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"This time, I was maybe a little more rough at halftime," Weis said.

I like how Notre Dame was finally able to compete in a football game, and Coach Weis let's us know that his half time speech was the key element.

The awed media was unable to ask the follow on about why he saved it for the fifth game to hear the presumed response: "Well, I'd been breaking out my NFL half-time speeches, but they only work with committed, hard-working athletes, and -- previous regimes didn't leave me any of those. Those speeches are also given to the Pro Bowlers, who in turn pass them on to everyone else-- and you know how many Pro Bowlers I got from my predecessor-- but I've learned my lessons, and I'm finally starting to refocus and dim my brilliance so it can reach the college kid."