To say Notre Dame Coach Charlie Weis is “feeling the heat” is, admittedly, a massive understatement. The guy’s ass is as red as a stop sign, thanks to the proverbial hot seat he’s been sitting on since signing his massive contract extension when it seemed he was the savior of Notre Dame football. Alas, following a loss to Navy and Pittsburgh, it seems the Irish faithful have given up on ole Weis.

He goes down as the biggest, most colossal failure ever. Worse than Tyrone Willingham by far. Never has anyone been blown up to such proportions, at Notre Dame of all places, and then done so little. The whole thing was just hot air.

I loathe the Irish. In my opinion, the movie Rudy is the only good thing to come out of Notre Dame. When the media started heralding Weis as the second coming, I laughed, knowing his Brady Quinn led Irish teams were only good enough to pound on the crap teams that filled their schedule. Despite my loathing of all things Irish football, I can’t help but feel for Coach Weis.

Sure, the Navy loss was huge, and probably the deal breaker. But people are acting as if the Pittsburgh loss was equivalent to the Navy loss. Obviously Notre Dame would win a best history contest against Pittsburgh, but that’s not what the match up Saturday night was about. It was about this year’s Notre Dame team playing this year’s Pittsburgh team. Pittsburgh was favored to win and it should have come as no surprised that they won. In fact, I was personally surprised it was as close as it was. They only lost by 5!

The only criticism that makes sense for this game is that it was the big one that Weis didn’t win. But as close a game it was, I don’t think he should get canned for it. Fire him because of the Navy loss and the colossal let down that is Jimmy Clausen, not this Pittsburgh loss.

[via Fanhouse]