Over the last three seasons, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are 1-15 against teams that finished the season with a winning record. If you thought last year's pride-swalloing 3-9 record was awful... the 1-15 distinction is huge grains of salt into a very open wound. It's a damning statistic that would get almost any coach fired.

And that fact hasn't escaped Charlie Weis. Before this weekend's games, Weis told reporters that he hammered the team for folding against Pitt in the second half. It was clear that - before the Boston College game - Weis felt his team was ready to get up off the mat and take it to Boston College.

The result? A debacle of a 17-0 shutout loss to little brother Boston College.

But now Charlie Weis is putting all his chips into the pot and betting that the answer to Notre Dame's problems is... more Charlie Weis.

"I've been trying to do the head-coach stuff where you kind of delegate. But when there's a problem and an area where you believe you can be part of the answer, you'd better go fix it."

In other words... if the ship is going down, he's going to make sure he's steering. Weis has abandoned the CEO position and is back to holding the clipboard... for better or for worse. (Remember, it was his clipboard last season, too, and we all know how that worked out.

Notre Dame has been in a free fall since Jimmy Clausen threw an INT that cost them the North Carolina game. Make a note of that one play... it may be the one that ends up costing Weis his job.

Still... some Irish fans are faintly supporting Weis:

This is the question every Notre Dame fan calling for Weis’s head right now should be asking themselves. Does anyone else remember the last two embarassing coaching searches? After contucting two poorly managed coaching searches in the last 7 years, any future search must be handled much, much better. With first year athletic director Jack Swarbrick still settling into the positon is now really a good time to be thinking about making a change? No, it’s not.

There simply isn’t anyone out there right now that would jump at the Notre Dame job who wouldbe an obvious improvement from Weis. Knowing this is just another reason why I’m still on the Weis bandwagon and still holding out hope that Weis can right the ship.

Wow. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.

Notre Dame is still one of the premiere (if not THE premiere) head coaching positions in college football. With the insane resources at their disposal, if the Irish can't find a coach that can win... they aren't trying hard enough.