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For Weis, Irish journey a work in progress
Chicago Tribune, United States - 6 hours ago

Friday afternoon, however, was devoted to a much more candid assessment of the season, as Irish coach Charlie Weis offered both a postmortem on Notre Dame's 44-24 loss a week earlier at USC, and a look back at the season as a whole.

"You know, sometimes I say statistics are for losers," Weis said. "Well, all you have to do is look at the stats and see that both teams ended up with 404 yards for the game. Obviously, they played better than we did. We didn't start fast. We didn't finish strong. They outscored us in the first quarter and fourth quarters, which are the key quarters."

Can the Irish do anything about that the next time out? Can they finally get off to a fast start in a tough game? Of the five losses Notre Dame has suffered in the last two seasons, four have come at the hands of top-tier opponents: USC and Ohio State last season and Michigan and USC this year.

"That doesn't make it feel any better," Weis said. "It's better than losing to a team that's not any good, but I hate losing."

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 05:17:00 GMT

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[Lefty Noob]

He wants them to get better against highly ranked, highly touted opponents, and who can blame them. A win over either USC or Michigan this year, and maybe Notre Dame sneaks their way into the title game, who knows. Those are tough games to win, for sure, but for this to be a truly elite team again, they've got to win a few of these.

[domer747]

I agree, as great as Charlie Weis has been so far, he's going to get a reputation as someone who can't win the big one until he can pull off something such as a bowl win over the SEC opponent. I still wouldn't trade him for the another coach, things will get better....which is hard to say when you go 10-2! Years ago I would have given anything to have back to back two loss regular seasons, things are getting better....