Posts tagged CharlieWeis at FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog

"I remember thinking to myself during some of the runs, 'Charlie Weis is a genius,'" Young said. "I mean, I remember saying that to people: 'This guy is uncanny, how he's able to make these adjustments and just come out and dominate in the second half.' What it's left me to do is, well, I don't know. Did it matter? I could see how it could matter if you put it all together. So it's a tough one. I think that people earn it on the field, and I think you've got to move on and move forward and just recognize that it's not a good thing at the time."

"I asked one of our quarterbacks if the information that I provided was beneficial in any way," Walsh told the Times. "He said, 'Actually, probably about 75 percent of the time, Tampa Bay ran the defense we thought they were going to run. If not more.' "

In the HBO interview, Walsh said this unnamed quarterback learned the Buccaneers' defensive signals from the exhibition tapes, then read them and relayed them to Weis during the regular-season game.

Weis said Friday he will begin severing the ''umbilical cord'' between himself and the offense during spring practice and will relinquish play-calling duties to offensive coordinator Mike Haywood this fall.

'Play-calling is my greatest strength, OK, but I'm the head coach, and when you're play-calling on offense, you might not necessarily be the best head coach,'' Weis said. ''So what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to be a better head coach.''

Weis said he will use the time he once devoted to scripting plays and fine-tuning game plans to make himself more available to young players. He hopes forging better relationships with them will ease and hasten their adjustment to the college game.

The 42 Stops to Super Bowl XLII is a series that will feature stories, stats and interesting trivia that you can use to act smart as you prepare for Super Bowl XLII.

Patriots head coach Bill Belichick will be looking across the field at the Giants' head coach Tom Coughlin. Seventeen years ago, they were on the same sideline in the Super Bowl.

Super Bowl XXV is best remembered as the one where Scott Norwood's missed a possible game winning field goal (still the best finish to any Super Bowl) ... or the one where Whitney Houston lip-synched the national anthem to thunderous applause. It is also one where the Giants had one of the best coaching staffs in recent memory.

Bill Parcells was the head coach of the bunch. Bill Belichick was the defensive coordinator and secondary coach. Tom Coughlin was the receivers coach. That was the third and last year those men would all be together on the same staff. Do you think the secondary and receivers ever went against each other during practice?

How about some other names on that staff? Charlie Weis (Notre Dame), Romeo Crennel (Browns) and Al Grohl (Virginia) are also current head coaches that was on Parcells crew.

Munir Prince (above), a reserve cornerback from St. Louis, has left Notre Dame and is transferring to Missouri.

Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis confirmed the departure, and [Prince's high school coach] Pat Mahoney confirmed the pending arrival.

Weis is a Parcells protege. He is the perfect guy to revive a sorry NFL offense; tutor the Dolphins' franchise QB (whether it's John Beck or whoever the Dolphins could draft in April); and -- most important -- escape a sinkhole situation in South Bend that turned ugly in 2007. ...

If Weis returns to the pros, both he and Notre Dame get a terrific "out" -- "hey, it's the NFL... it's Parcells... how could he say no?" Weis gets to be the NFL head coach he always wanted to be, under a mentor who provides ultimate protection; Notre Dame gets to back out of a coaching move they may have learned to regret -- and to re-set with a real college coach and a cupboard stocked with young talent.

I think it's just so crazy that it just might work.

Charlie Weis

"That's critical," Weis said. "Not just to take the hit, it's to be able to shrug off guys. The really good quarterbacks, you'll see they are getting touched a lot but they don't go down a lot."

Weis said he has talked to Clausen at length about the need for him to get stronger.

Charlie Weis will do some serious self-evaluation after this season. Then the Notre Dame coach will let his old coaching buddies on the New England Patriots put their two cents in.

"I think that those guys would have no problem telling me what things I did right and what things I did wrong," Weis said Sunday. "I think those resources, those people, because we're close enough and have a very close relationship won't be afraid of saying to me, 'What the heck are you doing?' And that's what I want. I want somebody to be able to tell me, to say it like that. And I know that those guys would do that."

Rumor Of The Day

Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis offered to resign but was told it would not be accepted.

Freshman Jimmy Clausen will start at quarterback for the Irish against Air Force on Saturday, Notre Dame announced Wednesday.

Irish coach Charlie Weis did not make himself available for comment but a team spokesman said Weis would address the choice Thursday evening. Clausen was not available for comment Wednesday.