This is interesting

Ah the magic of the internet.

Via Georgia Sports Blog I come across this column at Slate.com calling Notre Dame's Charlie Weis 'the worst coach in the universe'. Naturally, this has prompted this response from The Blue-Gray Sky.

Arguably, I think calling Weis the worst coach alive is reaching a bit for namely the reasons that PWD states. It'll take another year or two to see how the recruits Weis brought in to the program perform and, considering the talent they have coming in, they figure to be able to bounce back rather well. I do think Weis is relatively overrated (as is, say, Jim Tressel at Ohio State), but not the worst coach out there (the writer never saw Mike Shula coach a game).

I do think, however, a pair of the counterarguments from The Blue-Gray Sky are kinda dumb ...

(Full Disclosure: The author of the piece is a Michigan alum. I'm obviously a Notre Dame grad. We may have to agree to disagree here.) But I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that Charlie Weis may not the worst football coach in the universe.

Here's the typical response from rapid, partisan fans who have little concept of what journalism actually is. It's quite possible that Jonathan Chait simply made a stupid argument, and in fact that's what he did. The fact that he is a Michigan graduate has nothing to do with it.

There's been a lot of talk amongst the naysayers this year about how Weis has been "exposed." The New England Patriots didn't seem to miss a beat following the absence of the offensive mastermind, although much of that is skewed due to their recent obscene success, which also can be attributed a bit towards their now current possession of perhaps the greatest wide receiver of this generation. In fact, the Patriots haven't won a Super Bowl without Weis, and if I were a shortsighted columnist with an agenda, I could skew that to suggest that the Patriots couldn't win the big game without him, and that the organization has been exposed since his departure.

Well, this is selective choosing if I've ever seen it. One can hardly pin the Patriots' inability to win a Super Bowl the past three years on the fact that Weis is no longer the offensive coordinator, particularly since New England has still enjoyed remarkable success in his absence (and is the favorite to pick up another title this year). But, still, while the Patriots may have won a big game or two with Weiss, the Irish have not.