Weis was a great offensive coordinator for the Patriots (and he has three Super Bowl rings from a four-year span to prove it).  As a pro coach, I respect the guy a lot.  Hell, I wish the Fins had him instead of Dan Henning.

But college and pro ball are pretty dramatically different, especially given that Notre Dame isn't regionally positioned to do the kind of recruiting it really needs to do to be an elite team.  Best recruiting in that region is done in western Penn/eastern Ohio, around Pittsburgh.  But those kids are mostly growing up as Ohio State and Penn State fans (and Michigan to a lesser degree).

Sort of the reverse of what happened with Steve Spurrier.  Amazing college coach, but not a very good pro coach.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

There are maybe 4 or 5 quarterbacks in the country who could pull that off: Tim Tebow of Florida (mostly because Florida receivers can just flat beat anybody -- they're just too strong and too fast for a Stanford defense -- and Tebow can do enough to help them), Colt McCoy of Texas, Christian Ponder of Florida State, and perhaps a couple others.  Only because those guys have done similar work against top-rated defenses in the past and clearly have a nose for winning with time fighting against them.

I wouldn't even trust Alabama, which I think is the best team in the country, to pull it off, because their QB simply doesn't have the air attack needed ('Bama is more of a smash-mouth running team).

Even in that nigh-unfathomable scenario, I might still go for 7.  But with a shot at beating a team like Florida, I'd have to at least consider taking the field goal and leaving almost no time left.  One important question that would need to be answered: How many timeouts do I and the opposing team have?  If the opposing team has none, and I have one or two, that would make me lean that way, because I can then drain the clock without feeling too much pressure on my kicking game.

But again, only given the prospect of beating a high-flying, top-ranked offense whom I know would beat me down the field, and whom I figure I'll undoubtedly lose to in overtime.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

We wood heat and this is the first load we're burning through on a daily basis.  If I had to guess, based on a Mark I eyeball measure of how much is still stacked-up, about $44/week.  

No one could have predicted

We wuz robbed.

;-)

No one could have predicted