Thanks for posting. I was tired of viewing all of those 1978 yearbook photos of CW.
The Contrarian | Email | Homepage | 05.16.07 - 2:56 pm | #

Awesome.
Bullfrog | Email | Homepage | 05.16.07 - 3:18 pm | #

i think charlie ate charles
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 05.16.07 - 3:34 pm | #

charlie looks all smoked up!!! way 2 go chuck!
tom | Email | Homepage | 05.16.07 - 4:34 pm | #

It's funny how his speaking style and demeanor is essentially the same as it was 20 years ago.
Hal | Email | Homepage | 05.16.07 - 4:36 pm | #

That was awesome. I was wondering who the familiar face was going to be.. I was looking at the players and whatnot and then BOOM. Thanks!
Freddy | Email | Homepage | 05.16.07 - 4:48 pm | #

That shirt he is wearing is excellent. Kind of like the "This is Carolina Country" bumpersticker on the locker room in Rudy.
Freehawk | Email | Homepage | 05.16.07 - 4:54 pm | #

Why is John Elway passing himself off as our coach?
Robb | Email | Homepage | 05.16.07 - 5:09 pm | #

Even though I knew it would be Weis from the headline, the first thought that sprang into my mind after seeing the face was John Elway.
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 05.16.07 - 5:18 pm | #

Jeez, he was a natural even back then. This guy owns the camera.
NDDL99 | Email | Homepage | 05.16.07 - 5:54 pm | #

Charlie didn't sugar coat back then even for his alma mater: "well Notre Dame was one-dimensional, they didn't pass the ball, Miami could have one by a larger margin if it wasn't for turnovers, blah, blah, blah".

So I guess the trivia question that comes out of this is how much the Gamecocks lost to Miami by with multi-dimensional offense.
PZ | Email | Homepage | 05.16.07 - 6:14 pm | #

20 - 16 'Canes. Not too shabby by the Weis.
Chris | Email | Homepage | 05.16.07 - 7:02 pm | #

Miami rolled through the remainder of the regular season, ripping tenth-ranked Notre Dame (24-0) and surviving a scare from eighth-ranked South Carolina (20-16) to set up a matchup with top-ranked Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl Classic on New Year's Day.
Chris | Email | Homepage | 05.16.07 - 7:03 pm | #

I wonder if back then coaching at ND was part of his plan.
Tom | Email | Homepage | 05.16.07 - 8:18 pm | #

kind of a john elway-troy aikman mix imo...

seems like flat-top charlie used to be mop-top charles
nd30909 | Email | Homepage | 05.16.07 - 11:27 pm | #

Another great find by BGS.
As EDSBS says, the best writers in the bidness
jim masterson | Email | Homepage | 05.17.07 - 3:46 am | #

All the credit goes to tjnd88. He's the one who made the video and brought it to our attention
Pat | Email | Homepage | 05.17.07 - 8:51 am | #

I am your humble servant.
tjnd88 | Email | Homepage | 05.17.07 - 9:44 am | #

That was hilarious. . .like previously mentioned, talk about loyalty. Charlie absolutely no love to toward the Irish. Straight dissed Lou in the process! Ha!
Felipe | Email | Homepage | 05.17.07 - 10:53 am | #

anyone have a link to the whole game? this is one i have not watched
greg | Email | Homepage | 05.17.07 - 11:07 am | #

The segment posted is the only part of the game worth watching. Miami completely dominates, 27-0. But this is the game that started putting some doubts on Tim Brown's case for the Heisman, as Don McPherson's stock was rising fast at the end of the season with Syracuse. Turned out to be a false alarm, however, as the vote really wasn't close and Brown grabbed the trophy the following Saturday in NYC.
tjnd88 | Email | Homepage | 05.17.07 - 11:23 am | #

Just a technical commnet, the video is really great quality seeing how its from 20 years ago. Nice job to who ever ripped it. It would be fun to see some of the games from 88' if they are of these quality.
James | Email | Homepage | 05.17.07 - 1:08 pm | #

James,

The box set available from AE has 2 games from 88. The victory over Miami at ND and the Fiesta Bowl Victory over West Virginia. Both games are of the highest video quality.
Domer Dan | Email | Homepage | 05.17.07 - 1:31 pm | #

Most of my clips are of terrific quality after they're ripped and edited on my end. The problem is that after they're uploaded to YouTube, they convert the clips to a flash file that renders the clip blurry & pixelized ("blocky"). Luckily, I stumbled upon blip.tv, whose flash files are much cleaner and closer to my original.

You can check out a partial collection of the clips I'm hosting by blip at :

http://classicnotredame.blip.tv

I'll be adding the rest of my clips currently housed on YouTube there in the coming weeks, and adding some new (old) clips there after that.
tjnd88 | Email | Homepage | 05.17.07 - 1:57 pm | #

Charlie tried to get on Holtz's staff at one time, but there weren't any openings.
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 05.17.07 - 10:03 pm | #

I was at that 1987 game in the Orange Bowl. It was 24-0 but could easily have been 44-0. We were totally dominated. And yet, the following year, we started a 20+ game winning streak and won the title.

The Miami band would play right until our QB came to the line and would even sometimes be playing as he was trying to call cadence. Bush stuff. The Ibis deserved to be plucked.
Pangborn Violence | Email | Homepage | 05.18.07 - 12:02 am | #

I hate the Ibis.
Fighting Binny | Email | Homepage | 05.18.07 - 4:59 pm | #

Wow. I was 2 back then. I've probably put on 150lbs since then. Oh the jokes I could make.

Now I'll be graduating from ND. Thanks Charlie for two great years, and hopefully more to come. Ty, not so much.
Keenan | Email | Homepage | 05.19.07 - 1:37 am | #

Keenan,
My three years at ND coincided with Ty's. Oh to be there now!
24 hour | Email | Homepage | 05.19.07 - 10:28 am | #

Keenan and 24 hours,

You know nothing about pain.

True long suffering pain, chronic pain, insurmountable pain, red-hot flash in your pants pain, the pain of nails on the caulk board, with a red belly, and bamboo shoots under the finger nails pain. That pain is known only to those alive for ...81, 82, 83, 84 and 85.

Like being strapped to the front of a steam-driven locomotive heading down a 400-mile track with the assurance of catching every bug in your teeth with the complete and total knowledge of a concrete slab at the end of the line leading to your eventual demise … and praying for it.

I could give birth to a bowling ball through my navel without flinching after the slow moving debacle of the early 1980's.
yago | Email | Homepage | 05.19.07 - 5:24 pm | #

I could watch the Kinnon Tatum clip all day. "That's heart, that's 'want-to', and that's Defense." Here's to more o' that here than we've had hey.
indy | Email | Homepage | 05.19.07 - 11:38 pm | #

When are we playing Miami again? C'mon.
Heath | Email | Homepage | 05.20.07 - 11:25 am | #

Damn he's all skinny back then, nice clip!
fighting son of notre dame | Email | Homepage | 05.20.07 - 11:59 am | #