I would hold off on proclaiming Notre Dame is 'back' just yet. Charlie Weis did, after all, out gameplan Dave Wanndstedt, which simply means Weis is as good as any other coach at either the college or pro level.
I have not ever understood the Pitt fans and alums' infatuation with the hiring of Wanndstedt. The guy hasn't met an NFL franchise that he single-handedly couldn't set back five years (Bears, Dolphins). So what does he do when he arrives at Pitt? Makes the worst coaching debut of any Pitt head coach in 30 years.
After the game, Wanndstedt apparently read the same post game comments he has been carrying on an index card in his pocket for the last 10 years he has been coaching ...
"We must have miscalculated them, and that's my responsibility."
"We hit adversity, and we did not deal with adversity the way championship teams deal with adversity. We didn't handle it well."
"I didn't do a good enough job of getting the guys prepared."
"I must not have done a good enough job of preventing our guys from reading newspapers and magazines and thinking we were a little further along or a better football team than we are today."
Here's hoping Solich's Bobcats thump 'em at Peden this Friday.
