http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/19...900768/ref=sr_1_2/102-5562254-8759304?ie=UTF8 Book Description From the most storied school in college football history . . .The Gold Standard -- abandoned by most of the world in the 1930s -- has been an article of faith in South Bend, Indiana, for almost a century. Mere winning records and second-tier bowl games? Not good enough for Fighting Irish fans. No college football program has produced more national championships, more All-Americans, and more Heisman Trophy winners than Notre Dame. But recently, not so much: no national championship since 1988, only one All-American since 1994, and a combined 11-12 record in the 2003-2004 seasons. So out went Tyrone Willingham, fired just three years into a five-year contract, the first Irish coach ever to be dismissed before the end of his deal. In came Charlie Weis, a forty-nine-year-old Notre Dame grad with no head coaching experience but four Super Bowl rings as an assistant coach. Weis proved, in the space of a single season, to be a football maestro with a hard edge, a brilliant mind, an affinity for detail, and an uncanny sense of how to motivate people. He returned a program mired in the blahs to its rightful (and historic) place among college football's elite. This book takes you inside a season unlike any other in Fighting Irish history -- and inside Weis's master plan for restoring the Gold Standard in South Bend.
Wow, even worse than having a restaurant with your name and a bazillion tv ads for a regional car dealer network. Sounds like good bathroom reading...in an outhouse...that just ran out of Charmin.
My fav: "...its rightful (and historic) place among college football's elite." 'Deserves' ain't got nothing to do with it' :thumb:
Can we hurry and insert an addendum that says how Weis totally destroyed the Notre Dame football program forever? Please? I'll help with the inserts.
Ssshhhhhh....that's part of his master plan - the "lose so bad they'll never see us coming" head-fake.
