In reply to: as much as I can't stand Davie and Kelly posted by irishrock
Are you talking about same guy who lost to pathetic teams like Uconn, 'Cuse, Navy
Willingham ultimately doomed him. In 2007, we had 18-19 year olds playing against 22 year olds from other teams. His attempts to mask this with his schemes certainly didn’t help.
Weis is/was an OC...not a HC. He so badly wanted to be Parcells, but there is only one of him.
Weis just didn't know how to coach an entire team. I will say this...he was as unlucky as Kelly was lucky with regards to USC. Kelly got such a free pass for his record but the schedule was so watered down ALONG with the fact that USC was down during his tenure. Weis was 0-5...and a few of the games weren't even close
Behind the scenes of his highly ranked 2005 and 2006 seasons, there was very little player development going on. The highly rated Feb 2006 recruiting class didn't amount to jack diddly poo and got pushed around on both lines of scrimmage by the likes of UConn at the end of their senior year. I don't think anyone from that recruiting class got drafted higher than 6th round as I recall.
experimentation with the offense and Demetrius Jones was just foolish. Weis should stuck with Sharpley and the original offense for at least the first half of 2007. After six games, maybe you give Claussen a shot, rather than throwing him to the wolves in AnnArbor week 2.