After his team’s 45-38 loss to Stanford on Saturday night, Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis didn’t meet with reporters.
Instead, he did a postgame radio interview, and a transcript of it was given to reporters who would have preferred to actually pose questions directly to Weis.
Here’s what he said, via the Chicago Tribune.
On the loss: “It was amicrocosm of our season. We’re up 38-30, then they come down and scoreand then they go for two to tie. You figure, ‘Here we go again.’ . . . They move the ball down there and then we go, ‘What are we doingletting them score?’ I figured it was the only way to get us anopportunity to score. We get it down there to the 30-yard line with anopportunity to get it in the end zone, crazier things have happened,and we just played short. It’s just the way the year’s been.”
On Jimmy Clausen and Golden Tate: “Theboth of them are just awesome. They put in phenomenal performances. Everyone was wondering if we were going to show up or not, and theydid. They certainly answered the bell.”
On Stanford’s Toby Gerhart: “He’s a big, physical runner. Everyone thinks he runs north-south, butthey run him to the edge a lot on a toss or a toss-sweep. When he getsto the edge, you’re in trouble.”
On the end of the season: “I feel really bad for the outgoing players. I think too many times weforget that these guys are kids. There’s a bunch of 22-, 23-year-oldyoung men right there finishing out their career losing the last fourgames. They feel miserable and I feel miserable for them.”
Weis likely will be feeling even more miserable once he gets the official word that his time in South Bend has come to an end. Then again, by all appearances, he already knew that Saturday night’s game would be his last game before it even started.
