Talked too much about off-season conditioning.
by domer.mq 
, Saturday, April 25, 2009, 09:26 (6242 days ago) @ San Pedro
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What did you do to Davie on campus?
by San Pedro , More than 100 feet from Bob Davies, Saturday, April 25, 2009, 07:59 (6242 days ago) @ domer.mq
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One thing Weis has going for him...
by domer.mq , Saturday, April 25, 2009, 07:52 (6242 days ago) @ BPH
is he really does believe in himself. Davie didn't have that. Davie was sort of the guy who figured out how to move up the corporate ladder by telling everyone what they wanted to hear even though he didn't believe in himself and he didn't believe in what he was saying. If ever the Peter Principle could be applied to a college football coach, this was it.
The sheepish way he used to address us when he'd do his dorm talks in the spring, and the sound-byte he used over and over again about "the best fans in the country..." because from the get-go, he had no idea what else to say now that he'd reached his goal all indicated a total lack of ability that he couldn't mask.
Granted, I'm not on campus now, but the things I used to hear from the players back then... Just unreal. He didn't want relationships with the guys. He wanted them to shut up and just be pieces he could move around the board while he was playing checkers against chess masters.
Funny thing is, I've met him on 2 occasions since, and he's been terribly nice and really quite gracious about ND. It's like he was in a nightmare as the HC and just didn't know it, I think. Another funny thing, he didn't seem to remember me either time, but given an encounter with a much different Davie on campus, I thought he might.
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An unpleasant trip down memory lane
Sports Illustrated story by Tim Layden from 2000: "How strong academic requirements, a suicidal schedule and an unproven coach have taken the fight out of Notre Dame"
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1019088/1/index.htm
What's the board consensus of the recruiting issue? How different, if at all, are the admissions standards now compared to then? How much is it the relative salesmanship of Davie versus Weis? I read a story like this and it makes me all the more amazed by the recruiting job that Weis did by bringing in the nation's No. 1 class during a 3-9 season. Simply mind-boggling.