rest of the good recruiting class Willingham made.

It was sort of like Tony Dungy's Tampa Bay Buccaneers team. He had pretty good seasons with them, but they never seemed to win the big one. He built that team from a good to great team.

He just as Willingham did, go fired. Dungy then goes to Indianapolis and John Gruden takes over the Tampa Bay job. Tampa Bay ends up winning the Super Bowl Gruden's first year with the team.

It was a team he inherited and did well with, but he never did much with to get to that position. Dungy won a Super Bowl  with the Colts later on, and now Gruden's Buccaneer team struggles to get in the playoffs. When they do its one and done.

What I am getting at is, there are good coaches and bad. Weis' had a good team his first two seasons that he inherited from Willingham's stint at Notre Dame. Now that team is gone and all of his recruits are there, and now they are losing.

Is it a coincidence? I think not. Weis is not a good coach and they have still yet to win a bowl game in over a decade. Weis was suppose to be their answer to guys like Pete Carrol at USC. He was supposed to be that offensive genius we saw in New England.

He will always be a good coordinator, but he has to have someone else lead. Some are leaders and some are followers. Weis is a better follower, plain and simple. Hopefully Notre Dame will see that.