At Least Weis Recruited. Sorta.

One thing universally credited to Charlie Weis during his tenure as Notre Dame coach was (and it’s all but past tense now, practically speaking) his ability to recruit. Hire an effective defensive coordinator? No. Beat ranked teams? Not so much. Win bowls taking place in the continental United States? His apologies.

Recruiting, though? Yea, verily, according to all major recruiting services, though one coach begs to differ with the universal huzzahs for Weis’ recruiting tactics:

…Nick Saban returned my call, and yet no one from Notre Dame has ever returned my call. Geewhiz Charlie, that’s not exactly the way to get a kid to choose ND over other BCS schools — and then you offer him blind without so much as making contact with any coach? No. That’s not the way to go about the business.

So even recruiting may have been done a bit on the shoddy and arrogant side during Weis’ tenure, something that doesn’t go down well with the high school coaches likely to funnel kids one way or another on the way to signing day.