GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida has confirmed that former Notre Dame Fighting Irish coach Charlie Weis will be Will Muschamp's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
Florida's announcement follows Sunday's confirmation by the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs that Weis would be leaving the team to again join the college ranks. Weis will remain as offensive coordinator of the Chiefs through the postseason.
Following Sunday's regular season-ending loss to the Raiders, Weis said the Florida job will not be a distraction to him as he helps Kansas City prepare for its upcoming wild-card playoff game.
"I will do everything I can to help the Chiefs be successful,'' Weis told reporters Sunday. "I'm working for the Chiefs as long as we can make this work. Now that we're in the tournament, I'm hoping we play until February.
"I've gone through this once before [leaving the New England Patriots' staff to be the coach at Notre Dame], so I have a very good reference on how to separate family business from work. Fortunately, after going through it the last time, I had a very good experience. You go to work, you work all day. You do everything in preparation [for the game] and at the end of the day, if there's something else that has to be done, that's the time you do it."
Old news.
Still unclear why he left the Chiefs for the college game.
B/c he was once the Great Fat Hope for Notre Dame, not too long ago. And as much as he never deserved that accolade, plenty of people still seem to believe it.
Old news.
Still unclear why he left the Chiefs for the college game.
I've always heard that Weis is in fact a great coach, but that he doesn't relate well with all the baggage that college-age players carry (as opposed to the hired professional players of the NFL)
Well he's not going to be the coach. He's going to be the OC who will be calling the plays.
In the past when he was at Notre Dame, he took some criticism which is really due to the defensive side of the game. He is being recruited at Florida to do two main things: Help with offense (which he has proven to be good at) and help with recruiting (he's good at recruiting).
This makes about as much sense as tits on a bull
This makes about as much sense as tits on a bull
I don't know, the Haley-Weis tension sounds more plausible than the son angle...
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/...-legit-but-coach-todd-haley-is-a-fraud-010311
I think this is a really good thing for UF. Weis has only had success with his offenses and Muschamp is going to put together an excellent defense with Dan Quinn (another NFL assistant). UF is going to go to recruits and say "You can be to be coached by former NFL coaches in a pro system, and when you go pro you will have their connections."
How does that sound more plausible?
Oh, I see, you're joking. Or at least you'd have to be to link a Whitlock article.
He's doing it to groom his son for coaching. He's got a kid that graduates high school this spring that had some deal setup with Muschamp to go work for the football department while he's in college. He was supposed to go to Texas, but now that Muschamp is Florida's coach, he's going there, and I guess somehow Charlie was talked into going as well.
Pretty sweet deal for the kid, although it'd be weird having your dad at college with you.
The media keeps trying to portray some fighting between Haley and Weis even though there's maybe one instance of any problems at all (during some game, Haley was caught yelling into his headset, so even then the proof isn't exactly definitive). If you want an idea of how out of touch with things in KC most of the media is, a lot of them were saying Josh McDaniels is likely to take Weis' place.
I don't know, the Haley-Weis tension sounds more plausible than the son angle...