Slate.com Calls Charlie Weis "The Worst Football Coach in the Universe"

This is one of the most spectacularly blistering pieces you'll read from Slate.com. My favorite paragraphs:

Weis' Fighting Irish now stand at 1-7. This record is only the faintest indicator of just how awful Notre Dame is. They have lost nine of their last 10 games, by an average of 24 points. None has been close. While Notre Dame has suffered very few injuries, three of its opponents have had to play the Irish without their starting quarterbacks. Two of those teams, USC and Michigan, nonetheless beat Notre Dame by a larger margin than either has beaten any other opponent so far this year. Notre Dame's lone win came against UCLA, which had been forced to use its third-string quarterback, a walk-on. In that game, Notre Dame compiled just 140 yards of offense, but won with the help of seven Bruin turnovers, five of them hand-delivered courtesy of the hapless walk-on signal-caller.

Just how bad is Notre Dame? Of the 119 teams in Division I-A, ND is 119th in total offense, 119th in rushing offense, 112th in passing offense, and 118th in scoring. If Notre Dame had doubled its scoring output, it would still rank 108th. If it doubled its rushing output (currently 34 yards a game), it would barely eke out Duke for 118th place.

Notre Dame homer blog Blue Gray Sky has its lengthy retort. In reality, we won't know how bad Weis really is until next year when he has four recruiting classes of his very own to drive into the pavement. But right now...the stats are overwhelming. As my brother said, "every time you hear another Notre Dame stat that can't blows your mind with its awfulness, you hear another stat the next day that tops it."

PWD

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