[damaniac]

One response to the BGS response. They said:

"I would like to see the naysayers point to another coach who, without any relevant previous head coaching or college coaching experience, lead an incredibly high-profile team to levels of comparable achievement."

How many high-profile teams HIRE coaches without any relevant head coaching or college level coaching experience? Of course no one can find anyone in such a situation that has done as well as Weis; major programs don't hire these people as head coaches.

Overall, the defense suffers the same defect as most of what we've been hearing: it tries to justify this unholy abortion of a season on almost anything other than Weis, with the ocassional "yeah but he's learning, everyone learns on the job" rif. Sure, everyone learns on the job, and everyone makes mistakes, but no one who winds up being good every does this bad. That's the point.

Basically, the ND line is that Weis just so happens to be at the center of the greatest "perfect storm" ever, and in other words is just very, very unlucky. That's possible, but Occam's Razor suggests otherwise.