Over the past couple of years, Notre Dame University has has the pleasure of being coached by one of the remaning "gentlemen of the game", Charlie Weis. He has had the opprotunity to completely turn a school's football program around in a very short time, and I believe it is safe to say that he did just that.

Granted, Notre Dame will always be known as a powerhouse in college football. However, disappointing Bowl Game finishes and underdeveloped talent plagued Weis' predacessors, causing many experts to rank the Fighting Irish lower in the polls each year. In fact, it was only a matter of time before Norte Dame was not ranked in the National Top 25, something that has only occurred a handful of times in the long history of the university.

Despite the fact that the Fighting Irish have not won a National Championship under Weis to this point, two aspects of his coaching philosophy remain constant and unwavering: passion and loyalty.

Will Charlie Weis jump back to the NFL in 2007? Extremely doubtful, and partially because of the reasons presented above. I do believe, however, the biggest reason Weis will stay in South Bend for many years is the fact that he has complete control over the organization. He was finally able to move out from behind the shadow of Bill Belicheck in New England and was given the opprotunity to instill his own offensive-minded into a successful and proven football organization.

To leave college football now would mean the end of this freedom, especially when considering the "outside pressures" evident in professional sports (General Managers, highly paid assistant coaches, marketing issues, etc.).

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