<p>I have made my case against Weis, but if the buyout cupboard is bare, ND needs to face facts and make a couple of immediate, drastic changes in its program:</p>
<p>1) It cannot continue to play USC. When the Irish are only capable of four mercy first downs courtesy of the second team USC defense and 96 yards total offense, it is clear that Charlie cannot coach his five star athletes at a level competitive with serious teams on the USC, Oklahoma, Texas, Florida (BCS) level. Year in, Year out slaughters do not help our NFL bound guys get there and are dispiriting to everyone. These kind of games lead to the unseemly extracurricular stuff we saw late in the game, which hurts the image of both teams. With Charlie in charge, we should acknowledge that we are no longer relevant at a big time level. Lets do the honorable thing and withdraw from the battle.</p>
<p>2) We will need to do some kind of major outreach with our current NFL guys to keep our most talented players from transferring. I just don’t see how the guys who want NFL futures are going to put up with the schedule we have next year and Weis’ continued erractic coaching. I also don’t see how we recruit new talent as well.</p>
<p>Or, we could recruit a real coach that could take a team that has an 80,000 seat stadium and its own television network to the National level where it belongs, (and stay within two touchdowns of a BCS caliber team.)</p>