A rebuttal to today's Sun Times piece on Zook and Weis
I read a column today from the ND beat writer in the Sun Times. The question: Why does Zook get a pass, when Weis gets pounded. What follows was a long description of all of what he thought was a myriad of failures and disappointments. His math shakes out to be 6-6 > 5-7 why not we fire Zook instead????
Look if you are going to say Weis is being unfairly treated, fine. If you want to say that Zook deserves more criticism, that is also fine. But do not try and mix the two, its like comparing apples to hand grenades.
Here in no particular order is why this column makes no sense.
-If he reads his own paper, he would know, Zook has gotten quite a bit of criticism.
-Zook never claimed a "decided schematic advantage" over his opponents
-Zook has had decent recruiting classes, but has never had 3 straight top 10 classes like Weis has, you tell me who is not getting the most out of their talent.
-Notre Dame has a gigantic booster organization, a much larger stadium, a much larger athletic budget, a network TV deal for all of their home games, and a sweetheart deal with the BCS. Illinois has none of these advantages.
-Charlie Weis is suppposedly making somewhere between 3-4 million a year to lose football games with these advantages. Zook makes just over a million point five.
-And perhaps most of all, Illinois football has suffered quite a bit in recent years, and isn't expecting BCS game every year, just a winning record. With all of the advantages Weis enjoys, and the ridiculous amount of money he is making don't you think he should be answerable for his arrogance and his failures?
Pointing out the shortcomings of another coach does not excuse the shortcomings of yours. Coming from ND beat writer, I can't figure out why he wrote this column, and now he says, Zook needs to beat Ohio State to salvage his reputation. Sure it would help, but I think getting the Illini to a winning record and back to a bowl is much more important, win or lose at OSU. It seems pretty apparent that this guy knows very very little about Illini football.
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That guy is a moron. Are you sure he isn’t Lou Holtzschhcchchzz’s alias?
by BrosWubba on Sep 26, 2009 1:01 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Well done
And is he serious? As much as I love my Illini, we haven’t exactly enjoyed the history that ND has. ND, as bad as they’ve been lately, remains a top destination for top talent, unlike Illinois. Zook hasn’t done a great job, but I’ll give him a year or two before I truly judge him. He’s afforded a little slack. Weis hasn’t
Bear Down, Chicago Bears!
by topdoggkyle on Sep 26, 2009 11:20 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Proof in point on reason #5,756 why I could give a shit about Notre Dame.
It isn’t enough that they have a team name that offends non-Catholic Irish folks like myself. No, their fans, team and (apparently) their beat-writers and columnists have to be arrogant pricks too.
Honestly, Joe . . . I’m not sure this even dignified a response. With that said . . . well done, sir.
One day, David Backes and Albert Pujols will combine forces to become the most awesome piece of violent force known to man.
by Donut King on Sep 26, 2009 12:48 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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