Weis Now Sees the ‘Bigger Picture’ and Son Returns to School

When a school touts its athletic program as being one of the biggest and oldest, it would make sense that Charlie Weis’ son tried to skip school for three days after his father’s football team lost to Syracuse a few years back. According to the story in Chicago Tribune, the Weis family talked about all that and felt that they didn’t want to leave that way. Deciding that they had come to win games and lay down their roots, they immediately did that.

Weis, coming from the NFL, had no clue that being a college coach meant being a coach, an alumnus, a networker, and a press conference spokesperson; so when it came down to coaching his team, Weis didn’t know what to do. His third season coaching was probably the worst. After blowing large leads, being shut out, and barely beating a low seeded team, Weis needed reassurance that he wasn’t being fired.

Before going on recruiting trips, Weis told school officials that he needed to be able to tell the recruits that he was the coach. And that is what they told him to do. Weis, with higher hopes and possibly lower levels of arrogance, will be the Fighting Irish football coach this coming 2009 season.

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