In reply to: Notre Dame needs to make things right with it's football posted by jt
and was well liked...they might not have had confidence that he'd turn it around, but the give guys I know all felt that Weis did a lot of reaching out to former players to embrace the past
Bumped into a former player who complained shortly after Weis was hired that monogram guys were excluded from the football offices.
before the games in the Schivarelli media room/player’s lounge were in response to rumblings re treatment on game weekends during the Weis regime. I can understand why you don’t want people hanging around the Football Office on a home game weekend though. I know that not what Wes and Tim were talking about in the podcast, however.
I remember hitting the men’s room during a game long after we graduated. I ran into a DL that needed multiple surgeries from playing days at ND. I let him know it was bullshit that he had to search for a ticket to the game, especially since when we graduated, being a member of the Monogram Club meant access to two two tickets to games for life. They nixed that when the number of sports grew, and Holtz had ticket demand at high levels. Of course, they could have continued the guarantee for the FB guys but I guess they figured that wasn’t fair.
In the spring of 2006 was well attended by former players and very well done. Weis committed to embracing the past.
Of the basketball arena that was even better attended. First time I recall seeing Montana, Theismann, TB and others all in one place. That’s the one where I saw Byron for the first time in years. Joe Yonto and John Ray were there and I shared your line with Ray about the ‘66 defense only giving up feet per carry.
The first similar event during the Kelly regime had Kelly admonishing the attendees for not reacting with enthusiasm to his speech. He ended with “we are going to have to fix this,” assuming there was something wrong with the audience rather than the audience being perplexed by his DMV worthy comments. A later event in the Kelly years was very sparsely attended. So it may have been less about lack of opportunity and more about lack of interest.
Eventually my invites got lost in the Mail, perhaps based on my posting here.
They only people I've heard say otherwise are self-absorbed prima donnas like Kuechenberg. Hell, Theismann is a self-absorbed prima donna, and he liked Weis