Did Notre Dame fire football head coach Charlie Weis?
Charlie Weis was fired as football coach at the University of Notre Dame, ending a five-year tenure in which he won one bowl game and had a lower winning percentage than predecessors Tyrone Willingham and Bob Davie. Weis’s dismissal comes two days after Notre Dame’s 45-38 season-ending loss at Stanford. The Irish fell to 6-6, the third straight year they’ve ended the regular season without a winning record. Weis finished with a 35-27 record at his alma mater, and was unable to restore the luster to a program that ranks third in college football history with 837 wins and won national championships under coaches such as Knute Rockne, Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian and Lou Holtz. “We have great expectations for our football program, and we have not been able to meet those expectations,” Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick said in a statement on the school’s Web site. “As an alumnus, Charlie understands those goals and expectations better than most, and he’s as disappointed as anyone
Sources at Notre Dame Have Reported to ESPN that Charlie Weis Has Been Fired Charlie Weis was fired by Notre Dame today. Charlie Weis has been fired by the Notre Dame Football program after five seasons as head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and the team will now begin its search for a new head coach to take the reins in 2010. Notre Dame has not issued an official statement about Weis being fired, but a member of the Notre Dame Football staff has told ESPN that the coaches were informed of a decision earlier in a meeting on Monday. The school’s athletic director has also confirmed to ESPN that the removal of Weis has taken place, and we expect a press conference to take place sometime later today. The decision by Notre Dame to fire Charlie Weis probably won’t come as much of a surprise to many people involved with college football, because it had been rumored for weeks that the performance of the Notre Dame Football team under Charlie Weis was heading in the wrong decision. Af
